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I am thrilled beyond measure to be on exam leave. I have a Social Policy exam on the 8th of December and a Linguistics exam on the 16th. I don't have a Russian exam until May, although we did a lot of Russian tests last week...oral, grammar, translation. We have to write a Russian literature essay for when we go back in January, but I'm not thinking that far ahead.
2nd year has been awful. I have hated every single minute of it and have seriously thought about just throwing in the towel and getting a job. Unfortunately, I'm not really qualified for anything.
Linguistics continues to drive me round the twist. It feels like someone just made it up as a subject. Lots of it is quite interesting...I'm very interested in Sociolinguistics and Language acquisition, whether first language learned by children or second language skills learned later. Unfortunately we are not doing any of this kind of thing this year. It's all about syntactic trees and semantic formulae. My brain doesn't respond well to this type of information and I have no hope of passing the exam. I did an assignment a few weeks ago, which I have no results for yet, but they put a model answer on the university web page, and my answer bore little relation to that. I have to see my Director of Studies to see if I can just drop Linguistics altogether and take a half course in something else next term. The thought of ploughing on with it until May makes me feel a bit desperate, to tell the truth.
I was really scared going in to do my Russian oral test. We have a new oral teacher this year and she has always seemed a bit cold and she speaks so incredibly fast that I sometimes struggle to follow what she's saying. I actually thought I was going to be sick as I waited for my turn. I had to submit an essay for her to read about 'The House of My Dreams'. I was amazed that she really liked it and she was really friendly and funny as she chatted to me for the actual speaking part of the test. I got 75% for both the essay and my speaking ability. I was really surprised and relieved.
I am looking forward to catching up with my LJ friends again over the next few weeks. I have missed reading all about what you've been up to, but I haven't had the time and I have been a bit too low, so I just kind of bowed out for a while.
2nd year has been awful. I have hated every single minute of it and have seriously thought about just throwing in the towel and getting a job. Unfortunately, I'm not really qualified for anything.
Linguistics continues to drive me round the twist. It feels like someone just made it up as a subject. Lots of it is quite interesting...I'm very interested in Sociolinguistics and Language acquisition, whether first language learned by children or second language skills learned later. Unfortunately we are not doing any of this kind of thing this year. It's all about syntactic trees and semantic formulae. My brain doesn't respond well to this type of information and I have no hope of passing the exam. I did an assignment a few weeks ago, which I have no results for yet, but they put a model answer on the university web page, and my answer bore little relation to that. I have to see my Director of Studies to see if I can just drop Linguistics altogether and take a half course in something else next term. The thought of ploughing on with it until May makes me feel a bit desperate, to tell the truth.
I was really scared going in to do my Russian oral test. We have a new oral teacher this year and she has always seemed a bit cold and she speaks so incredibly fast that I sometimes struggle to follow what she's saying. I actually thought I was going to be sick as I waited for my turn. I had to submit an essay for her to read about 'The House of My Dreams'. I was amazed that she really liked it and she was really friendly and funny as she chatted to me for the actual speaking part of the test. I got 75% for both the essay and my speaking ability. I was really surprised and relieved.
I am looking forward to catching up with my LJ friends again over the next few weeks. I have missed reading all about what you've been up to, but I haven't had the time and I have been a bit too low, so I just kind of bowed out for a while.