Spanish A Level?
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Spanish A Level?Would I be committing social suicide by taking it? If you enjoy it and you are good at it, would I succeed? Difficulties about the course? Would be doing AQA i think.
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No, I don't think so - I think the way one should study it is different from other A Levels, in that you're focussing on different things instead of gaining facts, which does mean constant revision throughout the year rather than revising it all when you get towards the middle/end of the module. But this doesn't necessarily mean social suicide, I don't think you don't need to spend much more time a week on it than other A Levels, you just need to have a passion, and you will do much better than those who do not.
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Because Spain is the only country in the world that speaks Spanish...(Original post by Jam')
Spanish economy is ****ed..do german
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Re: Spanish A Level?Or the the many other South American emerging economies which are set to become powerful in the next few years.(Original post by Jam')
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Re: Spanish A Level?I don't think you would be committing social suicide if you studied Spanish at A level. I studied AQA Spanish and didn't really commit social suicide. I have actually met a lot of new and lovely people, I have learned interesting facts and watched insightful films thanks to learning Spanish. You can read articles in Spanish about a subject you love, meet new people online and chat on Skype with them and listen to Spanish radio to improve your Spanish. I loved revising for Spanish because it really didn't seem like revising(Original post by LordFishlock)
Would I be committing social suicide by taking it? If you enjoy it and you are good at it, would I succeed? Difficulties about the course? Would be doing AQA i think.
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One difficulty I found about the course was that you have constantly work throughout the year (as another person has said) and the speaking element of the A level was another difficulty for me because I'm a person who prefers the written element. Some pieces of grammar got me mad because I kept forgetting to implement them.
You have to put in the hard work too. You can't succeed in it if just by being good at it and liking it. My friend got an A* at GCSE level and loves the language and it is obviously good at it and got a C at AS level whereas another student got an A* at GCSE level and got an A at AS level because she put in the hard work. My friend really had what it took to get an A, but she didn't put in the hard work. -
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I do OCR, just did AS exam this may, the school that I go to is changing to AQA this sept however if i still have to do OCR at A2 for obvious reasons, we did a past paper for aqa & myself & the rest of my class, found it so much easier than OCR. I got a B at gcse Spanish so not the best grade, theres only 6 of us in my class some people got A* to B like me. You do have up work, grammar & especially the oral & vocab! But I prefer it way more than gcse there is a definite step up which anyone else who's doing/ done it will probs say too.(Original post by Sem193)
I don't think you would be committing social suicide if you studied Spanish at A level. I studied AQA Spanish and didn't really commit social suicide. I have actually met a lot of new and lovely people, I have learned interesting facts and watched insightful films thanks to learning Spanish. You can read articles in Spanish about a subject you love, meet new people online and chat on Skype with them and listen to Spanish radio to improve your Spanish. I loved revising for Spanish because it really didn't seem like revising
One difficulty I found about the course was that you have constantly work throughout the year (as another person has said) and the speaking element of the A level was another difficulty for me because I'm a person who prefers the written element. Some pieces of grammar got me mad because I kept forgetting to implement them.
You have to put in the hard work too. You can't succeed in it if just by being good at it and liking it. My friend got an A* at GCSE level and loves the language and it is obviously good at it and got a C at AS level whereas another student got an A* at GCSE level and got an A at AS level because she put in the hard work. My friend really had what it took to get an A, but she didn't put in the hard work.
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Plus the A Level (well, more the A2 side) covers topics people actually care about, and don't insult your intelligence like half the AS course and the entire GCSE course. Although it gets juicy at the end of AS with relationships and marriage and things (provided your on AQA).
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Yeah I have heard the AS and A level isn't all just about the language but also about culture and Spain as a country. I just neee to see if I get an A* at GCSE. :-P.(Original post by constantmeowage)
Plus the A Level (well, more the A2 side) covers topics people actually care about, and don't insult your intelligence like half the AS course and the entire GCSE course. Although it gets juicy at the end of AS with relationships and marriage and things (provided your on AQA).
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Re: Spanish A Level?I enjoyed learning the language and would do the a-level again, although the A2 year is heavily focused on culture, literature and society which to be honest I found a little boring! But I know plenty of people who really enjoyed it!
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Re: Spanish A Level?Hi, I did German AQA at AS-level, and am continuing it at A2. Here's a post I wrote about languages (it all applies equally to Spanish as it does to any A-level language).(Original post by LordFishlock)
Would I be committing social suicide by taking it? If you enjoy it and you are good at it, would I succeed? Difficulties about the course? Would be doing AQA i think.
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