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GarandMarine:
94ssd:
Got an email from the bookstore reminding me about my outstanding rentals...I rented $543 worth of books that I'd have to pay for at a lot of other colleges. The only thing they didn't have that I needed this semester was a $20 novel about political campaigns. Textbook rentals (included in tuition) are one of my favorite things about my school.
I especially enjoy the fact that if you get a book and end up not using it (our new Arabic professor decided she didn't like the $150 textbook/DVD combo the university had assigned to the course, and she ended up writing all the lessons without the aid of a book) you haven't wasted money.
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--- Quote from: 94ssd on 10 Dec 2014, 09:21 ---I especially enjoy the fact that if you get a book and end up not using it (our new Arabic professor decided she didn't like the $150 textbook/DVD combo the university had assigned to the course, and she ended up writing all the lessons without the aid of a book) you haven't wasted money.
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Oh Arabic, how I hated you, so, so much... I have like 4 Arabic books still cause no one buys them back. Also, I have 4 despite only needing 2... where did these books come from?
94ssd:
Learning it without a textbook was a good experience. I only picked up a fair amount of new vocab from this semester, not the amount I'd expect from an Intermediate I course, but I have dictionary. Instead I learned a metric shit-ton of grammatical rules that the books weren't going to cover until later. The professor is of the opinion that the best way to learn a language is by speaking it as much as possible rather than by just memorize lists and rules. I feel like that approach has improved my ability to functionally use the language.
explicit:
Both my teachers did the same, grammar was covered but not really studied in depth. I forgot pretty much everything except basic stuff and I only stopped learning it last year... I also can't speak it for shit, my teacher would make fun of me constantly
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