LOTE by correspondence or Distance Ed.

[tom.sharkie]

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Hi!
I'm doing Chinese SL (unit 1+2) this year by correspondence.
Just wondering if anyone else has studied or is studying a language by correspondence or distance ed.
How are you going with it....
For those of you who have done it... Any advice for us?

[jazzmuzik]

Hi I replied to a similar thread not long ago, Although i studied japanese and not chinese the advice still applies. Heres what i wrote

Hey there,
I did Japanese continuers by distance Ed last year as well, cause i was the only one. (mums a japanese teacher too so i thought it would be ok) In hindsight i kinda regret it because it was really hard keeping up with the work. Each week you would have a worksheet/s to complete and therefore there is no time to study and revise cause your too busy trying to keep up. My advice for this type of learning then is, no matter how much you hate it and think 'it'll be fine" REVISE a couple of weeks back every now and again so you dont forget stuff. Otherwise you get to the exam period and have to almost relearn heaps of basic things. Also learn and revise KANJI ALL the Time! it will really help.
Yeah good luck with it, not meaning to scare you out of it or anything, but yeah time management is difficult. Its hard to get band 6's in japanese so just keep revising no matter how much it sucks to at the time...and if you can get in contact with any native speakers or other jap students to talk with in japanese thats good. once you are learning it a more practical context, eg. just "chatting" its made more bearable.

good luck with it

[tom.sharkie]

Yeah! thanks a lot !
I think I will kinda be able to cope hopefully!

Japanese is hard, but kanji are easy....going into year 12 japanese this year...presently I am armed with approximately 2600 kanji (and its growing daily)
Yes, I do know what kanji are and yes no fooling, hand ot god i know about 2600 of them for active use.

Hopefully it should help, last year it was great can write so much more in less page space....

But, back to topic, I think anyone who is doing a language by correspondence needs to like buddy up with someone else who is doing the same language nad have like chats u know!

lol crazy idea I know, U'll get used to it.....

[jazzmuzik]

If your that ahead with your Kanji already you should be well equipped for the course, sounds like your dedicated to it anyway. Good luck.
Yeah your right, pair up with another student if you can, and talk talk talk. speaking helps everything in the end...

[uniform]

I did the Spanish course in year 11 through distance education.
The two things which i found challenging with distance education was the lack of teacher-student practise conversations, and going to the library by myself, concentrating, and doing the work. Often i found myself just leaving homework to send in until the end of the week, and doing a rushed job. My best advice would be to make really good use of telephone conversations with your correspondence teacher - call him/her up whenever you have questions - consistent dialogue is so important, and to just lock yourself in a private room when you're doing the course work so you don't get distracted.

[tom.sharkie]

Sounds like its a lot of work per week!
I'm getting more worried now......

[uniform]

No, it's really not a lot of work per week - you have nothing to worry about at all! In fact, I think with distance ed, they give you coursework at a slower and much steadier pace so you have time to teach yourself properly... but i'm just saying don't let the easy work pile up and leave it to the last minute - because you can, with no-one keeping track of you every lesson.

[tom.sharkie]

OK, thanks again!
I have a lot of chinese friends so I will make them police me a bit!
It's gonna be good this year I think....
Do you know by any chance when the first workset comes... just so I have an approximate time by which I will need to organise myself?

[courtneyanne]

hey,
distance education is hard.

like really really hard. well for me anyway, i'm doing indonesian plus a full VCE and im heaps behind. i do it through the VSL.
its alright and all that but there is so much work to do plus your normal study and homework that you'd have to be SUPER organized to handle it all.
for anyone who is planning on doing it. don't. unless you have a subject less at school so you get extra frees to do it in.
anyways,
xx

[msiatlsc]

hey i did Indo by correspondance. I had the advantage of being a malaysian so language wise it wasnt so difficult what was difficult was balancing two year twelve subjects and four year eleven subjects and a family breakdown....keep working, organisation is soo important when you're doing by correspondance so be organised, LOVE your dictionary and phone coz tat is a way to communicate wit ur teacher..buddy up with someone so tat u can practise and listen tyo the news and songs of tat lang..for me, igrew up in malaysia and ppl ard me spoke malay so i got the slang adn knew how to speak and pronounce and moving here i try to watch teh Indo news as often as i can...so in summary, exposure, patience, perservance and organisation= success in lang by correspondance

[EvilRobotMan]

Ahh, I am doing 2009 HSC, but my school doesn't offer any languages beyond Year 7 Japanese. I really wanted to do German for beginners, question:

Can I redo both the prelim/HSC course in 2010 for LOTE at a different school that offers it, and then have those 2 units put towards my HSC 2009 marks to create a new UAI?