Can't help with the assignment but here'sa free bump

also
>go to gen.lib.rus.ec
>search sandberg german for reading
>search sandberg french for reading
>do one chapter of each a day

Beats the hell out of learning how the teacher wants you to learn when 99% of the time it won't click with you

Translation: where can I find people to do my homework

>I don't have time to study but I have time to post on 4chan

get lost

>>7686803

I can't just suddenly 'know' a language. I am doing what I'm supposed to do, but it is taking an inordinate amount of time. At the end of the day, I am a human being.

I figured that the way I have been tackling the problem was the best way to leverage the small amount of French and even smaller amount of German I possess - better I thought than simply ignoring the body of work in those languages until some theoretical point in the future when I can 'read' French and German.

What would you do? Ignore it because you can't read those languages, or give it a shot?

Like I said, I want somebody to look over my own translations because I can't be sure of them - and have them professionally translated (which I realise will cost) if time runs out.

>>7686798

Thank you very much, I will have a look - the class book is Coles and Dodd's Reading German, and it is very poorly structured (both in terms of progression and presentation).

I will check Sandberg out, thank you.

>>7686819

Learning a language is a fuck ton of work. You do grammar and vocab until you can start reading baby pieces. You do more grammar and more vocab and move up to intermediate pieces. You can work on children's books while you're working your way up etc.

Languages take a lot of time. If you don't have time to learn them, then sorry, you don't have time to learn them.

If you're in a class and you don't have time for it, stop wasting your time and get out of it.

>>7686831

Well, tell my college that. Expected to have Latin and German under my belt in a year, and Attic Greek and French next year.

It's tough when a tutor looks at you quizzically , only the second term in, because you can't read such and such article.

You don't have to tell me how much time is required.

And like I say - this is a requirement. I can't duck class. German isn't an optional extra I took for the hell of it.

>>7686840

Dude, what the fuck are you doing? If you don't have time, you don't have time!

If you have a requirement you can't achieve, you can't do the degree!

You're going to have to re-plan and adjust. Talk to your advisors and let them know the language thing is slowing you down. They will work with you to come up with a plan. You may have to go back to undergrad level courses, no big deal.

There's no magical solution that's going to get you out of this rock-and-hard-place.

Jesus, use your (level) head.

>>7686850

I appreciate the advice - I really do. I only know a couple of people who are linguistically, not in the same boat, and they are students from the continent. The rest of we British students are expected to keep the fuck up.

The course is designed to get you up to pace linguistically in two years - we were told to think of it as essentially an intensive language course, with some history attached.

Unfortunately, there is an imbalance - I get 4 hours of Latin contact time a week, with home work for each class, but just one 2 hour slot for German, so the modern language suffers. Of course, reading your primary sources in the original is much more important.

It just bums me out - it seems like scholars arriving for their undergrad degrees even 20 years ago were better equipped linguistically, and those same people with academic posts now, seem to be aware that the last couple of generations are much, much worse off linguistically, but it is still expected that you 'catch up', because at the end of the day, you can't do the job without that component.

I have also been told that this is a problem that in many ways is confined to History. If you study literature, you usually only have to engage with primary and secondary texts in one language, and with the sciences, the vast majority of work is done in English. Only in history do you still see this diversity, one that most native English speakers are ill prepared for.

I have spoken to my advisors about this many times, and whilst they empathize, there isn't a lot you can do.

Going back to undegrad level wouldn't make any sense - it isn't the history I can't do, it's the languages. I wouldn't have made it on to the course at the institution I have if that were the case.

I honestly didn't think asking if anyone had any translation services they'd recommend for 4 articles was that outrageous a request.

>>7686879

Or rather, it's the modern language component dragging me down. I audited a beginner's Latin class during my final year of undergrad, so I am in the top set for it now.