Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 73 of 114 30 January 2015 at 8:43am | IP Logged |
Most moocs don't count for anything, except for your own satisfaction at learning something and completing the course. Think of them more as "taster" courses than full university courses. If you complete the course as an auditing student, you get a certificate. You can pay a bit of money to have your identity verified, but that's no proof that you've taken the course honestly. There are some sets of mooc courses that result in more than a certificate, if you take a series of courses. But I don't know that any employer would think any more of it than if you read a few books.
As far as what the teachers know, they have tens of thousands of students signing up for some of these courses. They know that most people who sign up don't even start the first lesson, and most people who start the lesson don't go past the first lesson. If I remember correctly, usually about 20% of the students who start the courses actually finish them.
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Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4336 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 74 of 114 31 January 2015 at 6:14am | IP Logged |
Team Français! Par Facebook j'ai trouvé un festival du film français sûr l'internet, ouvert seulement de 16 janvier à 16 fevrier. C'est absolument gratuit si on s'inscri avec FB ou Twitter, et il y a plusieurs films. Pourrais être très utile pour améliorer la compréhension parlé!
Guys, I found an online French film festival, open only from Jan 16 to Feb 16. It's free if you sign up through FB or Twitter and it has many films. It could be useful to improve your listening comprehension!
My French Film Festival
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tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 75 of 114 31 January 2015 at 1:41pm | IP Logged |
Ça a l'air intéressant. Merci de l'avoir signalé.
Je viens de remarquer que certains des films disponibles sur le site ont même des sous-titres. Génial ! :-)
Edited by tastyonions on 31 January 2015 at 2:09pm
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5168 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 76 of 114 02 February 2015 at 1:33pm | IP Logged |
Hi dear francophones!
I would like to suggest you guys a challenge. It inspired me for the Scandinavian Team Sleipnir, but it is essentially French: it's the challenge COmme d'Habitude, that is, people would base on the patterns of the lyrics from the well-know song Comme d'Habitude and describe their daily routine. Beginners could follow the lyrics more strictly while experienced learners could divague more. Qu'en pensez-vous?
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plumbem! Groupie United States Joined 3635 days ago 44 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French
| Message 77 of 114 15 February 2015 at 8:03pm | IP Logged |
Expugnator wrote:
Hi dear francophones!
I would like to suggest you guys a challenge. It inspired me for the Scandinavian Team
Sleipnir, but it is essentially French: it's the challenge COmme d'Habitude, that is,
people would base on the patterns of the lyrics from the well-know song Comme d'Habitude and
describe their daily routine. Beginners could follow the lyrics more strictly while
experienced learners could divague more. Qu'en pensez-vous? |
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Is this more or less the February challenge? Should responses be posted in personal logs or
in this thread?
At first I was like, he stole Frank's song! Then it was like, Frank... stole his song?
I can't explain how much this would distress some of my friends.
Edited by plumbem! on 15 February 2015 at 10:46pm
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4049 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 78 of 114 25 February 2015 at 8:15am | IP Logged |
Hey guys, why this low activity? :(
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Arnaud25 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 3844 days ago 129 posts - 235 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 79 of 114 25 February 2015 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
tristano wrote:
Hey guys, why this low activity? :( |
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Bah comme d'hab, ils dorment :)
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PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5478 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1
| Message 80 of 114 26 February 2015 at 4:43am | IP Logged |
a part moi, nous sommes trop occupes en train d'etudier... pour moi ces jours-la c'est
une crise de motivation. il parait que je prefere faire des choses stupides et banales
encore, meme des choses nocives pour la sante comme manger beaucoup de sucre en
regardant
la machine qui produit de la propagande, autrement dit, la tele. Et voila j'ai pense
que
j'ai battu le diable de procratination hein... je me suis trompe, ca c'est sur. Mais
au
moins ce n'est pas comme dans le passe quand je me suis arrete d'etudier entierement.
Ces
jours-la je peux faire au moins un peu :)
Comme vous savez, cette histoire c'est seulement une histoire avec un personnage, et
ca
c'est moi... n'est-ce pas?
Edit:
Une des chose que j'aime bien faire pour passer un peu de temps c'est de lire les
articles sur la sante sur ce site web canadien (ils ont d'autres articles sur des
autres sujets aussi):
http://etat-du-monde-etat-d-etre.net
Edited by PeterMollenburg on 26 February 2015 at 4:48am
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