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Hit me with everything you know about German at uni! (please)

I've applied for History and German at King's, Oxford, Durham, Nottingham, Birmingham, and Manchester. Can anyone give me a general idea of what studying German at degree level is like? If you study German, are you enjoying it? What do you enjoy most/least? Is it a step up from A level? etc. Also if you've got any uni specific info, that's great too :redface:
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Nel48
I've just started German and Psychology at Durham. In the modules ive chosen which are both language ones, theres 2 tutorials per week per module but youll have a history and culture one too with about 12-13 of us in in which were going through grammar. At the minute were going through the basics so it's not a big jump from A-Level as yet but im sure it'll get harder as it has to to progress.

Theres not much to know really
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Fleece
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I'm in my second year at Leeds doing German and I also did a year at Nottingham doing German too.

I am enjoying now I'm at Leeds, yes.

First year wasn't that big a step up from A Level to be honest, but second year it has increased in difficulty.

To be honest, I hate most of my modules. The only one I really like is Core Language, where we get an hour's lecture on grammar, and then 2 hours seminar where we talk and stuff. Those are fun.

What I don't like, is having to learn about bloody gender and cultural representation from 1871 in Germany. I want to learn German, not that crap :frown:

That's about it really.
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TakeshiFan
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Thanks for your replies! Fleece, just wondering - what was wrong with Nottingham?
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Fleece
15
Was crap in terms of german language.
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Crap... in what way?
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Fleece
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We didn't get much time to speak German and just the overall quality of the course was rubbish I thought. It was all in English, apart from one hour in German, which I thought defeated the point a bit.
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TakeshiFan
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aahhhh... doesn't sound good. where else did you apply? sorry for being nosy
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Fleece
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First time round, St Andrews, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds and somewhere else, can't really remember, was about 4 years ago haha.

Second time round just applied to Leeds.

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