Foreign Perspectives

There’s only a couple of weeks to go to the Spanish exam and seemingly way too much stuff to be done for it.

For a change the Open University are experimenting with the use of a photograph as the stimulus for the oral exam. This means that we’ve three articles about Spanish painting and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries to read at the moment and will be handed a photo on the day itself. Then we’ve 10 minutes to prepare a 3 minute presentation on that photo using information from the texts that they’ve given us.

I suspect that it’ll work out OK as it usually seems to with the Spanish. Unlike the French department they seem to be on the level and trying to see you at your best rather than having some trick question as seemed all too common in the French course. The overall effect of that difference was that my French marks seemed to be almost random whereas the Spanish marks have been very consistent.

That also leaves the final book of the course to complete which is fair to middling essential as I think the written question will be based on it.