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spanish is my 4th alevel, i chose it because i was brought up bilingual and my spanish level is pretty good (not perfect, but i got a 9 at gcse with no lessons/revision). my other 3 alevels are maths, bio, and psych

when researching spanish alevel, i thought i would be improving my spanish, learning some new tenses, getting more vocabulary, and learning a bit about the culture and films and books and stuff. it seemed interesting enough.

but, the lessons are soooo shite like for one entire lesson (1.5 hours) she taught us WHAT AN ARTICLE IS like bro (an article is like the or a or an yk that type of word so it defo did not need a whole hour and a half) and all the lessons seem to be exam techniques and highlighting the key words (which i dont fucking understand because the whole sentence is important so why are you telling me to only read 3 words of it omds) and stuff like i think the only thing i have learnt is the word for 'baptism' and i CANTTTT the lessons go so slow and i feel like i'm learning nothing and although i do want the extra qualification, do i really want it that much????

alsooo i hate the teacher and i think she hates me (i made the whole rant post about it about a week ago oops but yeah i just cannot stand her) and also last lesson i thought that the booklet she gave us was the homework (she didn't really explain it she just held up the booklet and said this is ur homework) so i did the booklet and brought it in for the lesson and turns out she only wanted us to do 1 page but like i feel like that was super unclear but anyways even tho so many people hadn't even done that one page it was me she got mad at saying i had ruined her lesson plan like sorry i misunderstood ur instructions but i did do the homework :( so i said i can cross it out and do it again and she was like no no no dont do that and like UGH WHAT DO U WANT FROM ME BRO I JUST WANT TO LEARN SOMETHING :(

sooo yeah any advice??? i can't do the alevel without lessons cuz i have to learn the book and the film and idrk how to teach that to myself since it's basically eng lit but in spanish and lit was my worst subjecg EVERR

currently i want to study biomedical science at uni and specialise in neuroscience but idk plans might change and what if i need a languages alevel??? i dont want to regret dropping it but i also dont want to hate my life for the next two years bro WHAT DO I DO

right i have just started studying spanish as a 4th alevel cuz i speak spanish but OMDS MY TEACHER I CANNOT STAND HER (and btw i'm not just being overly critical, i have 5 friends taking spanish (which seems like not many but there are only 30 people in the whole college of like 3000 people taking spanish so it's quite a lot respectively) so i thought i would make a list of things that i just can't stand and see if anyone has experienced anything similar or thinks i'm just overreacting

1. she constantly switches between an argenitian accent and a spanish accent. i have absolutely no issue with the south american accent and have learnt to understand it, but SWITCHING BETWEEN THE TWO EVERY OTHER WORD??? STOP IT BRO IT'S SO CONFUSING

2. her words aren't clear at all. and i don't mean like 'oh she speaks too fast for me to understand' I MEAN SHE DOESN'T ANNUNCIATE ONE BIT!!! it's like those chavs that think they're cool by basically talking in grunts ifykwim like HER WORDS AREN'T WORDS

3. when she gives instructions for a task, she makes them unnecessarily wordy and confusing. for example she had a task where we had to decide if the sentence she said was the exact same, a paraphrase, or wrong compared to the sentence she wrote down. she was like point to the columbia flag if it's wrong, to the venesuela flag if it's exact, and the argenitna flag if it's a paraphrase or something LIKE WHY DID RHAT HAVE TO BE SO COMPLEX AND ALSO THE FLAGS IN THE CLASSROOM ARE SO TINY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT SHE WAS ON ABOUT CUZ THEY'RE LITERALLY A5 FLAGS

4. she will only give instructions in spanish. this isn;t so much of an issue for me cuz i speak spanish but BRO we have peopel in this class who got a 6 at gcse spanish and you're expecting them to fully understand the sentence you just said with a bunch of words that aren't on the gcse spec and then YOU GET MAD WHEN PPL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT U WANT THEM TO DO LIKE BRO WE ARE ONE WEEK INTO THE COURSE NOBODY KNOWS WHAT UR ON ABOUT AND ALSO CUZ HER EXPLANATIONS ARE SO ROUNDABOUT AND UNCLEAR NOBODY CAN DECIPHER WHAT SHES ON ABOUT

5. when people tell her that they don't know what she's on about SHE JUST SAYS THE INSTRUCTIONS AGAIN like how tf is that gonna help bro they didn't say that they didn't hear u they said they can't understand what tf ur on about BROO

6. she seems to give the SUUUPER easy questions to the people that speak spanish and the really hard questions to the dumb ppl (and btw she should know who is spanish or not cuz 1 she can read our files and 2 in the 1st lesson she asked if anyone spoke spanish already) like there's a girl who lived in spain until like 2 years ago and her spanish is lit better than her english and the two questions she got asked were 'what's 3 in spanish' and 'how do you say red in spanish'!!! meanwhile the dumdum in the corner who doesn't even know the NUMBERS gets asked to read out and translate a whole paragraph and to spell long words and stuff MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

7. she gave us workbooks that are too big to fit into a ringbinder and not holepunched and she wants us to keep them in the ringbinders. also the lines of the books are 1.5cm!!! like the ones you give to primary school children who can't control how big they write

8. i did the work on my own lined paper cuz no way am i writing on those HUGE lines AND SHE CAME OVER AND EAS LIKE U HAVE TO WRITE IN THE BOOK (bearinh in mind the books are for us to take home just to do practise questions and stuff like it's not like she's taking them in or anything) so i told her like sorry but the lines are WAYY too big for me and she had a proper fit and was like well ur gonna have to sellotape ur work into the book like WHY TF DO U CARE WHETHER I WRITE ON MY PAPER OR UR PAPER BRO

9. she is SO disorganised like firstly she knows NOBODY'S names like not ONE person and also she has a seating plan chart but still seems to not be able to read it like she calls people by the weong name cuz she read her own chart wrong and then gets mad when they don't reply. also she sat 2 girls with the same name next to each other and then gets mad when they don't know which one she's referring to AND also omg homework soo she set 2 tasks one due friday and one due the following wednesday and on friday she was like okay can you show me ur homework (referring to the one due wednesday) and noone had it cuz like it was friday?? and she was like no u need to have it ready so i rold her bro i emailed u and u lit said we didn;t have to have it until wednesday and she was like show me so i whipped out my phone (which btw the college is super chill about, we are allowed to have our phones out) and showed her the email AND SHE GOT MAD AT ME SAYING RHAT I WASN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE YM PHONE OUT EVEN THO SHE ASKED TO SEE THE EMAIL???

10. she told us we HAVE to have the tesxtbook and bring it to every lesson. she told us on friday and we have to have it by TUESDAY like bro i had to pay for amazon prime to get it delivered in time GIVE SOME MROE NOTICE PLS

11. idk how to explain but she does NOT understand the vibe of the class like it's a small class of people who don't know each other and she's like 'just shout out the answer' like BRO any person with half decent social skills knows that's not gonna happen especially not in the FIRST WEEK of college like what are you on AND LITERALLY EVERYTHING SHE DOES NOT MATCH THE VIBE like for example everyone is doing the paired task she set and talking then suddently she interrupts the class to just say 'keep talking' like U RUINED THE FLOW BRO then everyone goes silent and she gets mad??? like who caused this issue bro it was YOU

ughhhh there are soooo many more things lmao but yeah i'll stop there before i anger myself anymore like i am genuinely considering dropping spanish cuz of this fricking teacher omds

someone else pls tell me they hate their teacher too cuz pls it can't just be me

tell me about ur worst teacher to make me feel better pls

i'm studying maths bio psych and spanish at alevel and i have a normal ringbinder folder to take in to college with dividers for each subject, and then i have 4 ringbinders that stay home to move completed work into so that i'm not carrying too much

i've been at college for one week and my ringbinder is FULL as in it has space for maybe 3 more sheets of paper. I haven't even been given any maths homework yet.

anyone else have the same problem??? i just keep getting given SO SO SO MUCH STUFF and SO MUCH HOMEWORK like it is manageable and i can do all the homework but i'm literally getting back pain from how much i'm carrying and i assume it's gonna keep growing in amount of stuff i have to bring in (i get that it's the first week and we get given loads of stuff in the 1st week but it's not like i'm not gonna get any more work after this, i'll just get it at a bit of a slower rate)

genuinely what to do like do i really need to be bringing in 2 folders every day?? my bag's nearly full as it is

does anybody else ever do this?? usually the worst i've done is saying some words in the wrong langauge (e.g. speaking 2nd language and accidentally say one or 2 words per sentence in 3rd language) but today i switched my duolingo from french to spanish (cuz i'm gonna be studying alevel spanish and thought i should refresh my memory a bit) and the first exercise was a speaking one and i read the whole sentence as if it was in french (like with french phonics and treating the words as if they were french e.g. silent t at the end yk) and it took me a solid minute to figure out what i'd done

does this mean my french is getting better or my spanish is worsening? also sometimes i forget words in my 1st language and say them in my 3rd cuz i forgot it in my 2nd WHY IS THIS SO CONFUSING

i lowk don't know how i'm gonna organise my stuff so i thought maybe i'd ask how you guys are gonna do yours

idk if anyone wants context but ur getting it anyway soo:

- i'm doing 3 stem subjects (maths bio psych) and then one language (spanish) cuz i speak spanish and thought it would be cool to get another qualification!!

- my college has said that we have to have an 'arch lever folder' for each subject, and they'll get checked every so often so it's mandatory to have one (i don't usually get on with those kinds of folders but i guess i'm gonna have to, so i bought 3 folders (i already had one from gcse) in black (£1.25 from sainsbury's), lilac, and navy (£2 each from WHSmith) and i think psych will be lilac, maths navy, spanish black, and the one i already had is like cardboardy and i'll use it for bio)

- i usually like to use anki for my revision (for all the gcse subjects that i actually revised, anki and past papers were all i did, other than maths which i just used anki for) so i think my plan is during free periods to make what i learnt into anki decks and then it'll build up and in 2 years i'll have made myself a complete anki deck for each of my subjects in a format that works for me!

- i'm gonna use normal exercise books (left over from school) to take notes in for bio, psych, and spanish. i'm gonna use a dotted notebook for maths cuz i find it gets messy if i don't have guidance for numbers lol

- i have bought 4 a5 notepads (they were 60p each lol) and the plan is to actually idk im gonna either use it to write down what i need to do for each subject and tick it off as i go orrr i'll use them as books to do hw in and stuff idk yet

soo based on that info i'm thinking:

take notes in class in exercise books (i actually need to find out if we're allowed to use laptops/ipads at all times in lessons or just sometimes cuz i have rlly bad hypermobility and it makes writing painful a lot of the time but typing isn't painful BUT that causes another issue that i'll have to print out all my notes cuz i like to have them physical not digital iykwim UGH this is so confusing)

during frees make stuff i've learnt into anki cards

move stuff into the big folders for each subject as i make them into anki cards so the only stuff in the exercise books is stuff not anki'd yet (but this is also confusing as the exercise books dont have rip-out-able pages, whilst my a5 ones do (and they're pre hole punched) but some teachers have requested we have a4 books whilst others have not specified

ARGHH this is so confusing pls help

sooo sometimes it’s sooo awks to make a whole aah post to say like one feeling or smt so i thought what if there was a post to say wtv you like whether you’re happy with your results or not so happy or want to vent or need advice or just want to read other people’s experiences in one place. lowk dk if this is gonna work or if it’s a shite idea i just thought of it and thought well its worth a shot lol soo ill whack some prompts to talk about in the comments so that its easier to sort by what you want to see and what you dont e.g. if you really dont wanna see other ppl’s results then just minimise the comment thread for results but keep the other ones open!

soo yeah lol

idk i was just thinking about my life and i just realised like wtf i hate who i am lmao like if i was me and i met me i would not like to be my friend 💔

not like im mean or rude or anything im just so freaking annoying and it seems that i dont realise it until i look back on it is this just me or pls pls pls say this is a universal experience because wtf i’m having a crisis rn

since i’ve only listened to the audiobooks (currently nearly halfway through onyx storm) i thought it would be fun to write out how i think some of the names are spelt, since i’ve never seen them written down

zayden ryerson
violet sorengale
dae (i think i read somewhere it’s meant to be deigh or something)
dane atos
tiern
mirah sorengale
riddick
general melgrin
jack barlow
aratia
bezgaieth
endarna
rhiannon
liam and sloane marey
body (i just realised it written down doesn’t sound like what it looks like in my head lol, apparently it’s body i?)
king tarey
sygail
professor kayori
professor carr

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