Well, I've been taking a correspondence course in typing and shorthand.

我参加了一项有关打字和速记的函授课程。

One type of independent learning is the correspondence course.

函授是独立学习的一种。

In a correspondence course, a school sends you textbooks, study guides, and materials such as video and audio discs.

在函授课中，学校会寄给你教科书，学习指南和诸如录像和磁带的资料。

By the time he entered high school, he had already sought out a correspondence course and begun to study cartooning.

到他进入高中时，他已经找到了函授课程，并开始学习漫画。

A " correspondence course" is when you don't go anywhere to a class.

“函授课程”是指你什么地方都不去上课。

Correspondence courses have pretty much disappeared, but they used to be very popular.

函授课程几乎消失了，但它们曾经很受欢迎。

Most respected philosopher, Your generous correspondence course in philosophy is greatly appreciated by us here.

最受尊敬的哲学家， 我们在这里非常感谢您慷慨的哲学函授课程。

Now, most people who want to take something like a correspondence course will take an Internet course.

现在，大多数想要参加类似函授课程的人都会参加网络课程。

The first structured distance learning or correspondence courses were probably the shorthand courses offered by the Pitman organization at the end of the 19th century.

最早的远程学习可能是皮特曼组织于十九世纪末开设的速记课程。

I took a correspondence course in electronics when I was in high school, and they were still popular up until fairly recently.

我在高中时参加了电子学函授课程，直到最近它们仍然很受欢迎。

I found the easiest way was to take a correspondence course, where they sent me the book and they sent me the test.

我发现最简单的方法是参加函授课程，他们把书寄给我， 然后寄给我测试。

Distance learning, is a special type of open learning where tutors and learners are far away from each other. This was sometimes called " home-study" or " correspondence courses."

远程学习是一种特殊的开放式学习，在这种学习形式下，指导教师和学习者相隔遥远。有时也称为“函授教育”或者“函授课程”。

Ben and Jerry took a correspondence course in learning how to make ice cream, which is a somewhat unusual topic for a class.

本和杰瑞参加了学习如何制作冰淇淋的函授课程，这对课堂来说是一个有点不寻常的话题。

This isn't really a new idea, in the sense that colleges and universities and schools sometimes offered classes before the Internet using what we would call " correspondence courses."

这并不是一个真正的新想法，因为大学和学校有时会使用我们称之为“函授课程” 的方式在互联网之前提供课程。

So, if you're ever in California and you live here and you want to go to traffic school but you don't want to spend eight hours, you can take a correspondence course.

所以，如果你曾经在加利福尼亚并且你住在这里并且你想去交通学校但是你不想花八个小时， 你可以参加函授课程。

Let her mother think it was a love letter. Although it was embarrassing enough, it would be even worse if her mother found out that she was doing a correspondence course with a complete stranger, a philosopher who was playing hide-and-seek with her.

让她妈妈以为是一封情书。虽然已经够丢脸的了，但要是让妈妈知道她在跟一个完全陌生的哲学家在跟她玩捉迷藏上函授课，那就更糟了。