La Sociedad Española

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Mr. Jim

hahaha some hispanic guy on without a trace just went "get outta the way maricon!" to this other guy and i laughed and my parents were like "wha? what does that mean?" i left them in suspense :rolleyes:

Lmao I love it when that happens! I always look smugly at my mum whenever someone speaks Spanish on the tele. You should have seen me when we went to watch Volver!
Yes linguists are a very open minded bunch it would seem, which can only be good i spose. Quite a lot of females too. A language degree is pretty much a straight man's dream :rolleyes:

Reply 1583

Mr. Jim

oi paddo, what do you have to do for your TEFL course?

Reply 1584

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Mr. Jim

oi paddo, what do you have to do for your TEFL course?

Pfff buggered if I know! It's so embarassing when people ask me what certain things I do involve and I have nooooo idea. Like when I applied to IBM and people asked me what I'd be doing if I got the job, all I could do was make an indeterminate noise, shrug and run away :indiff:

Reply 1585

Mr. Jim

hehehe well it sounds useful whatever it is. tho methinks with it being how to teach english to foreigners the need to use foreign languages will be absent since those are the rules of being british. my english language teacher was given a class to teach and she can only speak english, i don't get what happens when they want to ask questions!

tho she did have some funny stories -

*thick scary russian accent* "loch ness monster. is real?"

*same thick scary russian accent* "what is difference between quilt and eiderdown?"

heh

Reply 1586

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Mr. Jim

hehehe well it sounds useful whatever it is. tho methinks with it being how to teach english to foreigners the need to use foreign languages will be absent since those are the rules of being british. my english language teacher was given a class to teach and she can only speak english, i don't get what happens when they want to ask questions!

tho she did have some funny stories -

*thick scary russian accent* "loch ness monster. is real?"

*same thick scary russian accent* "what is difference between quilt and eiderdown?"

heh

Lmao gotta love the thick scary Russian accent!
Well when I went to Shpayne on my Shpaynish course none of my teachers spoke English. I think the idea is immersion.
Mr Jim, can I ask a huuuuuge favour :redface:

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er, hyeeeeeeeeees...

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Mr. Jim

er, hyeeeeeeeeees...

Can you look at my PS? I need help (generally yes but specifically with UCAS) :redface:

Reply 1589

leannemarie

I'll look at it too if you want, not that you asked me, but hey, the offer's there!

Reply 1590

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leannemarie

I'll look at it too if you want not, that you asked me, but hey, the offer's there!

Fankoooo!

Reply 1591

Gael

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too many women doing languages. boo.

Reply 1592

brimstone

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My politics teacher is Tony Blair's former speech writer :eek:

He wrote the 'Education Education Education' speech :eek4:

And French is hard :frown:

Can't understand a word the teacher says :frown:

I'm gonna fail :frown:

Reply 1593

leannemarie

brimstone

My politics teacher is Tony Blair's former speech writer :eek:

He wrote the 'Education Education Education' speech :eek4:

And French is hard :frown:

Can't understand a word the teacher says :frown:

I'm gonna fail :frown:

The idea isn't to understand, it's to nod and smile :wink:

Reply 1594

Ronove

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leannemarie

The idea isn't to understand, it's to nod and smile :wink:

This really isn't a joke. Not for people at my school anyway.
Pretend you're amazing in class, understanding every word the teacher says, chuckle knowingly at what seem like jokes... then run home and learn some flashy vocab to make the teacher think you're better than you are and therefore stop worrying and getting cross. You may even get away with ignoring homework if you pull it off well enough.
:p:

Reply 1595

leannemarie

Well I always got the impression that the idea wasn't to understand every word, just enough to know what was going on. Certainly the case with AS French when we had a huge range of ability but the teacher stopped a lot to explain if people didn't get the grammar etc. A2 was a lot better though.

Reply 1596

tbtommyb

My Spanish teachers speak really basic Spanish. I tried to keep up my Spanish over the holidays, and everyone else basically forgot everything, so the first few lessons have been rather boring. And then the teacher asks a really simple question, and absolutely no-one answers. It's not because they don't know, because we complain about everyone else doing it. I answer sometimes but then I don't want people to think I'm taking over or something so I keep quiet the rest. My class needs to talk more...

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