<p>My story for the French essay was so crappy (and the silliest I've ever written, too). I guess I should have used the passe simple but I was too lazy and used the passe compose instead. Was that alright?</p>
<p>Alright? I think they would have given you a professorship if you had correctly used the passe simple. My teachers in HS couldn't write in passe simple. I used passe compose and imparfait, and since they asked us to write in those tenses (plus plus-que-parfait) if we knew them, I think it's just fine. Besides, passe simple is for litterature and I know what we wrote surely wasn't litterature.</p>
<p>LOL. I could barely remember the irregular (or some of the regular) verb endings for the passe simple so I didn't feel like taking the risk. Relief. Yeah, what I wrote wouldn't even pass off as a decent short story for a kiddie magazine. lol, I only used the plus-que-parfait tense once. I hope we all did well!</p>
<p>Thanks, dreamsicle and ForeverZero, for the link to the guide. Looks good!</p>
<p>Do you think there's any problem if I take the placement test now, after the dates I was programmed (june 12-30) ?</p>
<p>you should probably e-mail before you do, I think. Just to let them know.</p>
<p>Haha, that Spanish test online was really easy. Anyone else think so?</p>
<p>irish_miguel> yeah, it was. even the por/para questions that usually throw me weren't that bad</p>
<p>let's hope the oral part is nice and simple, too :)</p>
<p>The German test was a b*tch. The reading comprehension was ridiculous.</p>
<p>Too much grammar in the French test! I thought it'd be a reading comprehension, not a freakin' grammar test. </p>
<p>Haha, I got an e-mail from one of the professors in the language department cos in the AS forms I said that I was interested in taking up Latin. Well, they said something along the lines of "we're always excited to have freshmen with a background in Latin" and provided a couple of long paragraphs from the test for me to translate!!!!!! THEN they sent me another e-mail saying "we're so excited to hear that you want to start French" when I've been studying the language for about 7 years. -_-</p>
<p>Ugh, I know, there was way too much about verb tenses. And I even understood the stories quite well so reading comprehension questions would have been a breeze. But I bet this is easier to grade and there are less complaints about the questions. Let's hope the oral is easier. At least we wouldn't have to worry about passe simple!</p>
<p>argh, I forgot about the oral. I haven't spoken in French since May. The most I'll be able to say is 'bonjour' and 'oui, j'aime bien ca'.</p>