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Got out of Navy Boot Camp, showed up here on Feb 11. Actually loving it so far. If you want some reasonably well-adjusted people, make Navy friends. Anyone else doing Persian-Farsi? Trying to get a bit of a head start before I class up on March 1st.
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DoktorLoken posted:Out of curiosity, what is the absolute minimum DLAB score for PF? Army if that matters. I have 4 army guys in my Farsi classroom, and not one of them scored over 100 on the DLAB. All of them got waived from the 90s range. Get higher than that. It's not a great metric, but the people that do better on the DLAB tend to be more comfortable here. Those army dudes I mentioned are not enjoying their stay here.
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Jul 13, 2012 04:32
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DoktorLoken posted:What percentage of DLI students play WoW? Currently play, or at some point played? The latter: all of them.
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Sep 30, 2012 06:39
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Super Camper posted:Not just wow either. League of Legends and Guild Wars 2 is just as popular here as well. Everyone in the world plays LoL. GW2 I don't hear as much about here. I'm guilty in playing both of those though.
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Oct 13, 2012 23:43
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The whole Farsi schoolhouse has something like 3 total MLIs right now, and they've been stuck in the process of trying to rewrite huge chunks of the curriculum. Which is normally always the case, sure; everything is always being checked and revised. But the nature of the revisions was that they removed a lot of the vocab, butdidn't change some of the tests to properly reflect it. So what ended up happening was a lot of students getting blindsided for a few grad classes in a row in units 2 and 3. The semester 2 curriculum is all over the fuckin place, and I guess they introduced some new books and entire new units shortly after I got through them.
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Oct 31, 2012 05:15
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Only 10 more weeks of class but my team is getting issued that poo poo too. I know our current equipment is pretty awful, but Jesus wept.
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Nov 28, 2012 02:25
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buttplug posted:Good-natured bullshitting with your friends or colleagues is one thing. Actually making GBS threads on someone and meaning it because they're Army/Navy/AF/USMC is childish beyond belief. Trufe, the Air Force is not actually shittier or lazier than the other forces on this base. But gently caress if they aren't still fun to rip on.
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Dec 7, 2012 23:34
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Can confirm that poo poo happens to army here all the time. One of my friends that LOA'd out had a choice between 11B or some parachute packer poo poo. Lucky for him his dad had some contacts and he managed to get 35F instead, but that is the far exception to the rule.
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Dec 14, 2012 05:18
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I have never seen ID checks at the patio. Never even heard of it, and one of my friends goes up there almost every night. The gently caress is the AF doing?
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Jan 11, 2013 00:13
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AchmedTheSnake posted:Yeah man, been here for about a year now and they've been checking ID's this whole time. Some unlucky prior service usually has to go up there later at night, so maybe that's why your friend never gets ID'd. Yeah I've been here for just under a year as well. Never seen it, never hear it talked about. Guess it just happens after my friends and/or I leave. Not much point to stay at the patio late since they stop selling booze at 8 or whatever.
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Jan 11, 2013 23:42
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faddypaddy posted:2+/2+/1+ Nice work bro, good job.
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Jan 31, 2013 05:10
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Farsi OPI next week, DLPT in two. poo poo is terrifying.
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Feb 13, 2013 00:26
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Super Camper posted:I heard a lot of the dlpt is about making an educated guess. Sure was that. Is it common to come out of it feeling like I failed? I went through the course with a 3.7 GPA and I came out of the listening feeling like a retard. Reading tomorrow.
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Feb 26, 2013 22:49
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Passed Farsi 2/2/1+. I'm not satisfied, but I didn't really put a whole lot of work into studying for the DLPT so I guess I get no more than I deserve.
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Feb 28, 2013 22:50
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I finally hit up Campagno's right before I left, while doing my check-out paperwork. Literally the best sandwich I ever had. The prosciutto navy special thing on dutch crunch? loving amazing.
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Mar 13, 2013 20:39
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Russian is rare, Japanese is non-existent. Arabic is getting de-emphasized in favor of Farsi, and I think there was talk of changing Farsi to cat 4. So probably Farsi, Chinese, or Korean would be my guess.
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Apr 20, 2013 05:04
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Softface posted:The talk of changing Farsi to Cat 4 was going on before I started class, and I bet it will be "going on" for another decade, unless an official statement has been issued. Probably true, but they did just lower the FLP pay on Arabic to a base of 150/month for a 2/2 I think.
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Apr 20, 2013 15:28
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Atall posted:Can you back this up? I've not heard this to be true. I can't find anything at the moment with google, but I'll double-check it at work on monday. And it may just be for the navy. I heard it a few weeks ago but didn't pay a whole lot of attention since it doesn't affect me, but I'll ask some people who would know.
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Apr 21, 2013 03:10
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I came from Farsi, but GLOSS has activities for all languages. Euronews.com is also good in my experience, because their audio/video articles have transcripts as well, so you can easily double-check what you think you heard. At least they did for Farsi. But I imagine they would for Arabic as well, which is a language option.
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Aug 21, 2013 20:37
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popejackson posted:I try to do it gently Don't.
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Aug 23, 2013 01:05
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By doing them a lot. No, there isn't a trick.
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Sep 10, 2013 12:31
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Pretty much every service has just adopted the shotgun approach wrt DLI.
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Sep 15, 2013 02:30
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Daspied posted:So I took the DLAB awhile back and scored a whopping 50- gently caress that test. Did any one study for it, or dose the normal person that goes through the school already know a language? Yeah most people that go through DLI know english pretty well.  Just messing with you. In my farsi training group there was only a handful of folks that actually knew a second language. As far as the DLAB goes, just being really familiar with grammar structure and logic was enough.
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May 11, 2014 14:19
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HellishWhiskers posted:Halfway through Farsi. I have a 3.7. I have never hated learning a language this much in my life before, and I've learned four - two of them in a fairly intense "learn this now or suffer" way. There is nothing redeemable about this process - it still doesn't even work for like half the people in the class. We're also on some kind of lovely pilot program so all that means for us is more work compared to other classes that is poorly defined and tanks everyone's grades and the MLIs don't give any shits whatsoever while we get dicked over. It's cool man once you finally get through it you'll almost definitely go to Augusta Georgia with no chance of ever leaving and you get to work in the worst professional environment of all time!
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HellishWhiskers posted:2+ 2 in Farsi. I am so happy to be finally leaving this crazy shithole that I'm sure I'm going to have nostalgic memories of in the future. Grats dude! Georgia is really not all that bad. Augusta is fairly close to a bunch of cool places.
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