I'm a bit of a fan of further education. I did two years of French evening classes in London, and loved them - loved the classes, the homework, and the fact they brought my French back to, and beyond, where it was when I left Uni hundreds of years ago.
It's fun to learn something, though you do have to be quite determined - when the night of the class comes around you never really want to go. But it's always good when you get there - in my experience, anyway. And I'm a swot, so always did my homework, and was shocked when other people didn't! But I think doing work outside of the class is important if you actually want to learn.
Last year I did an evening class in bike maintenance and that was great too - completely different to sitting doing role play. It was a real hands-on course, and the people were a laugh, so I looked forward to that each week.
I did try learning Chinese from tapes last year, but I'm not good at making myself do it without the structure of a class. So I'm looking for one - and Loomis and I are also talking about doing Italian.
Anyway, the upshot of all that ramble is that yes, I think you should do the classes - night school rocks. |
