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« Reply #5055 on: January 23, 2014, 11:25:21 pm »
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So I've decided I want to actually commit to learning French, which is something I've wanted to do for a while. Has anyone that has done it suggest attending French 1 lectures or seminars or whatever? I'm thinking of buying some books myself and learning that way but some guidance for a language would be good.
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« Reply #5056 on: January 23, 2014, 11:31:37 pm »
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Source?

I reckon Full-fee undergrad / CSP undergrad split it a good idea in some cases. Uni gets more funding, which is desperately needs after the cuts made by the Govnt over the last couple of years, which can be used to better facilities and education.

I'll keep looking for the source I got that from, but here he touches on some things: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1898741.htm

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So I've decided I want to actually commit to learning French, which is something I've wanted to do for a while. Has anyone that has done it suggest attending French 1 lectures or seminars or whatever? I'm thinking of buying some books myself and learning that way but some guidance for a language would be good.


Definitely go to tutes. I've learned a language by myself before, but had the huge bonus of constantly being around native speakers before I went off and learned it myself. The tutes are actually great too and it'll give you information you just can't learn from the textbook. Languages need to be used in all forms of communication, you're just not going to get that from a book.
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« Reply #5057 on: January 23, 2014, 11:32:52 pm »
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Don't think I can go to tutorials without enrolling...
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« Reply #5058 on: January 23, 2014, 11:34:24 pm »
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I'm pretty sure French classes are 100% tutorials :(
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« Reply #5059 on: January 23, 2014, 11:36:55 pm »
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Hmmm, no freeloading for me then I guess. That's a bummer. Guess it'll be youtube for me!
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« Reply #5060 on: January 23, 2014, 11:52:26 pm »
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Don't think I can go to tutorials without enrolling...

If you can find yourself "Teach Yourself French", it's a book series, then use it. It's absolutely brilliant. I used it to teach myself Serbian in 3 weeks, and that was to a respectable enough level that I can communicate fairly effectively and whatnot. A certain pirate may have it under a French Language Learning pack...
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« Reply #5061 on: January 24, 2014, 02:49:30 am »
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Hancock - Michel Thomas's audio lessons for French are fantastic. He teaches you intuitively and let's you slowly work out grammar and conjugation whilst immediately forming useful sentences. Do his Beginner and then Advanced series and you'll be on your way.
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« Reply #5062 on: January 24, 2014, 11:30:37 am »
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So as yet another jaffy I've got some subject selection queries.

Having never really done any programming (or just any computer stuff in general) in my life, I was wondering whether taking 'Foundations of computing: COMP10001' would be an okay decision. Or would I be at a real disadvantage/struggle?
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« Reply #5063 on: January 24, 2014, 11:34:56 am »
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So as yet another jaffy I've got some subject selection queries.

Having never really done any programming (or just any computer stuff in general) in my life, I was wondering whether taking 'Foundations of computing: COMP10001' would be an okay decision. Or would I be at a real disadvantage/struggle?
Given that it's called 'Foundations' probably not. And you have to start somewhere!
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« Reply #5064 on: January 25, 2014, 05:01:58 pm »
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« Reply #5065 on: January 25, 2014, 10:30:51 pm »
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Even if you're not a maths nerd (I'm not), this is pretty bloody cool!
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« Reply #5066 on: January 25, 2014, 10:39:02 pm »
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Even if you're not a maths nerd (I'm not), this is pretty bloody cool!


That is quite cool, I wonder how they rationalise that (given that they note how unintuitive it is)
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« Reply #5067 on: January 25, 2014, 10:43:45 pm »
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That is quite cool, I wonder how they rationalise that (given that they note how unintuitive it is)
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« Reply #5068 on: January 25, 2014, 10:48:06 pm »
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« Reply #5069 on: January 25, 2014, 11:25:11 pm »
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That video makes me want to study mathematics ;_; Why can't we study everything?
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