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French 2nd Year (how Hard Is 2g03?)

 
Old 07-09-2008 at 05:44 PM   #1
ms. mandazi
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French 2nd Year (how Hard Is 2g03?)
I wanted to take FR 2B03/2BB3 in September as well as 2G03 (French Lang Practice: Elementary Translation).
Last term, I kinda struggled with FR 1A06 and was wondering just how good my French has to be to get a good grade in the translation course or whether I should wait to do it after I have done 2B03/BB3.
Any advice out there?
Old 07-09-2008 at 09:18 PM   #2
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I think French 2G03 is a really good course for polishing up sentence structure and style. You learn a lot of ways to avoid over-used, bland English-French translations, which helps you later on to develop better writing skills. You should have a good foundation in French, but note that the course is done in both English and French, which may help you out...

I had Dr. Rush last year for this course, and found her very picky. She always wanted it to be translated only the way she apparently thought it was right, so I think a lot of people did very poorly on the assignments (of which there were 5). Course work were graded pretty hard; tests weren't so bad.

However this year, it seems that Dr Banks is teaching so things may be different. I have heard good things about her so far, but unfortunately cannot tell you the actual ease level of the course because of this change.
Old 09-26-2008 at 11:36 AM   #3
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Hi nh99
Thanks so much for your feedback. I stayed in the course and you were right it is helping me with ma french. Would replied sooner but forgot ma macinsider's password lol



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