I'm in French 1010, because I am not allowed to test into higher levels of more than one language at a time and I refused to take beginning German again. Stupid rule, but my French is weak and the fact that it's a refresher for me means an easy A. Cool, right? The problem: the professor speaks awful English and therefore is teaching immersion. So we "don't need to know" about verb conjugations or plural forms or, you know, anything beyond "Hi, my name is Martinis and I am a student. I speak English. I am from America. Where are you from?" Anything beyond that is too complex for now. It is incredibly frustrating for me to go to class every day.
I am starting to understand the dumbing-down impulse. We had to buy a workbook. It came with a CD. One exercise is to review the alphabet. Above the printed alphabet in the book, it says "listen." As of this moment, there is a discussion on the class message board involving twenty students about how dumb this book is to assume they don't know the alphabet, and why would reading letters help them speak French anyway? None of them have figured out how to work the CD yet.
I don't know how much this poor French lady gets paid, but it ain't enough.
ETA: gif reflects my confusion over whether I should be punching the stupid people or dancing that these are the people making up the curve.
