Languages A2, B and Ab Initio
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Just out of interest, I wanted to ask people how many options their school offers their students in terms of Language B's. The most common Language B's being studied on this forum seem to be French, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, German and and Italian. Is anyone out there studying a very random language, or one that is not commonly spoken worldwide? If you are, why did you choose it instead of a more commonly used language? My own school offers French, Hebrew and Arabic as Language B (and a few students have taken Spanish, Italian and Finnish as a 7th subject).
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Ya hi. This is really effing late. My laptop is having issues so I had to get it fixed. Please don't hate me forever. Anywho I'll just explain to yall the format of the paper then give you some of the normal question formats that will be on the test. Mkay.Ready? Let's go! The Format Yall Ok so the paper 1 is divided into 4 different texts: A, B, C, and D. Each of these texts have their own set of questions and prompts. This paper tests two things: Your ability to respond to text based question and a written response to a text. The texts will be all in the language that you have taken and will be chosen externally. You have no say whatsoever in what they pick. Sorry. Altho…
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Here are some tips that I think will help with formatting paper 2's for language B. Sorry it's not very well edited. Paper 2 Tips Overarching tips: -Register: Who are you talking to? Should you use “tu” or “vous”? Are you being subjective or objective? -Linguistic elements: Always remember to include a variety of tenses and colloquial language. However, when considering tenses always make sure to stay consistent and match the tense that the prompt requires. -Structure: For structuring, always make sure your paragraphs are cohesive and transitions are solid. As Lower would say “Give their eyes a break”. -Principal ideas: This is very important. So important it needs to…
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Greetings humans. The following are some tips I've compiled in order to make your oral a less painful and rather care free process in which you talk with the examiner (which may or may not be your teacher) about a topic that you have chosen (or not). So here we go with the tips... The Format Alright. The oral for language B consists of 9-12 minutes of you purely talking in your chosen foreign language. Whether it be French, Spanish, German, MAndarin, etc. the list goes on and on, the format will mostly be the same. (Unless I'm delusional in which case it isn't). It is also divided into three 3-4 minute chunks. These 'chunks' if you will each have a different component to …
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Here are the links to the notes and sample works for Languages A2, B, Ab Initio we have on our Files archive. To be able to download files, you have to be a VIP member or a VIP subscriber. Please see the FAQ for information on how to become a VIP or how to buy a VIP subscription. If you want to donate and contribute files to our archive, please see this announcement or this FAQ section. Languages A2, B & Ab Initio Language A2 Language B and Ab Initio French: Notes and essays for French B and Ab Initio
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Hi, I'm a current IB French SL student in Grade 11 and I have been scoring at the lower end of 6 out of 7. I'm looking for ways to push this 6 into a 7 by following a 30 minutes daily French routine. My main weaknesses are listening and speaking. I was wondering if any of you have advice on what I can and should include in this daily routine to boost my score. Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I don´t really understand the difference between the Examination of the German B and the German Ab Initio IB examination. Is it really just about the evaluation? Where can I find an usefull oversight? I can´t imagine how a beginner is able to write e.g. a newspaper article or an interview..? Thank you very much in advance for your answers!
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Hi everyone, In your school do they give you resources or textbook to practice if you are taking Arabic B in the Diploma program? What resources do you recommend or can please share since I need to practice. I am in grade 9 now but struggling with Arabic.
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Hi guys, I've been using the Yan Burch mandarin B textbook for a while now, and I'm trying to search for an alternative textbook to revise from. Any suggestions? What textbooks are you guys all using for Mandarin B HL? Please let me know, thanks!
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I had a writing test today in spanish and i am a high level student. The word count was 450-600 words, and I wrote 320 words. I could not think of anything else to write about. The topic was identity and I wrote about values, religion, respect, how your natal birthplace changes your identity. I AM A fluent SPANISH SPEAKER at home and I was not able to reach the minimum word count for HL spanish B simply because there was nothing more to add. I did write 2 pages and according to google "2 pages has 900 words approx" but this seems odd because I counted word by word and got 320. DO I GET POINTS REMOVED? HOW MANY? Thank you for your help to whoever responds!
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Some plz help me about setting my ee rq in english b!! Already i made several rqs but i wanna pre-check by someone, before my check-in session! if u can help me, contact me by my email:[email protected] !
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Hey! My schools scheduling is all weird this year and this somehow manifested in me getting into an SL Spanish class full of only native speakers and me. Last year I got by well in Spanish, but that class was probably 50% English and there were other students at my level of fluency. This year, the class is almost entirely in Spanish. I'm only two days in, but I'm only catching maybe 50% of what is happening in the class at any given time. Is there any sure fire way to improve my listening comprehension as quickly as possible?
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hi, I am currently in dp 1 studying French ab initio for the past 4 months, I find it very hard. should I shift to hindi sl
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Hi, I am in grade 12 IBDP. I scored grade 3 in French Ab inito in my final grade 11 exams. I didn't expect that because I worked really hard. I haven't touched hindi since 4 years. I am able to read hindi but I don't know if I can write good essays to score high grades. I want to shift to hindi sl because my friends who are bad at language find it so easy. Plus I want to take medicine after 12th, for that I need a high total score. Should I take Hindi SL or continue learning french ab initio? My french tutor is not at all good , I am not comfortable with her teaching styles. PLLLEASSEE HELPPP!!
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Hello, I am taking Chinese AB initio right now, and I’ve realized that the amount of work needed for Chinese is way too much for me, I want to switch to Spanish A or B since I am fluent in Spanish, is it possible to switch at the end of DP1 since I already failed my end of year exams for Chinese, even my teacher has suggested that I switch classes so it seems like it’s necessary
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Hello, I have my Spanish SL language B oral coming up soon, and I really would like to practice it like if I were in the real exam. Does anyone have any past IB Spanish photos that I can practice on in regard to the 5 main occurring themes, or any photos that may be used to practice on?
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so uh my spanish teacher's really really crappy. I only had a semester's worth of spanish and right now I'm finishing up my second semester, she's a native speaker and pretty much expects us to talk, read and write the same way that natives do, completely ignoring the fact that most of us only took a semester's worth of spanish before taking this class. Thing is I had online school last semester, so teaching was p limited and class time was cut. Anyway she's going to be my IB spanish teacher next year, knowing her she'll probs try to teach it as HL, so I wanna get somewhat ahead and prepare for her class. Can someone give me any tips and advice on how I can prepare?
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Hello, My Japanese teacher does not teach and I would like to study on my own for the IB exam that I will have on this language in 4 months. I cannot find resources anywhere; does anyone have access to the kanji lists, any kind of recommended vocab list, and any practice / past exams that they would be willing to send me? Thanks
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I previously posted about this but I really hated Spanish ab and my teacher wasn't good. I was considering switching to English B but that also required switching from English A to Hebrew A (Hebrew is my first language and English is my second). After talking to many teachers about it I ended up going for it, it went really well too and I had a good time. Until my IB coordinator (and English A teacher) told me today that they decided I can't keep doing it due to my English being too good (we had an assessment at the start of the year and apparently I scored among the highest across the entire school). Now I'm kinda stuck though, not only did I miss about 7 or so classes i…
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How do I relate the theme of social organization in English B to Anglophone Cultures?
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I am planning to take hindi b sl as its my native language, can someone suggest some resources and experiences if possible. It would be really helpful :D
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i suck at french, i dont want to do it anymore, can i grad with an ib diploma with just 2 years of French. grade 9 and grade 10
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My English B HL IO is next week, so I was trying to prepare for the third part of the oral (questions about the theme), however I struggled with brainstorming questions for the social organizations theme, so I was wondering what are some possible questions that I might be asked about the theme of social organizations, and thank you so much
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I am deciding between French SL, Japanese Ab Initio or Italian Ab Initio for the ib. FRENCH SL? I have been doing French for around 4 years at school and have been doing pretty well, except this past year (with online lessons) I have fallen behind (especially in listening and speaking) compared to some of my classmates (the ones who are continuing french in ib) so I feel a little uncertain on continuing, but I do not really want to just 'drop' everything I learned, so I might do extra french for fun (I'm not sure if I will have time to do this though). JAPANESE AB INITIO? I have barely started Japanese, but I am interested in the languag…
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I've started my first year of IB in September and for the most part everything's been going great, my current courses are: English A HL, Spanish ab SL, Anthropology HL, Computer Science HL, Math AI SL and Visual Arts HL. I'm pretty satisfied with most of them besides Spanish, I enjoy most of my classes to some extent but Spanish is starting to get more and more insufferable to attend. I really like language acquisition and it's a topic I'm passionate about but because of the methods they use to teach it here it's just becoming more annoying and I feel like I'm not learning anything. I would normally just switch to a different course (I did that from Biology to Computer Sc…
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Is it a good idea to take English B if I want to study in a Japanese university?
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It has been about a year I have been studying IB in my school but my school doesn't have any Japanese teachers. Me and my parents have been searching for so long but we couldn't find any. Please help me I am in desperate need of a Japanese ab initio teacher.
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So according to some, having language pen-pals can count for creativity hours. How? Basically, what you have to do is find someone who is doing IB somewhere else (outside of your country of residence), and talk to them in a language that you are not fluent in. In this case, us IB students can use our language B to fit that criteria. The only requirement is that you conduct your email entirely in that foreign language, and that person will reply to you in their foreign language (one in which you can understand of course). The emails should be set about once or twice a week for about 15 minutes, depending on how free you are. However, you'll notice that if this is continue…
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Just started making Quizlets form my German class and I thought someone else could benefit from them too! I'll add more as I make more Quizlet Folder
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Hello, For those of you that have done Latin HL before can you please tell me what you did so that you could actually read it, what did you do build up vocabulary, learn grammar etc? Thanks in advance.
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Title says it all. If I learn the ab initio language I'm studying to a point beyond what is taught at the IB through self-study, can I apply this learned knowledge to the written assessment (e.g. using more complicated grammar structures, words not in the course, etc.)? Specifically for the externally assessed final IB examinations.
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We have TOK formative once every two week and these formatives have direct correlation with our predicted grades. This week, there are both midterm exams and the TOK essay deadline. TOK deadline on Thursday, Exam ends on Friday. The exams also impact our predicted grade for IB. We have argued many times and we asked for an extension (two day extension) so that we can focus on the exam first, however, they disagreed and said they gave us class time. The "class time" they gave to my class was 45min only, and when we have exams we don't have the normal class schedule, which means that there are no TOK class during the week of exams. Can you finish an essay in …
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Despite having over a year's experience with the language by this September, I'm taking Mandarin ab initio through Pamoja next year. To those who have finished it - what HSK or CEFR level would you say it got you to? I can already pass HSK 3 and would like to know if the course could bring me any further. While it's already set in stone and I know it will be good to strengthen my foundations, it's still a question of interest.
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Hi all, I have two main questions. The first is 1) if we happen to want to redo the oral, will we have the opportunity to do that? My teacher has never answered this question explicitly. The second is about idiomatic expressions. I am in Spanish B SL, and while I did notice that idiomatic expressions are listed under the mark band for the highest number of points on the rubric, my teacher didn't stress idiomatic expressions in class AT ALL. I'm not sure what experience people have here with learning idiomatic expressions, but I'm not a native speaker and we didn't cover this topic in class. I was planning to throw in one or two I learned online throughout the pr…
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Hii, I need to choose a topic for my EE. I was thinking about doing English B category 2 (culture and society) but I'm not quite sure on what specific to do. I brainstormed some ideas: doing a research focusing on Disney movies or cartoons and the impact they have on kids' views and values analyze the problems in a specific kid movie something related to traveling and moving around (and therefore the effect on the person) something about societies and the impact on individuals' identity Could someone give me some tips?? I'm struggling a lot on finding a specific research topic 😕 (In case it might help, I'm very interested in sociology …
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Hei fellas, After a long hiatus doing other stuff, I'm trying to do self-taught German to go to University in Luxembourg, and I would like to use the IB methods even though I won't take the examinations (I did the IB long ago). I bought this second hand book online Deutsch im Einsatz, but I realised that it does not include any CD or link to the audio files, which are supposed to be played or shared by the teacher in an "elevated version". I was wondering if any of you happens to have these files or knows where I could get them for free? Best,
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I have two friends that are taking Ab Initio. One has been taking Spanish for five years, and is taking Ab Initio, and one has been taking French for four years, and is taking Ab Initio. Is this right? I'm in french with one of them and its just difficult for me.
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Does anyone know where I can learn how to write the different formats for French B SL paper two? Our teacher did not teach us them and I hear that you get marks off if they aren't done properly...is this true? Whoever changed my post is just rude
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So I just got my practice grades back from my French teacher and as an exam grade I got a 5/7. I'm super disappointed and was considering taking French Phase 2 rather than Phase 4, as I think I overestimated my capabilities. Please can someone advise me on what I can do and how I should progress?
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Hey! So according to the ammendments for M21 exams, it says that Internal assessment—amended; teachers may share two extracts from the same literary text with students. Can we ask the teacher to show us 2 extracts from one of the texts? Or is it something that the teacher decides upon? Thanks!
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I got 2 marks away from a 7 in French SL B-- the lower grade boundary for a 7 is an 83. Does anyone have any experience with remarking of SL French? I don't see hope in the Paper 2 Reading Comp. because it's primarily objective, but I have more optimism for additional points in the Paper 1 written task and oral for their subjectivity. Can anyone say if it's worth requesting a remark?
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HI, im a dp1 student in IB. i'm looking for a book list for italian selftought but i could not find it. Do some one has a link for the book list?
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My current topic is To what extent does the social class we are born into affect us and our future? on The Outsiders. I was thinking it was good for the literature category, but my teacher first said it was okay, then said it was not okay, and she said that the book is not literature. I realized that she doesn't really know how to help me even and I started searching up online, but got even more confused. Is this topic good? Or should I change it?
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I'm a May 2010 candidate taking Spanish Ab Initio. I'm the only one at my school who takes this subject, and I basically I have to follow the syllabus on my own, since my teacher is not familiar with the IB-program. Consequently, I don't know if I should work harder or less. What have you done for Spanish Ab Initio so far? I have, in broad strokes, taught myself the regular verbs in every tense: present, perfect, imperfect, conditional, etc. Now I can just pump my head full of regular verbs and I'll know them in each tense. ^^ Soon I will start with common irregular verbs in each tense. Meanwhile, I learn new words and try to read, etc
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i have a problem choosing subjects that will be right for me. in my igcse I took Spanish as a second language. but for ib, I want to take French ab initio. is this the right choice or should I continue with Spanish?
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Hi fellow procrastinators! I'm currently a junior and I am having second thoughts on taking HL French. Right now, I'm losing confidence in doing well because I've been seeing some discussions that say a number of people around the world that take HL French are somewhat fluent. As someone that is quite "average" at French, I'm curious on how difficult it is exactly to pass HL French. So far my skill level has been hard to evaluate because my teacher focuses on the immersion experience, so more talking, and less grammar and vocab. The farthest that i have gotten in grammar was "Passé composé" from 9th grade. To give you a better sense of my experience in cl…
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i am doing my ee in hindi and am unable to find any sample ee's for this subject on the internet. it would be great if u could help me by sharing a few links. thankyou.
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Hey I am from India and I am doing Extended Essay in Hindi and I am stuck up with what topic should I take and how to take a topic and how to go on with it. I have taken help from my teacher but he has just given the broader topic like language, literature and culture-society but I need a more focused topic to frame my research question. So can anyone please guide me through the topics Thank you
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