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[Greater Gattsby]

Should I do French as an elective

I struggle with French so much, dropped it after my first semester at school. But hey, if you're dedicated to it and want to go to France or something, then go for it.

 

[Dylan8]

anyone who is in uni or has been to uni feel free to chime in

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Anyone here read/studied Wuthering heights?

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

French is an easy language to learn. Picked it up during high school for a year and learned heaps.

Dropped it after that one mandatory year though, because it's ****ing boring as ****.

There are other languages you're better off investing your time in. If you're doing it for the sake of it, I wouldn't bother. If you're into France/want to spend any time there, it'd be really worthwhile, though.

 

[Dylan8]

French is an easy language to learn. Picked it up during high school for a year and learned heaps.

Dropped it after that one mandatory year though, because it's ******* boring as ****.

There are other languages you're better off investing your time in. If you're doing it for the sake of it, I wouldn't bother. If you're into France/want to spend any time there, it'd be really worthwhile, though.

I'd be more interested in visiting Germany but France mightbcool. TBH I'm just so not sure what electives to pick.

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

I'd be more interested in visiting Germany but France mightbcool. TBH I'm just so not sure what electives to pick.

Same here.

Unfortunately I'm pretty restricted in terms of my electives - I literally have no choice this year, and it's fairly limited from next year on. I'd like to learn German or maybe Japanese in my spare time, though.

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Same here.

Unfortunately I'm pretty restricted in terms of my electives - I literally have no choice this year, and it's fairly limited from next year on. I'd like to learn German or maybe Japanese in my spare time, though.

Japanese is pretty fun. I learnt it for 3 years then it got pushed out of my top 6 subjects due to other interests. I learned vocab and the 3 script languages pretty quickly, which helped in the long term. I can now read most Japanese, but I probably have no clue what majority of it says without looking it up.

 

[Dylan8]

Same here.

Unfortunately I'm pretty restricted in terms of my electives - I literally have no choice this year, and it's fairly limited from next year on. I'd like to learn German or maybe Japanese in my spare time, though.

Ugh, Japanese. Good luck with that.

I'll start with something where I read left to right, downwards, and with recognisable characters.

 

[Bryce_Jersey17]

French can be quite boring if you're not going to use it in the near future, but it is a handy thing to know should you have need of it. I met a French couple here in Sydney in my way to Uni. They were tourists and spoke very little English so with my extremely limited French I was able to help them.

In the end, it's up to you, I'd recommend doing it if there aren't many other options

 

[Craegus]

anyone who is in uni or has been to uni feel free to chime in

As I had a lot of freedom in unit choice in my Uni degree, I did beginner French and Spanish (101 units), passed both (somehow), didn't do any more following them.

I did like doing French, but the conjugation stuff seriously got annoying fast. If you can handle that then it is certainly worth doing.

 

[Bacon Warrior]

The only French phrase I know is the infamous "voulez vouz coucher avec moi ce soir", which will probably get me a palm across the face if I say it to another human being.

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

Japanese is pretty fun. I learnt it for 3 years then it got pushed out of my top 6 subjects due to other interests. I learned vocab and the 3 script languages pretty quickly, which helped in the long term. I can now read most Japanese, but I probably have no clue what majority of it says without looking it up.

I learned it throughout primary school and loved it.

I can still read the signs around town on the various restaurants - and I'm just so proud of that, haha.

Do you have much interest in the culture (food, music, television, etc)? I find it intriguing (animated stuff aside, not a fan).

Ugh, Japanese. Good luck with that.

I'll start with something where I read left to right, downwards, and with recognisable characters.

Haha, I completely understand.

Back in the days of Beyblade, I bought a Japanese Beyblade comic book from a newsagent up in Yarra Junction - I'm ashamed to admit how long it took me to realise it had to be read right-to-left.

 

[Dylan8]

I spent my entire Japanese classes in primary school taking the piss

Also the same in the first two years of secondary school when we had to take a language - Indonesian (made infamous by the slack cool teacher)

This would probably be my first time having a genuine crack at another language.

 

[Greater Gattsby]

I learned it throughout primary school and loved it.

I can still read the signs around town on the various restaurants - and I'm just so proud of that, haha.

Do you have much interest in the culture (food, music, television, etc)? I find it intriguing (animated stuff aside, not a fan).

Yeah, I was taught it at primary school for 6 years and was oblivious as to what was going on. Went into year 7 with a fresh start at the subject and carried through until year 10.

To be completely honest, I just thought it was awesome that I could read and speak basic Japanese. Not many people can look at a script and pronounce what it says. I dunno, I just thought that aspect was pretty cool. Apart from that, I hate their comics, music and television. It's all way too full on.

The food on the other hand is awesome.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I was the best German student at my primary school, moved schools to a school that did Japanese and was so far behind that I could never catch up so I didn't try.

My Japanese teacher was crazy hot but hated me because I didn't try in her class despite being good at everything else.

 

[Bryce_Jersey17]

I only ever got to do Yr 8 French. We never really had any other opportunities where it was compulsory.

I actually decided to teach myself AUSLAN Sign Language for my teaching career, so far its helped alot at work. We had 4-5 customers who had to right everything down so that they could communicate. Once I realised they were deaf, and started signing with them, they started coming more often. Plus I get a tip from them every time which is a plus

 

[Dylan8]

Hot Japanese teacher

That is the dream Scorch if you didn't shag the hot Japanese teacher you really ****ed it and you've let me down.

 

[Dylan8]

'stuffed'

that is the worst swear filter replacement word ever

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

Yeah, I was taught it at primary school for 6 years and was oblivious as to what was going on. Went into year 7 with a fresh start at the subject and carried through until year 10.

To be completely honest, I just thought it was awesome that I could read and speak basic Japanese. Not many people can look at a script and pronounce what it says. I dunno, I just thought that aspect was pretty cool. Apart from that, I hate their comics, music and television. It's all way too full on.

The food on the other hand is awesome.

Yeah, I'm the same, but gave up after year 8. It's great to have some handle on another language, however limited.

The food is amazing. Whenever I'm at a food court with mates, they'll head straight for McDonalds/KFC/HJs and wait in line for 10 minutes to be served shit food - give me the cheaper, nicer Asian food any day.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Hot Japanese teacher

That is the dream Scorch if you didn't shag the hot Japanese teacher you really stuffed it and you've let me down.

I was 9-12 and she was, as far as I can tell, 25ish.

How hard was it to gauge adult ages as a pre-teen I mean really

 

[Dylan8]

I was 9-12

I missed that note

 

[Andonis1997]

So, learned Greek from Reception to Year 7, then French (instead of Japanese because it's much more useful....and easier) from Year 8 - present in Year 12.

Right. Now that that's over....Bedtime.

 

[Dylan8]

So, learned Greek from Reception to Year 7, then French (instead of Japanese because it's much more useful....and easier) from Year 8 - present in Year 12.

Right. Now that that's over....Bedtime.

Thanks Ando


Bye Ando

 

[NM_Mitchell]

just bringing this over from the country jumpers project.

this is the EDFL's new rep jumper, changed from this.

opinions on the change from an original to an Essendon jumper with a different comp logo on it?

 

[Dylan8]

Which one is the new one?