Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I - Page 436 - The Student Room
Yeah, I know! It's also pretty rubbish that kids in other countries learn English from a really young age, and yet in Britain it's just 'oh, maybe give them a few years of very basic French when they start secondary school'
Also, a quick question or two for Mandarin speakers:
1) How do you ask and say your age in Mandarin? (e.g How old are you? I'm fifteen years old). I've had a look online but basically every resource says a different thing
and 2) How do you ask when someone's birthday is and say yours?
FOR THOSE TAKING THE AQA COURSE (OR ANY EXAM BOARD TBH) FOR SPANISH AS-LEVEL: I HAVE MADE A MEMRISE COURSE WITH ALL THE SPECIFIC VOCABULARY. MY USERNAME IS PEAS.
http://www.memrise.com/course/169708/as-spanish-aqa/
1) Formal (acquaintances, older people- general politeness)-你多大了?
Informal (family, friends) 你几岁?
To say your age: 我 (age) 岁, note you do not need a verb after the subject pronoun. (omit the 'am')
2)你的生日几月几号?
To say your birthday:我的生日是 (month) 月, (day) 号
06-11-2013 20:12
What's the rest of the sentence for the German one?
French is irritating me now because of the class, I'm not doing homeworks and it's just annoying.
Want to do something else I swear
Anyway, quand on commence le français, on l'aime toujours
I decided it's "ist London". I can't give uou rest of the sentence, in case my tutor runs it all through software, and does me for plagiarism or something.
Meanwhile, I've chickened out of GCSE German
oh, for god's sake- has it become a four-year plan now?
Nooooooooo, that would be laecherlich!
I suggested to zee tutor that I just sit the external exams this summer...(this was after the A2 class I casually attended yesterday )
Looks like I will not have to suffer a proper speaking exam this year
Last edited by thatitootoo; 06-11-2013 at 21:06.
Um, how does that work, given the external exams are worth 20% each? I know you're on a maths strike at the moment, but surely you'll see the problem when you think about it...
I'll just have documented evidence of my passive German understanding...It won't get cashed into a GCSE, I don't think
Speaking is one of your strongest skills...
Meanwhile I did a speaking exam yesterday, and I'm doing another tomorrow.
Well...I did perform the best in my AS class for a certain 'Fernsehen' speaking assessment we did last month
Bonne Chance! French pronunciation just seems impossible pour moi, so many silent letters! But I'm sure you can master it like an Overlord
Last edited by thatitootoo; 06-11-2013 at 21:32.
I think we should make learning intensive for atleast one language from a young age...
But which one would we pick?
Something traditional like French or German?
Or something more modern in preparation for the future? Like Chinese, Spanish or Russian?
Either way the whole country would need to stick to teaching the same language, then introduce another one or two later down the line?
06-11-2013 22:56
I say they teach whichever they can offer a high standard whether it be French, German, Spanish or Italian. Primary.
Secondary then introduces a language with a different alphabet and teach that. Along with all 4 of the other languages.
Then they choose if they want to further anything.
this will be really useful thank you but how does it work?
06-11-2013 23:02
Last edited by EmyJ14; 06-11-2013 at 23:07.
Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I - Page 436 - The Student Room
Yeah, I know! It's also pretty rubbish that kids in other countries learn English from a really young age, and yet in Britain it's just 'oh, maybe give them a few years of very basic French when they start secondary school'
Also, a quick question or two for Mandarin speakers:
1) How do you ask and say your age in Mandarin? (e.g How old are you? I'm fifteen years old). I've had a look online but basically every resource says a different thing
and 2) How do you ask when someone's birthday is and say yours?
FOR THOSE TAKING THE AQA COURSE (OR ANY EXAM BOARD TBH) FOR SPANISH AS-LEVEL: I HAVE MADE A MEMRISE COURSE WITH ALL THE SPECIFIC VOCABULARY. MY USERNAME IS PEAS.
http://www.memrise.com/course/169708/as-spanish-aqa/
1) Formal (acquaintances, older people- general politeness)-你多大了?
Informal (family, friends) 你几岁?
To say your age: 我 (age) 岁, note you do not need a verb after the subject pronoun. (omit the 'am')
2)你的生日几月几号?
To say your birthday:我的生日是 (month) 月, (day) 号
06-11-2013 20:12
What's the rest of the sentence for the German one?
French is irritating me now because of the class, I'm not doing homeworks and it's just annoying.
Want to do something else I swear
Anyway, quand on commence le français, on l'aime toujours
I decided it's "ist London". I can't give uou rest of the sentence, in case my tutor runs it all through software, and does me for plagiarism or something.
Meanwhile, I've chickened out of GCSE German
oh, for god's sake- has it become a four-year plan now?
Nooooooooo, that would be laecherlich!
I suggested to zee tutor that I just sit the external exams this summer...(this w
as after the A2 class I casually attended yesterday )
Looks like I will not have to suffer a proper speaking exam this year
Last edited by thatitootoo; 06-11-2013 at 21:06.
Um, how does that work, given the external exams are worth 20% each? I know you're on a maths strike at the moment, but surely you'll see the problem when you think about it...
I'll just have documented evidence of my passive German understanding...It won't get cashed into a GCSE, I don't think
Speaking is one of your strongest skills...
Meanwhile I did a speaking exam yesterday, and I'm doing another tomorrow.
Well...I did perform the best in my AS class for a certain 'Fernsehen' speaking assessment we did last month
Bonne Chance! French pronunciation just seems impossible pour moi, so many silent letters! But I'm sure you can master it like an Overlord
Last edited by thatitootoo; 06-11-2013 at 21:32.
I think we should make learning intensive for atleast one language from a young age...
But which one would we pick?
Something traditional like French or German?
Or something more modern in preparation for the future? Like Chinese, Spanish or Russian?
Either way the whole country would need to stick to teaching the same language, then introduce another one or two later down the line?
06-11-2013 22:56
I say they teach whichever they can offer a high standard whether it be French, German, Spanish or Italian. Primary.
Secondary then introduces a language with a different alphabet and teach that. Along with all 4 of the other languages.
Then they choose if they want to further anything.
this will be really useful thank you but how does it work?
06-11-2013 23:02
Last edited by EmyJ14; 06-11-2013 at 23:07.