after reading a bitter French thread and with someone suggesting it on it

decdec456 · 23-09-2008 2:33pm #1

Is German and indeed Russian, Italian, Spanish and Polish Depts. poor aswell?

Boston · 23-09-2008 2:35pm

Nah, the French department is infamously and uniquely bad. I don't even do French and I've heard the stories.

decdec456 · 23-09-2008 2:42pm

Boston wrote: »

Nah, the French department is infamously and uniquely bad. I don't even do French and I've heard the stories.

right so i shouldn't fear doing a language based degree in trinity then?

cos i really want to

Boston · 23-09-2008 2:50pm

No idea, maybe you should! But I wouldn't tar all the departments with the same brush.

Ron DMC · 23-09-2008 3:00pm

All the different languages are managed seperately. People doing Spanish will have a completely different experience to anyone who does German or Russian etc.

I know the Irish department fairly well and apart from being fairly laid back and perhaps a little unorganised, the standard of teaching is very very high and I've rarely heard complaints on course content.

It will also depend what you make of it, the lecturers and staff can only do so much, it really falls upon the student themselves to study in their own time and put efforts into assignments and the like.

blucey · 23-09-2008 6:12pm

decdec456 wrote: »

Is German and indeed Russian, Italian, Spanish and Polish Depts. poor aswell?

Shouldnt that be "are the ....poor as well"....? As we are on the language line

raah! · 23-09-2008 10:38pm

I think I may switch to beginner russian because of that thread. But this is a big disadvantage, i was looking forward having fluent at french (after however many years of high quality french teaching0

defiantshrimp · 23-09-2008 10:48pm

German department is pretty cool, not at all like the stories I hear about the French department.

after reading a bitter French thread and with someone suggesting it on it

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