Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Oh So "jo" doesn't just indicate disagreement?

Nope. Though I am sitting here trying to work out what it does indicate and am struggling.

我也真的切盼去大学！我没去过曼彻斯特大学。

I sort of feel like I generally understand mal when I see it, but I don't dare use it. Andererseits verstehe ich aber ,,doch" nicht!

No one speak welsh ever again.

What happened?

How the **** do they expect us to write an essay on "Is it important to speak Welsh?"

The irony was my answer was yes, but written with English

I drew lovely pictures though

And a sob story.

What's the Welsh for "That's subjective"

don't anger me

I could genuinely get a U

Eeeey I won't be the worst person on the face of the planet then, only the 2nd worst

How the **** do they expect us to write an essay on "Is it important to speak Welsh?"

The irony was my answer was yes, but written with English

I drew lovely pictures though

And a sob story.

The absolutely most obvious essay question that you could get on the minority and threatened language that is Welsh and you couldn't at least prepare a little bit of an answer on the topic?!

Was I taught anything? No.

So I don't expect to be able to answer that question, I tried answering... Don't know, but I wrote my note at the bottom in English.

Do you mean you have lessons and the teacher never brought up the minority language 'issue' with you to work on? In that case, fair enough. It's normal to trust that your teacher will cover most bases and it sucks ass when you get a nasty surprise.

I understand that it's a tricky question for GCSE. I would struggle at that level as well. I don't know what your abilities are in it but I guess if it had been GCSE Spanish back when I was younger, I might have tried to say stuff about everyone speaking English and it being culturally important. I'd say more but I know I can't keep my higher level vocab out of it (which I would have been unlikely to have at GCSE). At least everyone else should struggle... right?

I didn't want a model answer or anything, just grammar covered and vocab, I had to teach myself everything and it was a waste of time.

So, not only did we not learn the topic, we didn't have any tenses or words, which I then taught myself, paid off a little, but vocab was the biggest issue.

I'd be able to answer it in French, but not in Welsh.

In our school, it's safe to say, no one has gotten higher than a B? Because people can copy the reading extracts and get marks, but schools where students are taught won't be affected. Plus those who take first and/or second language welsh have an advantage!

Hopefully, my coursework will bring it all up, I can speak welsh a lot more, spellings and mutations are hard to write though...

Sorry, rant over.

My highest scoring A-level (by a long way) was the Spanish I did in the space of 6 months (AS and A2). I feel you on the school letting you down thing! For my German A2 writing the three people in my class (incl me) got D, E, U, because the teacher completely missed the mark when she tried to prepare us for a new topic.