Emailing Blogger now... may not be a good habit to start... I wrote these yesterday and emailed them to blogger, but they bounced back with the same title I'm using for this post (wasn't that cute of blogger?). So here they are.

German Studies Rant
I finally thought to try out this feature. I'm fairly busy at work,
but it just thrills me to think that I can drop a quick email then go
on with my day. And reading my email was what prompted this anyway.
This years German students won't have a workbook or a listening CD to
go through. Now, while I loathed listening to the mish-mash of
accents and poorly scripted dialogue, I can't argue against that
loathesome set of voices. It certainly helped me once I was over
there trying to figure out what equally confusing people were saying
to my face. Now this years students won't have that.
Also, the workbook's been moved to an online .pdf. Ok, we're saving
trees, great. We're also going to be cheating like mad. At least
when it was handwritten you had to copy the answers and might absorb
some of it. Cut, paste, and forget will be the way of it now.
I sound 50, don't I?
It just annoys me to see people who don't really want to learn a
language so much as they want to earn an easy "A." I hate seeing
people take most any class for that reason, even though I've done it
myself (GUI credits...heh.). It's that dusty academic trying to grow
inside of me. I want to honestly learn whatever I'm going to devote
3-6 hours a week to. And I'm sure some German students are going in
with that in mind, but it seems like it makes it easier for those that
aren't and more difficult for those that are.
Then again, it is just a CD and a workbook.
The ones that want to learn, will.

Race
apparently the email-to-blogger feature is even slower than I thought.
I'm going to timestamp this one for my own curiousity. I sent it to
blogger at 10:54 CST.
Race, my little emails, Race!

Well... that was worthwhile, wasn't it? I'll make a new post for today's babbling.  ¶   0 comments