LEAP Programme (Languages)

I've done Further Science French, Advanced Science French, and Beginners' German, all through LEAP :smile:

What you do on a LEAP course depends on the level you're studying at... what were you thinking of doing?

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Anatheme

Beginners' Portuguese. I'll read Russian and ab initio Arabic next year and after dropping Italian, I really want to learn another romance language just to balance the weirdness of my combination, lol.

Well, my german course has been fairly simple - we follow a textbook, and are expecteded to learn the vocabulary used in it. Sometimes we do exercises from the book in class, sometimes the teacher provides us with other exercises, sometimes we do other activities, but all fairy simple ones. We get a little homework each week (which I don't do :flute:

). I've been surprised by the lack of emphasis on self-study and practise, but perhaps that's indicative of the fact that a beginners' course should be dippable-into by people who aren't so enthused about languages as me :redface:

Needless to say, my French teacher was a bugbear about the fact that he didn't think we did enough work, and had a good trick of setting us mahoosive presentations to prepare just as my other deadlines were hitting hard :biggrin:

I'd totally recommend it though :smile:

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OhNO!

I would love to do Polish, or maybe pick up French again.

I'd never heard about this programme, but I'm really interested in it - thanks!

Reply 5

Threshers_Flail

Yeah i was reading up on this and was thinking of doing the beginner's Spanish course. Obviously ill be concentrating on my own course first, so what i want to know is are the teachers sympathetic to this as i don't want to get too bogged down.

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-G-a-v-

I'm tempted to take up French next year. Not sure if I'll be able to fit it in to my timetable though as I don't get any option modules next semester.

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I was also interested in this - to study French. I have no formal qualification in languages nor is it related to my degree - would this matter?

Reply 8

OnlyMe!

I was also interested in this - to study French. I have no formal qualification in languages nor is it related to my degree - would this matter?

Nope

Have you studied it at all before?

Reply 9

Ana

Nope

Have you studied it at all before?

Yes, 3 years at school. Although I can't remember anything useful - just stuff like ordering food (mostly foods which I dislike), expressing weird fetishes and such. Although I guess I could try a bit of self-teach over the summer... :smile:

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OnlyMe!

expressing weird fetishes and such

Consider my mind fully boggled till it can boggle no more :p:

S'up to you whether you'd feel more confortable in the beginner's or intermediate. If you start with the intermediate and find it's too hard, you should be able to transfer down :smile:

Sounds like you'd be a beginner, but if you do some revision, you could cope with intermediate I expect.

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Ana

Consider my mind fully boggled till it can boggle no more :p:

S'up to you whether you'd feel more confortable in the beginner's or intermediate. If you start with the intermediate and find it's too hard, you should be able to transfer down :smile:

Sounds like you'd be a beginner, but if you do some revision, you could cope with intermediate I expect.

Just to clarify - not my fetishes - just phrases people in my French class used to say...

I'd probably start with beginners but it depends how well I progress over the summer. I don't have to register/pay 'til September, right?

It's going to hurt paying out of my own money though :puppyeyes:

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Ittoqqooorrtormitt

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I think it's only 2nd year on some degrees that have "elective" modules? (Maybe also 3rd). Anyway next year I might do the Advanced German (for those who've done German to full A-level) but I'm afraid I've feel like I've forgotten rather a lot (grammar wise, vocab is still there :redface:

).

I just don't know whether it would look good to employers if I did do the Advanced German - I mean, could I say "Hey, look at my uni transcript, I did an Advanced German course and kept up my German skills!!" ...

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OnlyMe!

I don't have to register/pay 'til September, right?

That's right :smile:

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Ana

That's right :smile:

Ah right, thanks for your help! :smile:

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Threshers_Flail

Can anyone give me any info into how much it'll cost?

Thanks Anatheme.

I love languages, learned French, German, Russian and Japanese at school until science took over. I intended to keep on a language at uni but i've found most of my time is taken up by physics. Feel i've missed the boat though with it all, do you think it'd be possible to start one of these when i'm going into my third year?

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