<p>For all of the veterans Norcal and Fudgemaster, etc...</p>
<p>how is Spanish 123, is it time consuming, hard, easy, wat?</p>
<p>I took Spanish since 7th grade in middle school all the way till 12th grade (AP Spanish, did horrible on the test though)</p>
<p>What should I expect, is it a lot of memorization with words or heavy on grammer?</p>
<p>Spanish 123 has a good bit of both; you have to know quite a few tenses, but it's more memorization of words. If you put the time in you can do very well. If you hardly put anytime in you will get a B- probably. If you took AP but did poorly it's probably a good place for you. You should take the Spanish "LPS," I think (placement exam), to find where you fit in, but I would bet you'll go in 123 based on where you stand.</p>
<p>It's as easy as 1,2,3...okay, bad joke</p>
<p>No idea on Spanish 123. Dunno if you can take Spanish 209 but it's the easiest class I've taken at Cornell. Bar none.</p>
<p>It all depends on your placement exam score. They're firm about placing you based on the score so they don't have native speakers who grew up in Ecuador in 123 getting a free A+ for showing up and merely existing. 123 Comes right before 209. I'm taking 209 this coming semester, and it sounds easier than 123 because the curriculum moves more into reading than memorizing so much ****, from what I hear.</p>
<p>Any words on Spanish 209 Norcal?</p>
<p>i just started spanish my senior year. is there an introductory course or like...just above intro spanish course available?</p>
<p>i am taking the placement test next wednesday, but i was told to enroll in this class b/c most likely I will end up in this class.</p>
<p>does 123 have a lot of essay writing and speaking stuff</p>
<p>i really don't mind tenses and memorizing words, that is my speciality</p>
<p>thanks for asking bball, I'm interested to hear what people have to say . . .I'm taking it next semester. </p>
<p>I took 6 years of Spanish in high school, and placed just below 209. . .I added spanish as a 5th class next semester, assuming I wouldn't have too much trouble with it. </p>
<p>Tenses and memorization really doesn't sound that bad at all.</p>
<p>yeah i like that stuff a lot, its really stuff i dont mind to do, </p>
<p>I cannot stand essay writing and oral and audio stuff...it really is annoying</p>
<p>We will probably have to do some speaking though .. . .Essay writing is fun, speaking can get tricky.</p>
<p>so is it a good idea to purposely do bad on the placement test? to get an A + in spanish</p>
<p>Sparticus: I found the class to be almost an exact repeat of my Spanish 4 HS class. I came into the class already pretty familiar with the different tenses, how to conjugate, etc. so outside of a few vocab words, I didn't really learn anything new in Spanish 209.</p>
<p>I found the class itself to be very easy. The only HW we had between lectures were worksheets which took around 5 min to complete. I maybe spent up to 30 minutes per week reviewing the material. So, in all, that's only 40 minutes per week spent on the class. Tests took 1-2 hours to study for and the final was multiple choice. The one thing they do grade harshly are the in-class essays. My professor took off 1 pt. for every grammatical mistake. So some students in the class received rather unfortunate essay scores.</p>
<p>I will qualify my comments by saying that I'm pretty good at Spanish and a good portion of the class did struggle. But I fail to understand how people can spend Spanish 2, 3, 4, 5 in HS learning the same tenses over and over and still not have them down by the time they get to college.</p>
<p>Does anyone have a list of all the languages they teach @ Cornell? I really want to learn Hindi.</p>
<p>stonecold: in CAS you need to be at a 200 level to fulfill the language requirement, so if you do really poorly on the test you could end up having to take a lot of classes, though i suppose you could test up after your first semester class. But then what's the point of doing poorly on the placement test in the first place?</p>
<p>wrxstiav: <a href="http://noyeslodge.cornell.edu/learning/languages%5B/url%5D">http://noyeslodge.cornell.edu/learning/languages</a> :D looks like you're in luck. I'd like to point out where this is one of those "do you know how to use google" situations. The website that led me to that page was the #1 google result for "languages taught at cornell."</p>
<p>I've had enough of languages... know a couple, suck at all. Is it necessary to take languages?</p>
<p>to get a bunch of easy As to boost GPAs by taking elementary spanish classes... im not necearily intending on doing it, im just wondering if some people do.</p>
<p>I'm sure it's possible, but i'd be bored to tears. I dislike how people are more concerned with GPA than knowledge.</p>
<p>yeah, I think I'd probably either get bored, or be over confident and getting about the same grade I would have gotten if I just took the harder class to begin with.</p>
<p>For the 123 language courses, the most important aspect to maintaining a high grade is to go to class. I don't know if this applies to Spanish 123, but in the corresponding French class, your grade drops by half a letter grade for every 4 classes you miss. Since class meets 4 times a week, make sure not to pick the 8AM class because, at least for me, it is really easy to oversleep.</p>
<p>yeah i had 8am spanish 123 and that's definitely what killed me. I had mid to high Bs, great participation, and always handed in correct HW. however I only went to class like 3/4 times per week.</p>