The last couple of minutes in particular are fantastic.
So the quality of the teaching is a big problem? Aren't there any foreign institutes which try to put an effort in teaching languages to people? Native speakers who can help out with learning foreign languages, for example? I think it's very important for people who want to learn other languages than their native language, to be given the opportunity to do so.
can i do it?!?!? i never have before. ill go to bed in a sec.
and the last 30 seconds of EPAA is fantastic.
Amazing how bono sounds like he is drifting in and out of consciousness during the actual song.
Was it compulsory in primary? I must have been sick that day. Or it was those two years i lived in Australia.
And there was no learning any Maori in any of my high school classes, but we certainly got a lot of Maori history. With all due respect, how many consecutive years can you reasonably accept learning the same thing before you just don't give a fuck anymore?
I had some French classes in high school - one teacher who was from France was more interested in presentation of work than actually teaching us anything, and the other one wasn't a bad teacher, but again the focus was on useless things like presentation than learning words or speaking the language.
can i do it?!?!? i never have before. ill go to bed in a sec.
We did a fair bit of Maori at my primary school. Maybe it's not compulsory nationwide? I think we had a specific Maori lesson every week, and certain units would require extra class time. I was actually pretty good at Maori and probably would have become fluent had I stayed in New Zealand. The college I would've attended had a very good Maori programme. Nowadays, I just know the anthem, counting, kia ora, and a few other words here and there.
Oh, we did far too much fucking Aussie European history. It was maddening. I mean, great, learn the stuff, but don't fucking repeat what we did last year. And have more damn scope!
Though Ian, be grateful you got Kiwi history. My mother was solely taught American history. She went to college on the Kapiti Coast!
We did a fair bit of Maori at my primary school. Maybe it's not compulsory nationwide? I think we had a specific Maori lesson every week, and certain units would require extra class time. I was actually pretty good at Maori and probably would have become fluent had I stayed in New Zealand. The college I would've attended had a very good Maori programme. Nowadays, I just know the anthem, counting, kia ora, and a few other words here and there.
Oh, we did far too much fucking Aussie European history. It was maddening. I mean, great, learn the stuff, but don't fucking repeat what we did last year. And have more damn scope!
Though Ian, be grateful you got Kiwi history. My mother was solely taught American history. She went to college on the Kapiti Coast!
Hmm, such a shame... French is a beautiful language and comes in handy when visiting different countries.
I would like to know how EPAA kind of came into being. Did they hire some Pueblo Indian shaman to come and cast a spell on Bono that would make him vomit his spirit or something?
We learned Spanish at school, by the way. I should probably learn that, relations in South America and such.
I had some French classes in high school - one teacher who was from France was more interested in presentation of work than actually teaching us anything, and the other one wasn't a bad teacher, but again the focus was on useless things like presentation than learning words or speaking the language.
I felt my German classes were more "here's useful travel phrases" than "let's teach you to be fluent". My friend and I were the top two German students at my school. Yet when we had visiting German exchange students, we were too shy to talk to them, and we could barely hold anything more than a basic conversation and ask useless questions.
In grade 12, our German teacher tried to teach a Goethe unit, but that failed spectacularly since none of us knew even remotely enough German to comprehend it. Our teacher was English but had lived in Germany, and her husband (who was a maths teacher!) was German.
Danny, chop chop, we need to go to Westward Ho! and we need to go now!
Hmm, such a shame... French is a beautiful language and comes in handy when visiting different countries.