Does anybody else dislike their foreign language class?

metsfanAJM
Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:48:13 +0000

We spend most of the time in IB Spanish either watching telenovelas, or reading articles and answering the questions in our textbooks. A few times a marking period, we have to do oral presentations and in-class essays, but overall, the workload isn’t too intense, especially in comparison to the IB French class, and my other IB classes in general. We get homework almost every night - usually it’s just a few questions in our textbook - but it takes me no more than five minutes to do, so I do it either in the morning or the class before Spanish. Also, we have to spend at least 30 minutes a week playing Spanish vocab games, which is really helpful and worth ~50% of our total marking period grade.

I’ve always liked learning new languages, so in general, I like Spanish class. It can get frustrating at times since everything is 100% in Spanish and we’re not allowed to speak English, but I still get mostly A’s in the class, and will probably be in Spanish Honor Society next year.