Do you find spanish GCSE dificult???

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i'm spanish and i've been reading some GCSE exams, and they are pretty easy , i mean , obviuosly if it is your first lenguage isn't difficult at all , but I just wanted to know if you find spanish hard to learn, it has a lot of strange verbs, which can easily be misunderstood, and verbs have a lot of forms, "preterito imperfecto" "subjuntivo" , and how are you speaking?? you can find a lot of sounds that cannot be found in english , like the spanish "j" ,

xx

Reply 1

Matty919

15

Aye aye aye, mi burro.

Reply 2

Miss Mary

14

seeubrotha

i'm spanish and i've been reading some GCSE exams, and they are pretty easy , i mean , obviuosly if it is your first lenguage isn't difficult at all , but I just wanted to know if you find spanish hard to learn, it has a lot of strange verbs, which can easily be misunderstood, and verbs have a lot of forms, "preterito imperfecto" "subjuntivo" , and how are you speaking?? you can find a lot of sounds that cannot be found in english , like the spanish "j" ,

xx

Your Spanish may be good, but your English is not. :frown:

Reply 3

Doublereedfreak

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Miss Mary

Your Spanish may be good, but your English is not. :frown:

Burnnnnnn.

Reply 4

Matt123456

spanish was not my first language but after studying it for 5 years i ended up with an A but my first language to which i didn't study for or go to lessons for and just attended the exam i got a b. Now a year later i cannot speak a word of either.

Reply 5

TheMeister

15

No, supongo es fácil.

Reply 6

_Collo

4

I did as little work as I could get away with, and did as little concentrating in classes as I could - I'm expecting an A.. possibly a B.
Spanish GCSE: easy & boring.

Reply 7

ma2k5

14

I found it piss easy, without revision managed to still get a B (It would be an A if it wasn't for, the random subject placings, so had to do both french and spanish together and man does it get confusing in the exams - which word was it again etc -_-, oh to add to humour my predicted A in French ended up with a C, half of what I said/wrote was Spanish :angry:

)

Reply 8

Mrs Matt Bellamy

9

I do CCEA so i got my results yesterday.. and i got an A* in Spanish! That was my biggest suprise cos i was awful at it and *********** my way through both the listening and reading.. taking the "well i'll tick this box.. theres a 1/4 chance its right!" .. And 9 people in my class got A*s with a teacher that wasnt there for half a year. :biggrin:

So what do i think of gcse spanish?... a dossss

Reply 9

ShortyGetLow

Yeah it was pretty easy, as long as you know what you're looking out for in the answer you'll be fine.

I got a B, but cant speak it much now :')

Reply 10

BillyMarsh

10

I studied it for 1 school year and got an A* at IGCSE level.

But in doing this I studied in pretty much every free period I had, learning verb changes, idioms and non-English sentence structures.

Providing you can use the present, the preterite and one future you should do well, however if you want to do very well you will need perhaps the imperfect, a subjunctive and more than one future (e.g. 'voy a ...').

Don't over complicate things though, just think back to simple English when writing and then develop it! (In Spanish of course!)

EDIT: Learn adjectives and synonyms too!

Reply 11

lil_miss_rapunzel

1

I really enjoyed Spanish GCSE and I didn't find the writing or reading too difficult, but I did have some issues with the listening and speaking. However, I just completed my Spanish AS-level and, although it was still enjoyable, the level of diffculty just rocketed.

Reply 12

Basma

I found it very easy, but maybe because I have a good understanding of Arabic...

Reply 13

xo<3_Sammie

3

I found my Spanish GCSE really quite easy; the exam board we did for languages is apparently the easiest one, and we did coursework (where we could use dictionaries and verb tables), so we didn't even have to do a writing "exam". I knew barely any grammar, memorised some answers and a few useful role-play phrases for my speaking, and came out of it with an A*.

That said, I didn't find it any easier than I found French. I think our course was just really easy though, it depends what board you're doing. I remember we did a past paper from another board as revision and it was alot harder.

Reply 14

BeckyIsOptimistic

I didn't find it that difficult - I only did it for 2 years so there was a lot to cram in. It was definitely easier than French & German which I'd been studying since yr7.
Although the listening is never easy as such

Reply 15

seeubrotha

OP

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Miss Mary

Your Spanish may be good, but your English is not. :frown:

I'm not native , so I can have as many mistakes as i want to. :wink:

Reply 16

laura6024

1

i did it last year in year 10 and got A* and got a letter to say my result was top 10 in the country out of over 15000 ppl :yep:

, it was very easy maybe its cus i had a nice teacher and i just used common sense in the exam with edexcel

Reply 17

beboo

Hey - now I feel rlly lame.

Im in my second year of spanish gcse and am deffo struggling

I just cant remember stuff like other people can, for example, I have to take verb endings and verbs home and go over and over them to try and learn them. Then you have people in my class who remember everything the first time they hear it.

Any tips for remembering verb endings and the correct way to conjugate verbs (radical changing verbs and reflexive verbs practically make me suicidal!) :wink:

thnx

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