I was given German in year 7.
In year 8 I chose Spanish.
I did German for GCSE & AS.
Owned.
"Be nice. Think happy thoughts. Champion silver linings. Love all things (not just cute things like babies and kittens) & when you do love - love like they do in power ballads (you know like on a cliff with the wind in your hair and your eyes shut, knowing you'll never know love like this). Watch out for dog poo. Smile at people - even grumpy ones. Remember anything is possible & whatever you do always try to look on the bright side."
I can understand that you don´t like German that much.
The grammar is sooo complicated and even me make a lot of mistakes.
It's strange, because I really like what little I've seen of Germany and much as I understand and can speak the language (albeit not very well), it's not something I have a great affinity with. French, on the other hand, to me sounds all lovely and romantic.
At my school, you have to do one language GCSE - depending on what side you're put in in year 7 - and then you can choose to do the other language from year 10 to 11, for a GCSE.
I was put on the left side, which meant I was doing French - which was good, as my Gran lives over there and I knew some stuff already. However, I chose to do German as a GCSE, and just having two years to cram in around 5 years worth of stuff is very tricky. Although, even if the worst comes to the worst with my results this time next year, I have got a cool German exchange partner from it, along with some German. :]
I love languages in general, but I do prefer the sound & all with French, and the German word order does put me off. x
I did GCSE French, in 1996 - compulsory then (I think). Only other option was German and I couldn't get my tongue round that in year 9 and seemed to have done ok in French previously.
I havent actually done it yet but French, double english and welsh.
If only you'd ever speak to me
the way you once did
look at me the way you once did
pull to me the way you once did
but you don't
you don't feel anymore
you don't care anymore
it's all gone
it's all gone
I did GCSE French, in 1996 - compulsory then (I think).
It would have been, yes. It was 2004 that it was made optional, so the first people who wouldn't have to do a language would have started their GCSE courses in 2005 and be getting their results now. Going by a number of comments on this thread, it seems that quite a few schools are still making people do at least one foreign language.
I sat my GCSE's June 2003 and I had to do a foreign language which for me was French. My sister just sat her GCSE's and got her results yesterday but now a FL isn't compulsory, they've made ICT compulsory instead although she was sitting spanish but then she had issues in year 10 and ended up dropping everything but maths,english and science but there were quiet a few people who I was chatting to at the school yesterday who had sat a Modern foreign language and there scores were all like A's and A*s.
Life can be beautiful if you let it.
Step back, breathe and take it in
I did french and latin and learn some ancient greek but never ended up taking the exam
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When I did my gcses it was compulsory to do one foreign language (which you studied from year 7) and you could pick up another one in year 9 and take that for gcse as well if you wanted. So I did Spanish as my first modern language and German as my second, and took Latin as well.
