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French department

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  • 15-05-2006 12:30am
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    Mordecai
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    i hear rumours that it isn't any good in ucd and i hear the same about the 1 in trinity. i want to do french! what's it like there?


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    hullaballoo
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    The French Department here isn't too bad. What specifically did you hear was bad?


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    Mordecai
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    the daughter of a teache of mine goes there and says it's terrible. I don't really know tbh.


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    hullaballoo
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    I don't think it's too bad. Admittedly, I don't study French here myself, but I've got a few friends who do. They seem to think it's pretty good. Again, I don't have any idea how it compares to other colleges, but I'm not sure that too many other people in here will either. Sorry not to be of more help!


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    83ste
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    Doing my French finals at the mo... they're not great to be honest, especially the native French lecturers, there's a bit of a culture clash there. There's one or two nice lecturers, but most of them are either very boring or very stereotypical up-their-own-arse academics.

    As you move up through 1st, 2nd and 3rd year it becomes progressively more literature-based and less language-based. Fine, if you like that sort of thing, but if you were planning on learning how to speak French, it's not worth it!

    I did Erasmus in Bordeaux year and it was a great experience. If you're not planning on doing this though, it's not really worth the hassle.

    Consider European Studies in Trinity... you do two languages (some can be taken as a beginner) and focus completely on communication and grammar, including a year abroad.

    Happy to answer any more specific questions...


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    snickerpuss
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    I know some people doing French and they seem mostly happy with it but they did mention odd/scary native lecturers.


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    staple
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    If you're really keen on being more fluent in the language, I hear DCU is very good.

    With any arts course in UCD, it's largely what you make of it: you don't have a lot of contact time, so most of your time is spent in 'private study' ie labs, library.


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