|Music| ‘Von hier an Blind’ - Wir sind Helden
This is quite sad. All I’ve been able to post about online is about JC, JC and MORE JC. I wish I could stop, but even though I hate to admit it, I probably spend more time at JC than I do at home, not that I can help it. It’s not that I hate JC, but I just miss the times when I had the house all to myself in the late afternoons just lazing about day dreaming. I guess I can be thankful that even though my life is quite hectic and busy and school ends really late, I don’t get much homework, or much homework that I hate to do(or can’t even UNDERSTAND, which is worse) because like I said, I’m done with Sciences.
The subject that I need to put in more effort for is German, because I kind of missed out on an entire year of German education when I got a really crappy teacher in Sec 3 that didn’t even teach properly and just talked to himself for most of the lessons. Now, I realise that everyone else in class seems to have less of a problem with vocabulary than I do, but like my classmate said to me, it’s amazing that I even made it to J1 H2 with that teacher in Sec 3 so I’m staying because I like German and anyway, I qualify for it.
I’m raelly happy with my German teacher this year because she kind of makes us speak German to her and she always speaks German to us(unlike past teachers who just took the easy way out by speaking English) so I can already feel myself improving even though its only the second week!
Another thing that annoys be about taknig German for H2 is that I can no longer keep it a secret when others ask about my subject combination. When I took it as an extra subject for O Levels, I just needed to tell them that I took double sciences with 2 other humanities and they left it at that because that’s the normal combination. But now, its no longer an extra subject so I can’t exclude it when I tell others my subject combination of 4 H2s(German included, obviously).
And like I mentioned I don’t like to tell others that I take H2 German, why?
Because firstly, lots of people have this misconception that the standard of H2 German is as high as the standard of say, H2 GP. In reality the standard of the language of H2 German is only about slightly higher than PSLE English(though the quality of the CONTENT involved is about GP standard) because A Level German is set as a FOREIGN language, hence the lower standard. So most people will think that you can speak German like a native just because you studied it for 4 years, and I don’t like having such high standards pinned on me by others.
Secondly, some will also ask me to “say something in German”, which even though I don’t mind, I’d rather not do. When I’m asked to do that I always don’t know what to say and anyway the people who ask that of me just want to know what German sounds like, and since I don’t have a German accent, actual German probably sounds far from what I could, at my very best, attempt to achieve in pronunciation.
And lastly, others also think that “It must be tough” taking German because its a completely foreign languge and subject, not to mention that I only have 4 hours of German exposure a week. Obviously, its difficult, I mean, learning a new language always is. But I don’t want others to have the impression that I detest the effort that I need to put in for it(like how we study so hard for all other Arts subjects) because I like German. Yes its tough, but definitely not as tough as than Chemistry was for me(even though Chemistry is in plain, simple English).
I just wish I could study it in secret without anyone knowing.
