[ME RASHED]

I think i got an DEU

54 marks in D1
30 marks in M1
35 marks in fp1

what grade would that be, using today grade boundary

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by ME RASHED)
I think i got an DEU

54 marks in D1
30 marks in M1
35 marks in fp1

what grade would that be, using today grade boundary

How did you land here?
Are these raw marks or ums marks?
UMS marks often change, so there is no way of knowing what your marks will equivelate to...you might surprise your self in August

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by Emely)
Wow, dat is echt heel knap! Zelfs ik heb nog nooit een A gehaald voor Nederlands hier. Het is voor mij mijn moedertaal en zelfs nog maak ik soms grammaticale fouten Leuk dat je in Rotterdam gewoond hebt! Daar ben ik zelf geboren, maar woon er al 18 jaar niet meer helaas..Ik ga Behavioural Science doen straks

Ohhh neee! Een GCSE Dutch toets is niet vergelijkbaar met de taal toetsen in Nederland! Want de eerste is zeer simpel! Of ben jij naar Engeland verhuist ofzo? En wow dat klinkt interessant!

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by constantmeowage)
It's not that scary. Dutch sometimes scares me because it's apparently so similar to German yet when I try to read it, I'm kinda having breathing problems with either the amount of vowels or the amount of Gs. And I find it so hard to listen to as well. I can't actually make out any individual words. o.o


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!!! pronounciation is said to be what most dutch learners struggle with! I'm so happy there wasn't an oral element in A-level Dutch, that would have tut mir leid sehr

[Dee Leigh]

(Original post by thatitootoo)
Much of a language fanatic? Didn't you do French for GCSE?
Igbo? Are you on about the language spoken in some parts of Nigeria?
It seems like a hard language to get resources for, but i suppose you've got 2 live resources available to you..in your case
Any particular reason for wanting to learn Jap/Kor?

Lol I am not much of a language fanatic...I find I am really not good at languages :/

I only did Spanish at GCSE.

Yeah I'm talking about the language spoken in some parts in Nigeria...

I nearly learned Japanese but had to move schools...

[Dee Leigh]

(Original post by thatitootoo)
Now & where you be going school' !?
Or better even...where these people in your school be coming from?

I'm not at school anymore...

A lot of people at my school are Asian...

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by Dee Leigh)
I'm not at school anymore...

A lot of people at my school are Asian...

Interesting stuff! I can understand the 'Bini' language of Nigeria..the small one spoken in 'Edo state' I think Igbo is closer to this language than yoruba

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by Kya)
Got my Arabic A2 exam in 45 minutes.
A lot of people think it's an easy/cheat A level to do, but a lot of people underestimate the Arabic language.
It is far more complicated than English, French, German, the usual.
Arabic also varies from country to country. E.g. Spoken Arabic in my parents original country - Lebanon, differs greatly to the Arabic spoken in Saudi or Egypt for example.
Then, within the exam you only have the main formal arabic which isn't used or spoken in any country...
I can speak Lebanese Arabic to an extent, but by no means is reading, writing & translating easy
The fact that the Edexcel Arabic examiners have the brain the size of a pea doesn't help either.

"Do you think reading is an old/outdated hobby? Write 250-350 words on this."

HOW DID YOU FIND IT? and how dull was the essay question this time around?
I agree that Arabic is much harder than most languages! it's a fact actually...I remember reading that Arabic is a top tier 'category 5' language...along with the Chinese languages, Japanese & Korean! (88 weeks worth of intensive study is needed to become proficient)
On the same table French & German were listed as 'category 1' with a suggested study period of 23 weeks! :O



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[Kya]

(Original post by thatitootoo)
HOW DID YOU FIND IT? and how dull was the essay question this time around?
I agree that Arabic is much harder than most languages! it's a fact actually...I remember reading that Arabic is a top tier 'category 5' language...along with the Chinese languages, Japanese & Korean! (88 weeks worth of intensive study is needed to become proficient)
On the same table French & German were listed as 'category 1' with a suggested study period of 23 weeks! :O



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I'm not sure how I found it lol, I think I answered everything right, but I'm always paranoid haha. I was even paranoid at AS and GCSE where I did fine...
I also agree about Arabic being much tougher than other languages.
My mates think I do it because it's an easy A level for me, however they can't acknowledge that spoken arabic is TOTALLY different to fus7a... and that Arabic grammar and stuff is far more complex than French or German :/
Even my invigilator today came to me before the exam and said - the exam is 3 hours long, but since Arabic is your native language you'll probably finish before hand, so just put your hand up and we'll let you out - and then I was like... no, English is my first language...
Everyone I know seems to think Arabic is some sort of cheap cheating A level I do... they fail to acknowledge how important it really is...

As for the essay questions, I hope whoever writes them dies a terrible, terrible death.

[Gaffel]

(Original post by thatitootoo)
Ohhh neee! Een GCSE Dutch toets is niet vergelijkbaar met de taal toetsen in Nederland! Want de eerste is zeer simpel! Of ben jij naar Engeland verhuist ofzo? En wow dat klinkt interessant!

Haha jammer dat de toetsen hier in Nederland niet zo makkelijk zijn
Nee, ik woon nu nog gewoon in Nederland, maar verhuis straks voor de studie naar Dundee.

[shahinbudd]

(Original post by ForeverFitzwilliam)
I did Italian. Which is fairly uncommon. It isn't my mother tongue. I got an A before A*s were invented.

Languages that are offered at A level are:
French
Spanish
German
Latin
Punjabi
Bengali
Modern Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew
Russian
Persian
Welsh
Turkish
Gujarati
Dutch
Irish
Japanese
Latin
Italian
Arabic
Cantonese
Cornish
Greek (Modern)
Greek (Ancient)
Hindi
Mandarin
Polish
Portugese
Somali
Swedish
Tamil
Urdu
Yoruba

At least thats what comes up on the wjec, edexcel, ocr and aqa websites.

This year I'm looking to do japanese a level just as an as because I'm already starting my second year, but i haven't found anyone doing it so that i know how it is, I'm doing it because i want to do korean and japanese at uni, i would korean as well if i could

[dops]

i did modern greek A-level, but i lived in greece for 3 years when i was younger so had a bit of an advantage! but i didnt go to any lessons, just went to the exam so only just got an A. but nobody else at my school is doing any other uncommon language just french and spanish,

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by shahinbudd)
This year I'm looking to do japanese a level just as an as because I'm already starting my second year, but i haven't found anyone doing it so that i know how it is, I'm doing it because i want to do korean and japanese at uni, i would korean as well if i could

Interesting choice! Yeah Korean definitely wasn't on that list you quoted! Though learning Japanese might also aid you with your Korean studies, as I undestand the two languages have some structual similarities? Well anyway I can see why you havn't found many others, not many people dare to pick up a new language at A-level, let alone a language as challenging as Japanese! Are you really just picking it up from scratch or have you perhaps accumulated some knowledge of Japanese over time?

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by dops)
i did modern greek A-level, but i lived in greece for 3 years when i was younger so had a bit of an advantage! but i didnt go to any lessons, just went to the exam so only just got an A. but nobody else at my school is doing any other uncommon language just french and spanish,

an A!!! That's pretty impressive considering you only lived in Greece for 3 years! so unless you started learning how to read and write from a young age & you kept on practising the language ever since...I would question you having any sort of advantage Oh that's just typical...I guess Spanish is beating German by popularity! What other subjects did you do btw?

[Pi!]

I want to do A-level Cornish now.

[dops]

(Original post by thatitootoo)
an A!!! That's pretty impressive considering you only lived in Greece for 3 years! so unless you started learning how to read and write from a young age & you kept on practising the language ever since...I would question you having any sort of advantage Oh that's just typical...I guess Spanish is beating German by popularity! What other subjects did you do btw?

I definitely kept practising after i moved back to england so that definitely helped! i do chemistry, french, maths and biology, just in the middle of exams atm and not doing too well i think but oh well! (i did the modern greek A-level in a year last year to get it out of the way) how bout you? how is the dutch going? it sounds so hard!

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by Pi!)
I want to do A-level Cornish now.

lolol it sounds hot innit' ! But we can't have A-level 'welsh second language; just doesn't have that sexy cornish spark.

(Original post by dops)
I definitely kept practising after i moved back to england so that definitely helped! i do chemistry, french, maths and biology, just in the middle of exams atm and not doing too well i think but oh well! (i did the modern greek A-level in a year last year to get it out of the way) how bout you? how is the dutch going? it sounds so hard!

Ohhhhh I see! wow that does sound pretty intensive you must be really smart! Are you in year 12 or 13? Ahh so you never even did the GCSE? I had my last A2 exam 2 weeks ago, I found the AS almost easy but in contrast I found the A2 rather challenging! Were you kind of expecting to get an A after your last exam, or did it come as a total shock to you?

[VETwannabe]

(Original post by thatitootoo)
Arabic along with Russian seems to be the most popular 'obscure' A-level language choices! What dialect was your native? and were you actually born there or is it just your mother tongue language?

I completely agree with you, it tends to be only 'specialist language colleges' who dare offer anything other than the 'Big 3' but there arent enough Dutch & Persian teachers to go around, etc, etc

i'm an iraqi, english, british kid (hmm... what other titles can i put?)
i was born in the uk and have lived the majority of my life in the uk exept for 3 years where i lived in dubai - that was more recent. but i'm lucky to have parents that speak to me in arabic and a mum who speaks hardly any english at all. arabic is my mother tongue even though my english is stronger
but also i'm really thankful that i lived in dubai for 3 years before i came back and did my gcse's. my arabic got really good when i studied it over there and when i came back to england i took my gcse arabic and then did my A level. the reason i'm lucky is because out of the arabic community of family friends i have in our city, the kids in my family i.e. me and my siblings, were the only kids to live in an arabic country recently so our arabic had improved whilst all the other kids had quite weak arabic mainly based on their dialect. and everyone knows that if you can only speak and write in your dialect and can't use 'grammatically correct' language, then generally (and this doesn't apply to all people or languages) you're pretty much screwed in terms of A level or, to put it less harshly, will find it difficult to get that A or A*.
i have a family friend younger than me who started his arabic A level a year before i did and bless him, he got a C in his AS and resat it again only to get another C. i feel really bad for him though because he deserves a better grade. so yeah i'm the only one to get an A* in our community (i got told that i'd even get put in the newspaper because i finished it during my AS year as well)

cool, i din't know many people spoke persian

[dops]

(Original post by thatitootoo)
lolol it sounds hot innit' ! But we can't have A-level 'welsh second language; just doesn't have that sexy cornish spark.



Ohhhhh I see! wow that does sound pretty intensive you must be really smart! Are you in year 12 or 13? Ahh so you never even did the GCSE? I had my last A2 exam 2 weeks ago, I found the AS almost easy but in contrast I found the A2 rather challenging! Were you kind of expecting to get an A after your last exam, or did it come as a total shock to you?

im in year 13, no im really not clever just work hard! I was really hoping for an A, but thought i had messed up the essay so was really happy when i found out! Im quite worried about french next week cant seem to get the hang of translations but just want to get them done with I only have 4 left (i started with 11 exams as i was retaking many!) oh well! I hope yours all went well

[thatitootoo]

(Original post by VETwannabe)
i'm an iraqi, english, british kid (hmm... what other titles can i put?)
i was born in the uk and have lived the majority of my life in the uk exept for 3 years where i lived in dubai - that was more recent. but i'm lucky to have parents that speak to me in arabic and a mum who speaks hardly any english at all. arabic is my mother tongue even though my english is stronger
but also i'm really thankful that i lived in dubai for 3 years before i came back and did my gcse's. my arabic got really good when i studied it over there and when i came back to england i took my gcse arabic and then did my A level. the reason i'm lucky is because out of the arabic community of family friends i have in our city, the kids in my family i.e. me and my siblings, were the only kids to live in an arabic country recently so our arabic had improved whilst all the other kids had quite weak arabic mainly based on their dialect. and everyone knows that if you can only speak and write in your dialect and can't use 'grammatically correct' language, then generally (and this doesn't apply to all people or languages) you're pretty much screwed in terms of A level or, to put it less harshly, will find it difficult to get that A or A*.
i have a family friend younger than me who started his arabic A level a year before i did and bless him, he got a C in his AS and resat it again only to get another C. i feel really bad for him though because he deserves a better grade. so yeah i'm the only one to get an A* in our community (i got told that i'd even get put in the newspaper because i finished it during my AS year as well)

cool, i din't know many people spoke persian

Cool story bro! Interesting! So you're saying you moved to Dubai in year 8 and came back in year 11? I'm sure you're arabic developed alot! Though how did you end up performinng in the core subjects, or were you made familliar with the British curiculum in Dubai? Aww, I do feel for those other guys, they know Arabic wel,l but their A-level exams / results will have other people believe that the Arabic they know is infact mediocer at best! :/ and it isn't even just correct use of language...ya'll expected to know so many societal/cultural related information as well to achieve higher than a C! and for an A* you need to come up with things 'outside the box' so I guess, A-level languages don't give anyone an easy ride...well done on getting the A*.