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Why ain't Italian popular?

DublinArnie · 2013-05-26 16:38:25

Not a lot of grinds avaiable and companies don't even bother making past-paper books or even mocks! It kinda bugs me that students that do Italian get an unfair disadvantage... I regret doing Italian because of this, I love the Language, but the help and material isn't there for us. I should of chose French:pac:. Anyone…

26-05-2013 4:38pm

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Not a lot of grinds avaiable and companies don't even bother making past-paper books or even mocks! It kinda bugs me that students that do Italian get an unfair disadvantage... I regret doing Italian because of this, I love the Language, but the help and material isn't there for us. I should of chose French:pac:. Anyone who does italian feel the same?

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#2 26-05-2013 5:38pm

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Why do Italian? :L There's no point.

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#3 26-05-2013 6:39pm

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It's not alone with no commercially-produced past papers, the other minority subjects have the same problem.

I suppose originally there were not as many Italian teachers as French and then as time went on, potential teachers decided on training for subjects they themselves had studied. I think there are probably people teaching Spanish or French who also have Italian in their degrees and 'could' teach it, but it's difficult to introduce a new subject without forcing people to take it.

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