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Combien argent pour une GCSE en Francais?

Mrs Magpie said:
Where can I get a new character map, k&A do you know? I think my son deleted it when he used my computer :mad: It's nowhere on the hard drive and no, I don't have a windows disc :mad:
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to get the microsoft one you will need a windows disk(prediictable innit)

plenty of shareware versions around though.

try this


dave
 
kained&able said:
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dave
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It's not so much the standard of my spoken French (execrable though it is) that's the problem it's the fact I can't understand what the fuck they are saying :D

I'll look in to it though thanks.

Anyway... je must go a la tesco pour une lighter de fag and walk la chiens.

Adieu.
 
Pourquoi vous voulez étudier pour un GCSE Français? Vous aurez meilleur de prenez les leçons de conversation en français. En France, personne ne s'intéresse à votre qualifications scolaire de la langue, mais si vous pouvez lui parler (tu sais que je ne pas ecrire tres bien en français :) ).

Trouvez-vous un français expatrié et lui offrir argent pour une heure de conversation en Français. Meilleur, aussi offrir une heure de conversation en Anglais et aucun d'argent :)

Excuse moi pour mon français affreux - je peut parler un peu plus meilleur d'ecrire!
 
longdog said:
C'est une bon question.

Mon Francais est terrible mais worst than la standard de la GCSE?

</cod frog>

My spoken French isn't quite this bad (although close) and I can get by by pointing at things and say si vous plait and merci and I know the essentials like cheese, bread, beer and my cousin has been hit in the bollocks by a frisby.

If I put on my 'hell in a hand-cart' head I don't want to be wasting my time learning how to say the pen of my aunt is in the garden (the first French phrase I ever learnt... Thanks dad :D).

Is a failed O level better than a passed gcse?
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Its a really easy exam you would just need to learn a couple of text books worth of simple vocab. I got a good by learning only about 10 irregular verbs, this combined with regulars was enough to get like 80% in the written exam. Oral exam was abit tricky, reading and listening exam were easy.

Btw I wouldn't recommend it if you actually want to learn some french.
 
agnesdavies said:
Pourquoi vous voulez étudier pour un GCSE Français? Vous aurez meilleur de prenez les leçons de conversation en français. En France, personne ne s'intéresse à votre qualifications scolaire de la langue, mais si vous pouvez lui parler (tu sais que je ne pas ecrire tres bien en français :) ).

Trouvez-vous un français expatrié et lui offrir argent pour une heure de conversation en Français. Meilleur, aussi offrir une heure de conversation en Anglais et aucun d'argent :)

Excuse moi pour mon français affreux - je peut parler un peu plus meilleur d'ecrire!
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Now I can understand that (more or less) Does that get me a GCSE? :D
 
longdog said:
Now I can understand that (more or less) Does that get me a GCSE? :D
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Going on what I've heard about GCSEs in modern languages, a GCSE probably wouldn't get you anywhere near there! There was a chap on the radio who was talking (or trying to talk) to his GCSE French daughter, and was horrified at just how much they didn't know.

Your best bet would be to find someone who'll do conversation lessons, and the other thing that's well worth doing is to start listening to some of the French radio stations - if you can't get them on DAB (and some did used to be on FM too), many stream output over the web. Just stick it on and let it wash over you - you'll be surprised how quick some of the cadences start to infiltrate your brane :)
 
I remember looking through that book called Franglais which is written in the style of Longdogs OP. If I remember rightly it says in the blurb to the book that it is at last a use for your O level French. :D

To be fair to the modern French GCSE syllabus, it does aim at teaching the sort of practical French that you could use on a holiday. It is very different from he old O level of my day where you were really just learning the grammar of the language. There wasn't much emphasis on the oral side either.
 
seconded on the radio thing.
all available online (radiofrance.fr), but france inter 163khz lw handy for bathroom. news progs best for beginners.
 
Leafster said:
Le subjonctif était en 'O' Level! ;)
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Naturellement!

I never realised at the time just what a good grounding we were getting in these areas. When the Teenager was doing her GCSEs, I was appalled at how "noddy" the whole thing had got. As a nation, we should be utterly, bitterly ashamed of what we have done to the education of our children. And my dad was a teacher (chemistry) who baled out just about at the time that the National Curriculum started, and a little while before GCSEs came in. He continued to do private tuition and later worked as a lab technician in another school, and was very clear that the standard of knowledge required for GCSE level, even at the top tier, was far below what "O"-Level wanted.

Yet this continues to be some kind of secret, with various groups of people insisting, in the face of all the evidence - like people not being able to use the subjunctive in French - that nothing has changed.

If Longdog had been saying "Combien d'argent pour prendre un "O"-Level en Francais", I'd have been a bit more equivocal, because I believe that "O"-Level did at least equip people with a solid enough grounding in the language to continue to develop. As far as I can tell, GCSE doesn't get much past phrase book French. Never was the phrase "dumbing down" so appropriate.
 
longdog said:
That's what I wondered.

Maybe I'm better looking for a 'conversational' French course :hmm:
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definitely. I passed GCSE french 18 years ago now... wouldnt say I could 'speak french'
I can get by when I go over there for simple things.directions,food,things in shops,campsite/hotel transactions but thats all
 
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