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19 Nov 2017, 7:55 pm
shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Body language Useful
I shoulda thought of that.
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19 Nov 2017, 10:49 pm
auntblabby wrote:
shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Body language Useful
I shoulda thought of that.
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19 Nov 2017, 10:54 pm
nick007 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Body language Useful
I shoulda thought of that.
but if only i'd been fluent in body language at key points in my life, I coulda avoided lotsa troubles.
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20 Nov 2017, 6:57 am
20 Nov 2017, 9:03 am
Embla wrote:
fluffysaurus wrote:
The problem with French at school was they kept saying if I learnt it I would be able to use it in camp sights in France. I didn't want to go camping in France, though.
Haha! What a weird and incredibly specific example to give. I got many silly answers in school when asking how I'm going to be able to use the information I'm studying in real life, but that one takes the price.
"Why am I learning French? How is it going to be useful?"
"When you go camping in france you'll be thankful you know it".
What bugged me about spanish-class was that the teacher wasn't even fluent in spanish herself. She pronounced everything wrong and I couldn't stand it! I wasn't the only one who didn't learn anything from that class.
I think they used that example because there was a lot about asking directions in the textbooks. There was also a big push at that time to make lessons feel more relevant to pupils. They must have thought we were more likely to go camping in France than become diplomats.
That relevance rubbish ruined a lot of my school subjects. In history when we did the Roman Empire in Britain, our project was to write a party invitation from a Roman child to another Roman child at another garrison.
My Russian teacher at school spoke good Russian
and he was really interested in Russia.
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