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@jaelob

8 ай бұрын

It can help military members too. They need it more. Very different approach to military philosophy.

My aunt had to learn French for work. She spoke not a word going to Paris, but they started her working in a bakery. People would point at what they wanted; help making change, talk about the wwweather and politics and sports, etc. She then spent 40+ years working in French-speaking African countries. Plus she knows all about croissants and baguettes!

@SenorJuan2023

8 ай бұрын

So do you speak French or bake bread?

@dutchreagan3676

8 ай бұрын

@@SenorJuan2023 yes.

@SenorJuan2023

8 ай бұрын

@@dutchreagan3676 Both? and if you're female, will you marry me? :)

@dutchreagan3676

8 ай бұрын

@@SenorJuan2023 nope

@iloveyoububba

7 ай бұрын

​@@SenorJuan2023I'm a male, we can marry ;)))

I graduated in 1980 from Japanese, Went directly to Tokyo and served nine years. When I first arrived my unit had some funds they needed to spend before the end of the fiscal year. They bought me over 400 hours of direct face-to-face speaking lessons at Berlitz. My speaking ability improved significantly. I left the Army in 1989, processed out and returned to Tokyo to work for a Japanese company. I'm still here and am now a Permanent Resident, all the rights and privileges of a citizen except I can't vote. That's now 43 years. DLI was a good beginning. Berlitz was a great after course.

@jamesbond-xl3xs

8 ай бұрын

Great job and story. What would be your advice to a newbie wanting to learn Japanese who knows nothing right now and wants to focus on being able to understand spoken Japanese and speak primarily? Any courses or methods you would recommmend? Also is the Berlitz totally taught in the target language? Thanks in advance.

@normdancy

Ай бұрын

After graduation from the DLI course I arrived in Tokyo and would mentally form a sentence in English, translate word for word into Japanese then attest to say the sentence in Japanese. After attending Berlitz sessions I no longer had to form what I wanted to say in English. I jar said what I wanted to say in Japanese. @@jamesbond-xl3xs

Did two languages at DLI and taught there. It really is the most intensive language school in the world.

@SenorJuan2023

8 ай бұрын

Which two languages? How long were you in the service?

@Fit_soldier

6 ай бұрын

I’m also thinking of going to DLI!!!

@JustinMay74

6 ай бұрын

Mandarin and Thai. I did 20+. I now use my languages for the Lord. @@SenorJuan2023

@JustinMay74

6 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy and get the language you desire. It is a mental challenge, but I'm sure you can do it. @@Fit_soldier

@ethandouro4334

2 ай бұрын

Do they accept foreigners?

Man this brings back memories. I studied Arabic at the DLI/FLC. I think the worst part was the number drills. So. Many. Number drills. Most of my instructors were very nice people but weren't necessarily skilled at teaching so a big part of the experience is taking responsibility for your own learning journey. Often class mates or friends in other classes would get together, on breaks, over lunch, or weekends and just hang out and have study sessions. Before going to DLI I was trialing another military language program for a year where I studied primarily French but also dabbled in a few others. When I got my orders to DLI I began teaching myself Arabic from whatever resources I could find. I ended up learning the script in a couple of weeks (about twice as long as it took me to teach myself the Cyrillic script for Russian). So after months of studying Khaliji Arabic and French side by side I totally screwed myself over. They taught us MSA almost exclusively for the first year or so before they started throwing in 3 common dialects. So I had to unlearn so much and was still inadvertently switching into French during the more difficult extemporaneous speaking exercises.

Speaking as a soldier who has attended DLI twice (Korean and Arabic), it's actually more like four hours of homework a night, though how long it takes has a lot to do with your skill in the language. What takes four hours in the first semester might only take two hours by semester three.

@daveh9941

2 ай бұрын

How comfortable did you feel speaking the language after the training? Im a civilian and plan on doing the FSI Spanish basic

This sounds amazing. I would love to go to a language boot camp like that- just don’t want to join the military.

@jaelob

8 ай бұрын

There used to be government programs where CIA would pay your tuition in colleges to learn a language if you sign up with them for a number of years. They would recruit on campuses like the military does, but Democrats were anti-CIA back then, thought it was pro-Republican, and always voted them down. Many high schools and colleges forbid military recruitment for the same reasons.

@dzikijohnny

8 ай бұрын

That's ok...you couldn't get in. They have high standard that you can't meet. US Navy Nuke Ret. My School makes this one looks like Elementry School.

@AndyGneiss

8 ай бұрын

Take a look at Olly's video on the Middlebury Language Schools immersion program. It's a pretty intense program, but seems like the closest thing to the DLI program. That video is titled "Is This the World's Best Language Immersion School?" and is from Aug 24, 2022.

@lusiusquietus7510

7 ай бұрын

@@dzikijohnnygood for you bro, I hope that’s your noggin in your pfp. You’re a real jack*ss

@tonysmith7702

7 ай бұрын

@@dzikijohnny Good for you, do you want a cookie? You only made a remark to say your nuke school was harder. Pathetic.

I was at DLI three times. I knew Spanish from the MTC and being a Missionary in Buenos Aires and took Czech. I returned for Arabic and went back and became a MLI. This meant I was in Monterey CA for a total of about 10 years. I have a BS in Arabic studies, an MS in Teaching Arabic and after 10 years of setting it aside, I am back using the skills I learned by translating from English to Arabic and transcribing handwritten Arabic into printed Arabic. I returned to MLI and spoke to a School Head about the language learning there. It has improved greatly since my days and would hope that those going enjoy the school and the area.

Definitely a bit different from what I experienced there (we didn't have VR stuff, we were just transitioning to macbooks and ipods/ipads, and consequently lost the curriculum lol. Also didn't have PFC Lingo), but it's... mostly the same. Our teachers definitely spoke English alongside their language, and we would end up teaching each other (I understand some of the classes do adhere to the class language-only rule, though). The schedule was a bit rough. PT, 4 hours of instruction, lunch, 3 hours of instruction, some homework until study hall which was 2 hours, then more homework. Ended up being just 10-12ish hours per day of nothing but language stuff, depending on how much military stuff got thrown in and how your teaching team dealt with homework. Also, B- and below was the unofficial failing grade. I'd probably do it again, though. Stressful, but a good time overall, and you get a language out of it.

I am so happy to discover this Chanel The content of it so motivating, encouraging, and stimulating xxx

Wow! Thanks for sharing.

I would honestly love this for my target language

The "extra hour" at the end of the day, otherwise known as "7th hour," is actually mandatory, unless your grades are top notch. Here's a humorous video put together by a DLI student: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYOTrtF8p6qvaKQ.html

some of the best times of my life were spent doing immersion language classes

This is fascinating! Keep these amazing videos coming.

@storylearning

8 ай бұрын

affirmative!

@essexitagermeng5504

2 ай бұрын

I agree. I appreciate this series about the most effective language courses and the research that goes into it very much. Thank you ❤️

I studied there as enlisted. It is intensive and thorough. You're in Active Duty immersed and military dead serious.

I studied Korean at DLI, and I hated that everything was focused on context, like the soldier said, don't get hung up on one word, try to get the gist. I suppose because it helps with the military job, but it went totally against the grain and every fiber of my personality. It's a lot of guess work involved, which can very easily end up putting you in error when peoples lives are at stake. Only later did I become aware of intelligible input, (which this is opposite) and your story methods. I wish so bad I knew about all that back then and implemented them fully from day one at DLI in my personal time. I would have done so much better, not only performance wise, but also stress and attitude and everything.

@Fit_soldier

6 ай бұрын

I want to go to DLI next year do you know if I will be able to learn Portuguese?

@jaelob

6 ай бұрын

@@Fit_soldier From what I know, they choose your language according to need. And they mostly need languages of potential or existing enemies. As Portugal and Brazil are allies, it's mostly learned by officers for diplomatic reasons. If youre in the military, you can ask around, they may be able to give more details.

The time I have spent teaching adults various thing makes me amazed they can get many people to keep up with the pace. I went to a prep school and most importantly we learned how to learn: We learned to get handed books to read and other large-effort assignments and told what we need to do within a certain time frame. No one checked on you, you just got it done well and on time, or you went home and someone off the waitlist was happy to take your place. My experience has been that the vast majority of normal, intelligent adults are not good at this "independent, highly motivated study" that 2-4 hrs of homework requires, esp. not for several weeks on end.

I wish I had a teacher or something to just talk to and hear often to learn Portuguese. Learning by myself is very hard and very loooooong. After over a year and a half I barely understand anything in Portuguese and never really been able to speak. The one time I tried I was just choking and couldn't get a word out with a friend due to not being able to understand them, and being scared and just felt like I forgot everything.

@tonyriddle5491

8 ай бұрын

Have you been to the Portugues com Marcia Macedo or The Speaking Brazilian You Tube channels, of course these are Brazilian Portuguese. You didn't specify. Boa sorte

@bellamorts

8 ай бұрын

espero que você consiga reaprender português (e também entender algo do que estou escrevendo aqui); português é minha língua nativa

@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157

8 ай бұрын

@@bellamorts posso ler e escrever, mais ou menos. Aprendendo claro então a gramática não é ótimo as vezes (Muitas vezes 😂). A problema que é mais difícil é ouvir e compreender o que é sendo diz. Brasileiros falam muito rápido claro é as vezes tão rápido que não consigo acompanhar. (Escrevendo isso eu fiz usa a traduzir por talvez 6 palavras.. mas sem usar isso posso ainda escreve)r um pouco dos meus pensamentos com palavras básicas. 😊 Mas ainda, a maior problema é português falada. Muito difícil para um gringo que nunca aprendeu uma outra língua.

@jamesbond-xl3xs

8 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157 I love Portuguese from Brazil. I am currently learning Spanish though. When I was actively learning Portuguese, I would really do pretty much only listening: Pimsleur and FSI lessons. I was just listening. Then I got to where I would get on skype with a language partner from Brazil and I would just have them talk about their day or their week or some topic and I would just listen. Just input. No pressure to speak. I recorded the sessions so I could listen to them again too. After a while you begin to understand more words and more of what you hear and you also will begin to get the urge to speak more. You will think more in the language. There are also telenovelas set up for learners of Portuguese too. Just be consistent. When you are ready, then start practicing speaking more with language partners and/or tutors on say italki. Boa sorte e tchau.

@laudemar-A.B.6386

6 ай бұрын

​@@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157Claro que no nosso cotidiano nós falamos rápido 🤷 acho que é assim na maioria dos outros idiomas. A menos que você seja um aluno aprendendo português, o professor (a) falará devagar 😎

My son and daughter-in-law trained at DLI (Arabic). I enjoyed my visit immensely.

Been through DLI twice and it still didn't look like what you showed. Then again each schoolhouse within DLI has a vastly different methodology than the other. Different deans push down a different strategy to teaching team leads to try to hopefully get maximum pass rate.

When I was at AIT we had linguist in our training battalion, so while us Army Firefighters we’re off to the school house(DOD Fire-school), the linguists we’re off to a SCIF. Once they finished their AIT they were sent to Monterey DLI. I had few good friends who were studying Persian Farsi,Korean, a few others.

Nice!!!

@storylearning

8 ай бұрын

thanks!

I went through in 93-94 for Arabic. The pedagogy appears to have changed quite a bit since then. But, I suppose technology has pushed a lot of that.

@mattblackwell9000

8 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. Basic MSA in 93-94, then Intermediate MSA in 01-02 (9/11 was a weird class day). It was nothing like this. I will say that the current grads coming out are way better than I ever hoped of being coming out of the basic class.

Hi from DLI, Air Force Chinese student here!

@Educa69

8 ай бұрын

Good Luck, You'll need it.

@Jerald_Fitzjerald

8 ай бұрын

@@Educa69 I'm halfway through the course lol I think I've pretty much got a handle on the time management. On top of that, I have a really good and responsive teaching team!

@furyrussian8663

8 ай бұрын

How do you note take as a language student?

@Educa69

8 ай бұрын

I'am glad for you, Jerald.@@Jerald_Fitzjerald

Wow, if I were college age now, this would have been my dream come true!

I really feel that speaking in front of others is my Achilles heel. I do great by myself and in front of my son, but when I go to speak in front of other native speakers... I feel like I sound stupid. My physician friend and co-worker who is bilingual (well, technically I guess he's trilingual) puts it to me this way: our spanish families who try very hard to use English probably feel that way too, so don't let that get in your way because they'll mostly appreciate your efforts more than anything. It's a work in progress!

Any chance you could do a follow -up of this video on DLTP?

Speaking practice the brutal way in my grandfather's style- put a student at the top of the staircase. Ask him to start speaking. And keep repeating all the time "Louder. I can't hear you from here." To make things harder start walking away from the staircase. Yes, he was both working in translation and teaching. All his students cried at first. Later on even most declared foreign language haters studied foreign languages. Yes, the routine I got a chance to taste as well. Brutal yet effective. In case you don't have a staircase use to different rooms or stay inside a building and make someone to shout back to you through the open window. Hardcore version from translators school: play heavy metal loudly. Preferably few different bands at the same time at high volume, from 4 corners of the same room. And ask people to do " assisted translation" with a group of people around them. Been there, done that as well. ;-)

I took Spanish in the 7th grade and the teacher was a professor from the local university. On day two he spoke only Spanish.

This does sound really fun. Im doing this currently with Russian and Georgian. Can you do a video on the Georgian language?

@will_spin

8 ай бұрын

Yessss i would also love to see a video dedicated to Georgian ❤❤

@maryjanerx

8 ай бұрын

@@will_spin გამარჯობა

@will_spin

8 ай бұрын

@@maryjanerx gamarjoba to you as well :D unfortunately I don't know any Georgian yet (aside from some of the letters) but I'll def learn it some time in the future, it's a beautiful language!

@maryjanerx

8 ай бұрын

@@will_spin deda is mom დედა and mama is dad მამა,... mamatsi მამაცი means brave.

Uncle Olly's straightforward face everytime he asks us to do the simple three steps, though... 😭😭🤣

I love how the story learning method doesn't baby me and that by the end of the chapter I'm surprised at how many questions I get right. With that said I would still love to see what it be like to improve languages by way of laddering two languages while reading parallel text (there's just not enough of those books out there) like improving my Portuguese with Spanish, improving Arabic with French, improving Hindi with Arabic. Or Turkish with Spanish.

@jamesbond-xl3xs

8 ай бұрын

Any resources or techniques you know of for this laddering? I know a little Portuguese but am actively learning Spanish. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt

8 ай бұрын

@@jamesbond-xl3xs I don't understand why my initial reply didn't show up?

@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt

8 ай бұрын

@@jamesbond-xl3xs also the clozemaster is a great app

@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt

8 ай бұрын

@@jamesbond-xl3xs another cool way to ladder is to get on Duolingo and scroll down to the bottom of the languages section to look for more languages then you enter into the languages that are in Portuguese french Arabic and all the languages that are not English that you can learn another language in so you can learn Portuguese from French or you can learn Portuguese from Spanish.

Yeah, what I was thinking. Structured repetition. Most learners hate this nowadays but I swear by this method ever since... I managed to master my own native language due to being born abroad and having to learn it as a foreign language, very closely related to Russian that I have learnt as first human natural language ever. What was hard since similarities between my native language and Russian are totally confusing. Like gender. What is feminine in one can be masculine in another one and vice vera. I even learnt Polish ortography by structured repetition , not by learning rules or theory. Plus reading. Crazy, crazy amount of reading. And radio listening with my granny. She couldn't understand my Russian at all at first, soout of boredom she played radio non stop in the kitchen. Lots of great audio input.

I helped tutoring a DLI student for mandarin. I’m surprised the intensity of teaching there. The listening and reading training seem great but not enough for speaking practice. The materials can also be updated to more current in my opinion. Students worked really hard and earned all my respects. I only hope the language training will not be wasted in the end, so they can be deployed to the region to continue, practice and use it.

No English rule works well. I had something like this in real life with a native speaker of Spanish from Madrid in Sweden. And we didn't speak Swedish too well and he didn't speak any other language but Spanish for real. Even complete beginners spoke in Spanish by the end of 3 week. We had only on savior in our group- a native Swede who was half-Mexican guy. Just in case. But he was much more of a native Swede fluent in Swedish than a fluent Mexican Spanish speaker, so you can imagine what it was really like. What helped us? Watching a tv series in Spanish scene by scene, with simple dialogues together with this Spanish native speaker trying somehow to make a situation of each scene clearer, repeating words from the scene and such. And grammar books on Spanish. Written in Swedish, of course. Yeah, this was the second half of a year of my very first ever contact with Spanish.

I wish I could attend this school but I'll have to change my mos to an Intel job

DLI ❤

Man the memories. First time was '97-98, last time was '15-16 (with another stop in-between...stupid LCTLs, IYKYK)

I'd rather do that than upset Duo lingo owl.

@A-Hui309

8 ай бұрын

Haha, just wait till your teacher tells you “you’re a failure, isn’t your family embarrassed!” Bc you got an 80% on a test.

this is hella interesting woah

@storylearning

8 ай бұрын

I hoped it would be!

This is way more intense than the Berlitz method.

Ahh, good old DLI! I enjoyed my year there.

@SenorJuan2023

8 ай бұрын

What language?

Yes, it is a linguist dream. I could help them with Russian but would ove to get some Persian Farsi in exchange. ;-) Seriously. Sounds like a university of my dreams coming true. I wouldn't mind spending a few years there. Each of them with a completely different language ( preferably). Only mandarine of high interest now? Not Korean or Japanese ? If I were in their shoes I would get more interest in those as well. BA in Russian? I wonder what do they learn about Russian history. Would be interesting to see what their understanding of the Russian history and politics is based on. Could you interview someone on this for more details? If possible of course.

I had applied during my military days for DLI and was scheduled to be sent, but ended up being rerouted to a different MOS due to quotas. I still regret that every day.

@storylearning

8 ай бұрын

what a shame!

💙💙💙

No new script for me lol. I was in the army for 6 years and i wouldnt mind going back for spanish but im sure they dont need it

What is the closest thing we have to this in the UK?

@JustinMay74

8 ай бұрын

I’ve seen UK military attend DLI, so none that I’m aware of

1:17 "Я говорю по русский язык хорошо" No, friend, you're not :D But it's ok, we all have to start somewhere

If you were dropped somewhere where the locals couldn't speak english or any language you speak and there are no source material for learning in your languages, how long does it take to learn their language? Historically, this would've been the case. When the europeans first landed in india or southeast asia, when there were no translators

Sounds very much like the Oulpan method, developed by the Israelis to teach hebrew. I learned Welsh with this method.

@jamesbond-xl3xs

8 ай бұрын

What's that consist of?

Dude, anything is harder than University of Pittsburgh 😂

Why don't you add an English CC to your youtube video clips? I'm sure it would be very helpful~:)

@storylearning

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

The school is in Monterey, Ca. If they sold the property, they could build an aircraft carrier.

@1:17 «Я говорю _по русский язык_ хорошо»(c) Ну, чтобы сдаться в плен, думаю, этого уровня хватит. 😉

They don't teach Portuguese :'(

@Fit_soldier

6 ай бұрын

I’m going to DLI next year and I’m hoping they have Brazilian Portuguese😢

@Fit_soldier

6 ай бұрын

My wife is from brasil

Do the students have a say in what language they will learn?

@d.lawrence5670

8 ай бұрын

Depends on where the government posts them. If they post you in Korea, well, you're learning Korean.

@tobarstep

8 ай бұрын

They will assign you to whatever language you qualified for (and they have a need for). If you score high enough on the tests to qualify for say Mandarin or Arabic, you'll get put in those. You may have had your heart set on German, but you scored too high on the test for them to "waste" your potential.

@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle

8 ай бұрын

No, they will put you where they need you.

@JustinMay74

8 ай бұрын

Sometimes, but it’s a choice of what is available

@tonysmith7702

7 ай бұрын

@@tobarstep Nope, they put you were they need you in the Airforce regardless of your score. If you pass the DLAB test, you qualify for all languages. When I was at DLI, they had people with High scores in Spanish and low scores in Arabic. It is up to the military.

So basically I could go in with Spanish and feel less stress but anything else and I'd be broken lol

Do all military personnel take these intense courses before going to a certain country? Because I could say that none of the US military people stationed in Okinawa come speaking any Japanese…. Barely “good morning” and “thank you”. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@entropie138

5 ай бұрын

As a former Marine that was stationed in Okinawa for a year, no, not all servicemembers go through as intense a language program as this. They have to train on their specific Military Occupational Specialty for months and extra training time on the finer points of a language is not something the Defense Department wants to spend extra training dollars on those not meant to do translating or higher up functions. Luckily for me, watching a lot of anime and early working on learning hiragana, katakana, and some kanji, I made out okay with my year abroad.

If you go there, better hope you get a good teaching team. Most of the teachers are great, but If you don’t, welcome to hell for a year plus. Expect to be publicly shamed (sometimes all in good fun) and humiliated by a teacher who says you’re stupid in front of the entire class bc you got an 80% or bc you mixed up the word for “panda” with “hairy chest”.

Microsoft Internet Explorer? Amirite?

Icelandic?

@thatbassist398

8 ай бұрын

Any advice on iceland?

@Fit_soldier

6 ай бұрын

@@thatbassist398ummm

I'm not grasping why learning a new language doesn't start with verbal learning, like a baby would in his native language. And then learn the alphabet and vocabulary and then reading and writing.... Why is learning a new language "backwards" than how we learned our first language??

US Navy Nuke Ret. Navy Nuclear Power School makes this one looks like Elementry School.

@jamesbond-xl3xs

8 ай бұрын

What's the schedule like for Navy Nuclear Power School?

@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt

8 ай бұрын

U from WPMo?

@tonysmith7702

7 ай бұрын

Who cares if you think nuke school is harder. This channel is about learning a language not about deciding which military school is harder.

Certainly, this method can be highly effective since you dedicate your entire day to language learning. However, it may not be suitable for everyone, as we all have other responsibilities and commitments beyond language learning.

@7:15 "high school wasn't preparing you to save lives...", while let us be honest, soldiers learning foreign languages can both defend and attack, and alas, since the end of world war 2, the world has witnessed more aggressive than defensive use of the military in one corner of the world, so while the methods are indeed "military standard" (ie. "good quality" and "efficient" and "effective"), it is quite saddening to see that these soldiers will inevitably use their acquired language skills not to make peace, rather, to kill those people whole language skills they learned... sad world we live in. Peace

"Я говорю ПО русскиЙ язык хорошо ", LMAO, he's already failed it 😆Although I must admit his pronunciation is far more better than any Russian-speaking foreigner I met before, as a native speaker I have immediately noticed this terrible mistake

@daseinstudioua2609

8 ай бұрын

The opinion of native speakers shouldn't be noticed. Because as russian and ukrainian native speaker myself I never really done anything to acquire that level which I have. It all sort of just came IN long time ago. But If your russian woudn't be native (Which means that you came through all circles of hell in order to know and speak it brilliantly) then your takes about cursed cases makes sense but not otherwise :D

@mevlutmertaltntas8578

8 ай бұрын

@@daseinstudioua2609 I don't get your point... I thought they are trained to sound like natives, at least as one of the purposes, and yet he fails at that basic phrase, that's why I laughed

@qyark

8 ай бұрын

@@mevlutmertaltntas8578 They aren't really trained to sound like native speakers. Obviously having a perfect Moscow accent is desirable, but if you leave with your Texas twang intact, but can understand and be understood, then that's all you need for the first year. They will continue to take language classes with DLI teachers throughout their careers, and will be expected to continuously improve each year.

@mevlutmertaltntas8578

8 ай бұрын

@@qyark I see now, but still my remark wasn't really about accent, it was about word order and cases

@Blackgriffonphoenixg

8 ай бұрын

yeah most Russian students here don't make that mistake past Semester 1...

Nope, sounds like too much work. You'd have to pay me to work this hard. I mean, these are full-time courses. You'd have to give up your day job and join the military to attend these classes, right? Speaking of the military, isn't it high time they declassified _Matrix_ style recliner training chairs, so that even civilians can benefit?

@shutterchick79

8 ай бұрын

The students do actually get paid.... They're all US military personal....

do yourself a favor, if you want to get in shape, don't steal fitness "secrets" from the US military hahahaha

None of these jug hooters actually learn the language they’re supposed to be learning.

Interesting. Tax payers pay for that 💲💸💲💸💲💸

the US army is cringe

@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245

8 ай бұрын

*angry bootlicker noises*

Definitely a bit different from what I experienced there (we didn't have VR stuff, we were just transitioning to macbooks and ipods/ipads, and consequently lost the curriculum lol. Also didn't have PFC Lingo), but it's... mostly the same. Our teachers definitely spoke English alongside their language, and we would end up teaching each other (I understand some of the classes do adhere to the class language-only rule, though). The schedule was a bit rough. PT, 4 hours of instruction, lunch, 3 hours of instruction, some homework until study hall which was 2 hours, then more homework. Ended up being just 10-12ish hours per day of nothing but language stuff, depending on how much military stuff got thrown in and how your teaching team dealt with homework. Also, B- and below was the unofficial failing grade. I'd probably do it again, though. Stressful, but a good time overall, and you get a language out of it.