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LANGUAGE LEARNING

I: Liz, what language have you learnt?

L: Um, I've just finished doing a course in Russian.
I: Russian! That sounds really exciting. Where did you learn it?
L: That was, er, that was a course of evening classes at a local college here.
I: And how many evenings did you go? L: Um. Just one evening a week,
we went for two hours every week, which wasn't really enough.
I: You'd need to go more often lo make it worthwhile?
L: I think so, if you were going to learn the language properly, yes.
I: Mm. How did they teach it?
L: Um. It was quite a traditional method really. We did a lot of grammar
exercises, um, obviously the grammar's quite different, quite important in
Russian. Um. That was OK. I didn't mind that. I actually quite like
grammar. I: Any other techniques?
L: Um. Yeah, there was, er, a video course.
I: What did that involve?
L: That was, it went with the book we were using and, er, we used to watch a one hour video each week of people talking Russian, real Russians, um so that was good, that was an interesting way to learn. I: You really enjoyed that?
L: Yeah. 1 think it was a more valid way to learn, really.
I: Was there a part of the course then that wasn't very satisfactory?
L: Yeah, we did a lot of translation in class, really again it was the traditional approach, um, reading around the class, taking turns to translate things around the class, which, basically was too difficult, um, for our level, we couldn't do it at all really.
I: Mm. So if, um, you know, if someone else was going to study at an evening class would you recommend it as a way of learning? L: I think it depends on the course, um, and the teacher obviously. I don't think I'll be going back to that particular college next year.


A. Questions.
1. What language has Liz learnt? 2. Where did she learn it? 3. How often did she have Russian classes? 4. How did they teach Russian?