GCSE's in Languages

[BobX]

I took German.. regret it ever since. It's so much harder then previous years and i just can't remember it.

[d17c]

In year 7/8/9 I was the best in my year at German, I could speak all of the basic phrases so fluently that sometimes I'd accidentally start speaking German in the middle of a normal conversation.
I chose not to pick it at GCSE just because of the teacher that I had at the time, which I realise now was a big mistake.
I'd think everyone should choose a language at GCSE because it will definitely be useful in later life, not just the language, but the skills you pick up by studying language and other cultures.
I agree with Virgin Mary, less people in a class is a lot better, you get a more personal and direct education.

[Porkah]

Yep, In my school it's the same.
It's not the school strictness.
But also in my school, we write down what we are going to put in the essay and the teacher translates it to french for us, all we have to do is learn it for the exam. Yeah baby!
Trust me there are harder subjects at GCSE, such as.. History! ]:

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[patrick.]

French is quite good at our school.
We have these french assisstants come in from france to learn english and teach us french, it's well cool and then every wednesday we have someone from the university come in a teach us a bit of french
Overall its a good subject to take.

[Muniflex]

Well i speak fluent Spanish and live there and translate alot. Which earns me a good amount for something i find easy.
I am also learning french and soon will be doing Italian. I want to speak these as i want to be a chef and they are the most spoken languages in restaraunts. So i highly advise people to learn languages.

[:Act]

I took 3 Languages at GCSE [French, German, Spanish], and got an A in all of them. I took French for A level and i'm now basically fluent. I did a business competence course in Russian that i passed, and did a Level 1 Qualification in Japanese [thats hard] and passed. I'm currently doing sign language after school on mondays
I cannot stress how good languages look on CV's. And how good they are in real life. You never know who you're going to meet, and if you can speak to them in their language, its really nice. Also helps you out if ur in that country and ur lost LOL
But seriously, i recommend you take as many languages as possible. You don't even have to do a language based career, i know im not, but it's useful to have them
i love learning languages tho Its my 'thing'
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[shiver]

don't be influenced by others, chose what you want to. i agree with the fact it's better being in a smaller group too, as you can get more assistance from teachers. there's like 10 people in my french and latin class and it's great, you can get much more done.