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Kumiko-Misaki

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:46 pm


The school program that teaches Chinese is really annoying me. Sometimes I regret switching from Japanese to Chinese.
PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:07 pm


School's language programs suck. You wanna learn a language, you gotta do it yourself.

By which I mean take the initiative to learn on your own in better ways, because the school alone more often than not won't get you aywhere.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:34 pm


What do you guys mean by school programs? Do you just mean the lessons?

Although the pace is rather slow, I quite like it sometimes. Going at quite a leisurely pace, and being tested regularly, it makes a nice change from having to plan and schedule your own 'lessons'. It's all free too, so all those resources don't have to come out of your own pocket.

That being said, schools don't exactly provide a HUGE variety of different lessons, but I say if there's the option of learning a language at school, and I was interested in it, I'd definitely take it, even if to just gain an insight on the basics of the language.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:07 pm


Lawrencew
What do you guys mean by school programs? Do you just mean the lessons?

Although the pace is rather slow, I quite like it sometimes. Going at quite a leisurely pace, and being tested regularly, it makes a nice change from having to plan and schedule your own 'lessons'. It's all free too, so all those resources don't have to come out of your own pocket.

That being said, schools don't exactly provide a HUGE variety of different lessons, but I say if there's the option of learning a language at school, and I was interested in it, I'd definitely take it, even if to just gain an insight on the basics of the language.

I really don't like the fact that I am being taught to memorize sentences. That's basically it. I think that's bad, because I'm not being taught grammer, sentence structure, etc. I mean, seriously. Am I seriously going to use the sentence"That is a pencil" in a normal conversation? No. xDD

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:03 am


AKAX LAPISAWA.
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:17 am


Kumiko-Misaki
Lawrencew
What do you guys mean by school programs? Do you just mean the lessons?

Although the pace is rather slow, I quite like it sometimes. Going at quite a leisurely pace, and being tested regularly, it makes a nice change from having to plan and schedule your own 'lessons'. It's all free too, so all those resources don't have to come out of your own pocket.

That being said, schools don't exactly provide a HUGE variety of different lessons, but I say if there's the option of learning a language at school, and I was interested in it, I'd definitely take it, even if to just gain an insight on the basics of the language.

I really don't like the fact that I am being taught to memorize sentences. That's basically it. I think that's bad, because I'm not being taught grammer, sentence structure, etc. I mean, seriously. Am I seriously going to use the sentence"That is a pencil" in a normal conversation? No. xDD


Surely, they teach you the construction "This is a..." and then tell you that you can exchange the noun for different things? I think to begin with, you have to start with some memorisation, before you dissect everything you do. In French, we learned the phrase "Je m'appelle..." waaay before we found out that it used a reflexive verb.

Lawrencew
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Vajra B. Hairava

PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:27 am


Nayax wachraphairawawa, Nayax qulurat'unkirïtwa. Khitits jumax?
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:16 pm


I maybe understood that first sentence. You said who you were, right?!

Just a guess...

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Kumiko-Misaki

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:13 pm


Lawrencew
Kumiko-Misaki
Lawrencew
What do you guys mean by school programs? Do you just mean the lessons?

Although the pace is rather slow, I quite like it sometimes. Going at quite a leisurely pace, and being tested regularly, it makes a nice change from having to plan and schedule your own 'lessons'. It's all free too, so all those resources don't have to come out of your own pocket.

That being said, schools don't exactly provide a HUGE variety of different lessons, but I say if there's the option of learning a language at school, and I was interested in it, I'd definitely take it, even if to just gain an insight on the basics of the language.

I really don't like the fact that I am being taught to memorize sentences. That's basically it. I think that's bad, because I'm not being taught grammer, sentence structure, etc. I mean, seriously. Am I seriously going to use the sentence"That is a pencil" in a normal conversation? No. xDD


Surely, they teach you the construction "This is a..." and then tell you that you can exchange the noun for different things? I think to begin with, you have to start with some memorisation, before you dissect everything you do. In French, we learned the phrase "Je m'appelle..." waaay before we found out that it used a reflexive verb.

Well, hopefully that's the case.
PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:56 pm


I'm starting to get the feeling that the end is near.

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For a few days, it looked like it might rise from the grave like a zombie with a raging hunger for human brains, but as happens in all zombie movies, that zombie has taken a shotgun to the face and is writhing in the dirt soaked with the goo leftover from the obligatory one somewhat major character who always gets killed somehow.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:52 pm


This is because I apparently didn't accept a join request yesterday from someone who said they were astonished at the high level of guild activity.
PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:19 pm


?

Was he/she/it/þey being sarcastic or someþing? I þink I'm not getting someþing.

Vajra B. Hairava


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:31 pm


Not at all. This guild is very, very, very active compared to most guilds. Like, I'd guess one in three hundred guilds is about as active as this one.
PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:57 pm


Really? Maybe gaia is just dying then.

Vajra B. Hairava


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:49 am


All of the outside forums are on a slow decline in sanity, if not in members. The ED is very similar to how the GD was a few years ago, and the GD is just crazy.
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