9. You have to have a computer and online to do it. I do (DUH) but I mean, REALLY. Not everybody does. The hypercards take about 45 minutes EACH to do it right, and the library only gives you a half hour if I'm not mistaken.
8.Loading Time BWAH-HA HA! I have Cox Internet now, but I didn't for the midterm. Can you say "tap-tap-tap" and "snore-snore-snore"?
7. AOL. Yep: I used to have AOL. For those you you who don't or never did, let me enlighten you: it LOVES to kick you off whenever you REALLY don't want it too. Ever done almost all of the hypercards and have THAT happen? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
6. The monotony. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
5. The accents. Unless you know the ALT codes, you get to use the lovely little clicky bar. Hands on the keyboard, hands on the mouse. Did I mention that French has a lot of accents?
4. The non-specifiction questions. On the quizzes you can find some lovely little questions like "cashier" and "TV director" which don't specify the gender. There are two questions and two answers: one is masculine, and one is feminine. But which is which? Okay maybe one first then the other second. Good theory, right? Wrong. The order of the questions changes every time.
3. Gender. Nope, nada, doesn't matter on the hypercards, the one torture device that drives those annoying French words and phrases into our minds for all eternity doesn't ask the gender (unless it's something like "passer un film"). You would think it would be a relief, and it is not having to type up the gender, but do you know what? WE SOUND LIKE IDOTS AND GET POINTS OFF IF WE SCREW IT UP ELSEWHERE!!!!!
2. Those tiny little mistakes. At the end of every quia session you get told what you got wrong and what the real answer is. Okay, that's all well and good, but sometimes the answers that were put in as the "right" answers are WRONG!!! Some teaching tool! HRUMPH!
1. The "enter" button. The most annoying thing in this whole deal. If you press enter at any time in the quiz, it's OVER! For GOOD !
Tells you all the answers you didn't do but meant to. And unlike the button you're SUPPOSED to press when the session is up, pressing the enter button doesn't say "hey, buddy, you're not done. Wanna go back?" if you press it prematurely.
