Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

I studied GCSE German via Distance Learning and today I've been exchanging emails with my tutor. She said that across the board, Unit 4 (Writing) seems to have been marked very harshly, as she was also surprised by my C grade. I was one mark off a B in writing and overall, 4 marks away from an A* grade. She said that I could consider a remark but I'm not so sure. I've never appealed any result before. I know it could go up or down but I'm well within an A so I don't think it could go down to a B, could it? What does the thread think?

Fantástico! I was on full UMS in Spanish until those pesky writings. (congrats also on your overall grades. )

Well, if you're quite a way over the A boundary, it's down to your budget, really. Have you gone over the grades and raw mark conversion table with a fine-tooth comb on the AQA converter, though? Work out how many raw marks you'd could lose before it became a B!

But I must admit, I thought having CA scripts remarked was practically impossible. I thought that for those to be marked again, the exam centre had to submit that subject's entire collection of scripts for re-moderation. For obvious reasons, not every candidate is going to be willing to risk it and give their consent. Were you the one and only GCSE Germanist?

I saw my German tutor today after I'd collected my results, and she said the same for her GCSE set.

While I was visiting the language department, I also endeared myself to the new Head of French, who's just joined the college (and whom I'd thus never met before- so I didn't realise she was a French teacher) as she overheard me explaining to my (German) tutor about how I hadn't really worked enough on my French CAs because I couldn't be bothered with French, and I regretted that.*

German tutor said, "Wash your mouth out Octo! This is the new head of French sitting next to me!"

So, at least my rampant prejudice won't come as a shock to the poor woman when AS French begins!

*If I'd thought the listening boundaries had the potential to be so low that I could get an A* there, I would have spent less time on TSR, and more time teaching myself the French passive tenses... For the first time in my life, my performance on written coursework dragged my exam marks down!

http://community.tes.co.uk/tes_modern_foreign_languages/f/28/t/675584.aspx?threadPi=1
http://community.tes.co.uk/tes_modern_foreign_languages/f/28.aspx

Many teachers are not happy.

I got an A* in Italian! And I got 100% in both the listening and reading exams
Well done everyone else on your fantastic grades!

How did they do that? *astonished*

with Gove's repugnant hands fettling the education system..

The French teacher is apparently pretty terrible. Otherwise, nobody gives a ****.

Was du sagst, ist gewiss richtig!
Man sagt "Machst du dich..." nicht sehr oft, aber es ist nicht falsch.
Aber doch scheint "Machen Sie sich..." mir mehr "popular" als "Machst du dich..."

I would say it definitely was incorrect - the top result for it on Google is your post on this thread!

The reason machen Sie sich... is more common would be because machen Sie is the imperative and sich is the dative reflexive particle of Sie - so it is the direct equivalent of mach dir, not machst du dich.

Aha! I own the incorrect version, that's just...ausgezeichnet-.-
This is all very grammar technical...typisch Deutsch But I suppose I already knew about "Ich mache mir viele Sorgen" so hmmm makes sense tehFrance...das war sehr nett von dir, mir helfen zu versuchen anyhoo are the Danes overworking unsere Ronove, oder kannst du es da ja aushalten?

Jeg vil gerne se, om du kan forstå det, hvis jeg snakker dansk til dig (selv hvis du bliver nødt til at bruge Google Translate).

Jeg havde fri i lidt over en uge inden jeg startede igen på arbejde denne uge, så mine stakkels fødder gør rigtig ondt lige nu. Jeg har nattevagt i morgen og dagen efter, så jeg bliver oppe og ser lidt fjernsyn lige nu, efter at have sovet da jeg kom hjem i dag. Jeg gik desværre glip af størstedelen af mine yndlingsprogrammer mens jeg sov, og der er ikke rigtig meget at vælge imellem klokken lort om natten.

Jeg vil gerne se, om du kan forstå det, hvis jeg snakker dansk til dig (selv hvis du bliver nødt til at bruge Google Translate).

Jeg havde fri i lidt over en uge inden jeg startede igen på arbejde denne uge, så mine stakkels fødder gør rigtig ondt lige nu. Jeg har nattevagt i morgen og dagen efter, så jeg bliver oppe og ser lidt fjernsyn lige nu, efter at have sovet da jeg kom hjem i dag. Jeg gik desværre glip af størstedelen af mine yndlingsprogrammer mens jeg sov, og der er ikke rigtig meget at vælge imellem klokken lort om natten.

Jeg vil gerne se, om du kan forstå det, hvis jeg snakker dansk til dig (selv hvis du bliver nødt til at bruge Google Translate).

Jeg havde fri i lidt over en uge inden jeg startede igen på arbejde denne uge, så mine stakkels fødder gør rigtig ondt lige nu. Jeg har nattevagt i morgen og dagen efter, så jeg bliver oppe og ser lidt fjernsyn lige nu, efter at have sovet da jeg kom hjem i dag. Jeg gik desværre glip af størstedelen af mine yndlingsprogrammer mens jeg sov, og der er ikke rigtig meget at vælge imellem klokken lort om natten.

This is the one of the most comprehensible posts via google translate so far in this thread! There was only one serious "WTF that's not what you say" bit in the whole English translation, and that one was still easily understandable!

This is the one of the most comprehensible posts via google translate so far in this thread! There was only one serious "WTF that's not what you say" bit in the whole English translation, and that one was still easily understandable!

Sorry for jumping in, but I just wanted to say that I understand most of it.

I put it through myself just now to see what it said. I love how it just completely misses out the o'clock in the (rather Danish) '**** o'clock/**** a.m.' so that last clause made absolutely no sense.