WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

[MSFTisMIA]

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That's unfortunate. The main issue with insurance in the USA there's always stipulations and an end to coverage at some point. That's my main issue with it.

I'm a firm believer in universal health care for all. I know there are those who think that's crazy but I believe it makes a society better, in general.

I don't understand arguments against it either. They're illogical.

I guess if you don't like your fellow human beings then I guess it's perceived as a 'burden'...

Because it makes sense, they won't do it here. I think the system here can be streamlined enough to allow for better quality of care in a more affordable way. The issue is when you've gotten people hooked on the teat of super profits, it's hard to wean them off.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Because it makes sense, they won't do it here. I think the system here can be streamlined enough to allow for better quality of care in a more affordable way. The issue is when you've gotten people hooked on the teat of super profits, it's hard to wean them off.

I understand the companies loving the profits I don't get why the average Joe wouldn't like it.

I don't quite get the 'me first' attitude when it comes to health care in America. Not saying everyone thinks like that but I've run across it enough times.

As for streamlining, every hospital system in the world could do with that.

I guess I just grew up differently.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Not been liking my French classes. The teacher, if that's the right word, is not very good and the classes are not enjoyable.

Yeah they're cheap but you just sort wish they were taught how to teach. Not make you feel like an *****.

Hopefully I can find something better soon.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Should practice at home more too. Just been a bit hectic lately.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Not been liking my French classes. The teacher, if that's the right word, is not very good and the classes are not enjoyable.

Yeah they're cheap but you just sort wish they were taught how to teach. Not make you feel like an *****.

Hopefully I can find something better soon.

Just call it for what it is: a French cluster****.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Just call it for what it is: a French cluster****.

My wife and I have decided to no longer attend. The teacher has been pretty harsh on my wife (the teacher is a woman) and not very good at helping her learn or understanding her learning style.

Today was very bad and my wife was pretty upset. So that's it. No more.

I've felt this way for some time about the class but my wife was trying to push through. Today was was the turning point though.

We'll figure something out. Just learning at home is better far than this. We went out of our way to find and go to these classes. Didn't need a teacher like this.

 

[libra89]

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My wife and I have decided to no longer attend. The teacher has been pretty harsh on my wife (the teacher is a woman) and not very good at helping her learn or understanding her learning style.

Today was very bad and my wife was pretty upset. So that's it. No more.

I've felt this way for some time about the class but my wife was trying to push through. Today was was the turning point though.

We'll figure something out. Just learning at home is better far than this. We went out of our way to find and go to these classes. Didn't need a teacher like this.

Ugh. I'm sorry that the two of you had to deal with a terrible instructor. I hope y'all can come to a decision that works best here.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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My wife and I have decided to no longer attend. The teacher has been pretty harsh on my wife (the teacher is a woman) and not very good at helping her learn or understanding her learning style.

Today was very bad and my wife was pretty upset. So that's it. No more.

I've felt this way for some time about the class but my wife was trying to push through. Today was was the turning point though.

We'll figure something out. Just learning at home is better far than this. We went out of our way to find and go to these classes. Didn't need a teacher like this.

This somewhat reminds me of high school.

Now, to do advanced French (I studied French from age 8-16), we had to get a B or above in my high school on the regional exam (we did CXCs as our equivalent to the British O-levels and CAPE as our equivalent to the British A-Levels - the older folks here know what these are). Me and a good friend of mine has the head of the French dept as our French teacher going into the prep for the regional exam. I failed the oral test (a 45 minute conversation in French) because I got too cute in trying to translate some complicated directions from English to French. My friend failed because she was nervous as F and exams were never her thing. We got C's, so no advanced French for us. Another mutual friend who took advanced French often commented on how the French teacher would berate them whenever she felt the class' effort was poor by talking about how she wished she could have taken students like me and my nervous exam taking friend as we were "hungrier" about learning but she couldn't as she sticks to her exam standards.

Fast forward to today. My French is for **** as I stopped studying. My nervous exam taking friend taught English in France for two years and is fully bilingual and if she takes a certification test she can list it on her resume as a second language.

Moral of the story: it is better to a teacher where your students learn because of your efforts, not in spite of them. Everyone learns differently and one style either way never helps.

 

[worldspy99]

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My wife and I have decided to no longer attend. The teacher has been pretty harsh on my wife (the teacher is a woman) and not very good at helping her learn or understanding her learning style.

Today was very bad and my wife was pretty upset. So that's it. No more.

I've felt this way for some time about the class but my wife was trying to push through. Today was was the turning point though.

We'll figure something out. Just learning at home is better far than this. We went out of our way to find and go to these classes. Didn't need a teacher like this.

Have you tried Babbel?
Supposedly it's pretty good.
I had such a great Spanish teacher that I decided to keep at it long after the one class I took in the summer of 2000.
I got by in Costa Rica the last trip on quite a few Uber rides where the driver only spoke Spanish.

Good luck with your French learning adventure!

 

[worldspy99]

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Healthcare costs are convoluted in USA due to a lot of reasons. The main culprit is that the reimbursement is based on codes so the physician or hospital has every incentive to push for more codes on the bill and ZERO incentive to make the patient healthy in the least number of codes.

Of course sue happy lawyers compound the issue so unnecessary tests in the name of CYA ergo more codes... it's a vicious cycle.

As someone who works in the industry some highly trained doctors appall me.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Healthcare costs are convoluted in USA due to a lot of reasons. The main culprit is that the reimbursement is based on codes so the physician or hospital has every incentive to push for more codes on the bill and ZERO incentive to make the patient healthy in the least number of codes.

Of course sue happy lawyers compound the issue so unnecessary tests in the name of CYA ergo more codes... it's a vicious cycle.

As someone who works in the industry some highly trained doctors appall me.

Agreed.

It just makes me shake my head though. What a crazy system.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Have you tried Babbel?
Supposedly it's pretty good.
I had such a great Spanish teacher that I decided to keep at it long after the one class I took in the summer of 2000.
I got by in Costa Rica the last trip on quite a few Uber rides where the driver only spoke Spanish.

Good luck with your French learning adventure!

We're going to use various methods to lean. YouTube has loads of stuff and there's lots of other free things on the web.

Babbel is ok but there's better.

Main reason for going to the class was for interaction.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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This somewhat reminds me of high school.

Now, to do advanced French (I studied French from age 8-16), we had to get a B or above in my high school on the regional exam (we did CXCs as our equivalent to the British O-levels and CAPE as our equivalent to the British A-Levels - the older folks here know what these are). Me and a good friend of mine has the head of the French dept as our French teacher going into the prep for the regional exam. I failed the oral test (a 45 minute conversation in French) because I got too cute in trying to translate some complicated directions from English to French. My friend failed because she was nervous as F and exams were never her thing. We got C's, so no advanced French for us. Another mutual friend who took advanced French often commented on how the French teacher would berate them whenever she felt the class' effort was poor by talking about how she wished she could have taken students like me and my nervous exam taking friend as we were "hungrier" about learning but she couldn't as she sticks to her exam standards.

Fast forward to today. My French is for **** as I stopped studying. My nervous exam taking friend taught English in France for two years and is fully bilingual and if she takes a certification test she can list it on her resume as a second language.

Moral of the story: it is better to a teacher where your students learn because of your efforts, not in spite of them. Everyone learns differently and one style either way never helps.

I learned about training others when in college. My is a wife is a certified trainer and TESOL inductor. She's also a life long learner. She understands her learning style and what she needs very well.

This instructor is using very old methods and learning material. She insists only on listening and speaking. No note taking, No writing. Nothing useful to help with better understanding.

When someone babbles at you in a foreign language with no explanation it's difficult. Add in people with different levels of understanding and it becomes a bit embarrassing.

My wife it's a visual learner but she like most people, need visual, hearing and comprehension. Not being able to write is part of the problem but on top of that my wife has trouble with listening and memorising. Well, I do too, especially in another language.

This is how the classes have been.

Add to that we're not being instructed in certain things and then given written exercises to do and we can't take with us to study more.

So this last class was particularly bad. It almost felt like the teacher ganged up on us and particularly my wife. Occasionally laughing at her.

It wasn't a good day and I'm quite angry and annoyed.

Leaning should be fun not like this.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Healthcare costs are convoluted in USA due to a lot of reasons. The main culprit is that the reimbursement is based on codes so the physician or hospital has every incentive to push for more codes on the bill and ZERO incentive to make the patient healthy in the least number of codes.

Of course sue happy lawyers compound the issue so unnecessary tests in the name of CYA ergo more codes... it's a vicious cycle.

As someone who works in the industry some highly trained doctors appall me.

I'm sure you're aware of this already but most systems use codes as well.

The suing culture and increase in doctors instances have a lot to do with costs increase as well in other countries.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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I learned about training others when in college. My is a wife is a certified trainer and TESOL inductor. She's also a life long learner. She understands her learning style and what she needs very well.

This instructor is using very old methods and learning material. She insists only on listening and speaking. No note taking, No writing. Nothing useful to help with better understanding.

When someone babbles at you in a foreign language with no explanation it's difficult. Add in people with different levels of understanding and it becomes a bit embarrassing.

My wife it's a visual learning but she like most people, need visual, hearing and comprehension. Not being able to write is part of the problem but on top of that my wife has trouble with listening and memorising. Well, I do too, especially in another language.

This is how the classes have been.

Add to that we're not being instructed in certain things and then given written exercises to do and we can't take with us to study more.

So this last class was particularly bad. It almost felt like the teacher ganged up on us and particularly my wife. Occasionally laughing at her.

It wasn't a good day and I'm quite angry and annoyed.

Leaning should be fun not like this.

That was very ethnocentric of the instructor. Sorry hear you both went through it.

Hopefully you find a better alternative. I'd have written a poor review on Yelp or shat on her front porch, but that's just me trying for a laugh. Jokes aside, there is no place for that.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Still weighing a few options in my head. Each idea all makes sense.

 

[libra89]

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Still weighing a few options in my head. Each idea all makes sense.

I wish you the best of luck with choosing the right one for you.

 

[libra89]

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I realized that I have had the X for a week and some days now. I have nothing to say in terms of battery life because I haven't had a regular use case yet. Now with finals approaching, it really won't be.
It's generally working well for me so I'm pleased.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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That was very ethnocentric of the instructor. Sorry hear you both went through it.

Hopefully you find a better alternative. I'd have written a poor review on Yelp or shat on her front porch, but that's just me trying for a laugh. Jokes aside, there is no place for that.

I am considering complaining to the organisation she belongs to but I get the feeling this is their training method (even though it's been discredited since 1950, it's called audio-linguistic). I think this is a very strict form of it too.

However, this particular instructor is simply not a nice person. I'm not sure if she volunteers or not but regardless it hasn't been a good time.

We have a neighbour who's happy to help us and we'll look into other options.

There's a whole bunch of other things happening right now so I'm putting this in the 'moving on with life" category. Not worth my time.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Something a bit nicer than talking about horrible people.

This was taken a few days back. Sunrise and about -4C.