IB Survivor Society

How many languages can you speak, HMS? And what's your first language? :smile:

Bilingual people fascinate me - one day I plan to be one of them.

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IBblonde

I love melbourne weather... it keeps life interesting. Plus its an excuse to buy more clothes and carry an enormous bag with me everywhere.
What school are you at, Simarik, if you dont mind me asking?

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simarik

no not at all, well currently I attend no school, just finished the IB and waiting for first round offers on Tuesdays, but I attended the Australian International Academy...

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Caitlin

How many languages can you speak, HMS? And what's your first language? Bilingual people fascinate me - one day I plan to be one of them

I speak Vietnamese and English fluently though I think 'fluent' in Vietnamese is somewhat pushing it :biggrin:

. Despite it being my mother tongue and my living in VN for most of my life, I am much much much more comfortable in English in most situations. that's results of my living overseas for 2 years and spending most of my school life in english speaking school. I can speak Vietnamese obviously but there are a lot of situation where I express myself better in English...though there are situations where its vice versa as well.

So really my first language is Vietnamese, but in IGCSE I did First Lang English and chose English A1 instead of Viet A1.

I can speak some French (enough to get a 6 at IB Lang B anyway) but right now after not speaking any French for about 8 months I dont know whether it's still up to par. My French writing is better than my speaking.

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That's so cool that you can speak Vietnamese fluently! I'm going to do French when I get to university, so hopefully by the end of uni I'll be fluent in it, if not before. I also want to learn Italian and Spanish at some point - shouldn't be too hard after having done French. :biggrin:

I love languages so much; I would have done a third one ab initio if my school could have timetabled it. :rolleyes:

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Caitlin

That's so cool that you can speak Vietnamese fluently!

lol the coolness if relative I think. consideing I am Viet it would be rather disconcerting if I didn't speak the language...

I want to learn Chinese...I have some very meagre knowledge of the language from watching Chinese dramas but I want to really be able to speak and read it. I would had loved to do Mandarin Ab Intio if my school offered it.

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Yeah, I guess you're right... Well then, I find it cool that you can speak English! :p:

It's great that you're bilingual in any case.

As for Mandarin, surely that would be a really hard language to do ab initio. The first year exams would just be comprised of the student reciting the alphabet or something... :s-smilie:

I've never been particularly good at Asian languages - I did Japanese for 9 years, and now I don't remember a word of it. Mind you, I wasn't particularly motivated to learn another language up until last year when I went to France, so I guess it helps if you're enthusiastic.

On another note, if you're reading this Deus - please accept me into this soc! :frown:

I'm afraid I've been using this thread for illegal conversation; I'm not actually a member yet. :eek:

I know, it's scandalous.

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haha did you apply yet? he'd add you if you did.

I want to learn Mandarin because Im totally obsessed with Chinese culture and dramas...it would be much easier for me to know Chinese to see the dramas when they come instead of having to wait for them to be dubbed in Viet which takes a long time. there isnt an alphabet per se, but I agree that hte amount you need to know and learn from scratch for Mand B would be rather a lot... what with having to learn all the characters AND their pinyin...

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I applied two days ago, but still no acceptance. I guess he's just too busy finishing his Psychology book. *bows down in reverence* :adore:

Anywho, I'm going to go skipping off to bed now because it's 2:30 in the morning. Well actually, I'm going to turn my laptop off and rearrange myself in a horizontal position, because I'm already in bed. Bless you, wireless internet. :smile:

'Night all!

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I'm in bed with a laptop as well. yes, the world's greatest invention = wirelessi internet lol... Night

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nickjohnson

I'm Nick and I'm an IB survivor (kinda). Let's just say that if the IB were a shipwreck I wouldn't be with the people in the lifeboats. I'd be one of the guys clinging to planks of wood, half-conscious, with sharks circling around him.

i.e. I'm on borrowed time here. My attendance is close to the limit (of not getting the diploma), I suck at math and I'm lazy as hell so my weekly average of actually working and studying is about 30 minutes to an hour max.

It's all good though, because somehow my predicted grade has ended up being 38/39 (with bonus points)... I just hope I don't end up failing because of math: I heard that if you get less than 4 in an exam you fail the diploma.

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~Lc~

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yea you do.. what are ur subjects? and how did u manage a 37-39 predicteced? :eek:

I work about minimum 2-3 hours a day and my predicted is a 34! (without bonus points)!!!

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