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Personal Narrative: My School Brought Back Spanish In High School

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In 8th grade, my school brought back Spanish after not having it as part of the curriculum for several years. A lot of my classmates including myself didn’t do too well and I remembered one of my friends asked our homeroom teacher to come in to observe Spanish class. I just couldn’t grasp the language. Our school year was divided into trimesters. I got a D in Spanish in the second trimester. When the time came for me to sign up for my freshman year classes, I signed up for Japanese as my foreign language. I think I first heard about it from a student that was a freshman at the time. Little did I know what was going to happen my sophomore year.

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