Changing Ab Initio Language after already learning one

[Chicken_Jose]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is recommended if i change my ab initio subject from mandarin to french, but we have learnt a fair bit and teachers say it might be hard for me to catch up? Do you think it would be good say both subject have cover 1/3 of the syllabuss

[cricketcrazynerd]

i personally feel you should just stick with Chinese now

It's really hard catching up, esp. on Language B

Some of my friends do Chinese and they are finding it much easier than French

But, if you are have legit difficulties, you should consider changing it

I recommend talking to your IB coordinator or teachers for advice

[Chicken_Jose]

Yeah, thats what i was thinking, but Chinese is to hard because I can't memorize the characters. I know friends in chemistry and they find it much easy.

Its just that im spending too much time on them and having to leave out some time from studying HL Chemistry and HL ENGLISH

Thanks for reply

[TykeDragon]

It's fair enough that you can't memorise Chinese characters - languages like Japanese and Chinese do take you out of that comfort zone and provide something extra to learn. Did you learn any French or anything at GCSE? However I hear that French Ab Initio is fairly easy. You could change - you just need to be extra sure to catch up the notes. Join the class ASAP if you are going to, and ask for the notes to copy up - borrow someone's book or something, and copy it that night and get it back to them. Then maybe ask the teacher if they'll do a couple of after school sessions a week to help catch you up. You probably could catch up what you've missed now, but only if you work hard - people did it in my school a bit. As long as you're willing to put in the catch up work, French Ab Initio will probably work out as easier for you in the long run - just act quick.