Bonjour, mes amis!
Alors, je suis arrivée in the most romantic city in the world, Paris, even if it is only for a few days of business! You can’t imagine how good it feels to land on foreign soil and actually understand the best part of what is being said – I’m even enjoying looking at all the advertising hoardings and figuring out the messages on them.
I remember our school trip ... Read the rest of Learning and Using French in France
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Hey, for those of you who’ve been following my progress in learning French for the past few weeks, you may be interested to know that I reckon I’ve nearly cracked it! With one week to go before take-off to Paris, I feel as though I can just about hold my own in a variety of situations which should see me through my 4 day French business trip. Of course, I’m ... Read the rest of Learning French - Preparing for Paris!
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Thought I’d come clean and share one of the downsides to my French learning experiences with you, just so you’re not under the illusion that it’s all plain sailing. I suffered a bit of a setback in the fourth evening class which made me realize that I need to be a bit more realistic when setting my learning targets!
The tutor asked for volunteers to do a role-play; she would be ... Read the rest of Embarrassing French Lesson
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So, the evening classes have finally begun, and I’ve realized the whole point of my efforts to learn French – in other words, to communicate with other people! I was so nervous before I entered the room for the first time because I could hear a couple of people chatting away in fluent French – I thought we were all supposed to be beginners here! It turned out to be ... Read the rest of My First Live French Lesson
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Wow! I never thought I’d say this, but I’ve made great progress in just a few days of starting on my quest to learn French fast. After getting a bit bored of just looking at the French words and matching them to pictures in online quizzes, I discovered a site called ‘About.com’ which has a whole load of free French language resources.
First on my learning list was a few ... Read the rest of I'm Learning French Quickly!
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Well, this is it – I’m finally taking the plunge and putting aside my fear of foreign languages to have a go at French. Why? It’s not really something that’s been top of the agenda before, but for my new Sales job with a major cosmetics company, I need to be able to use a bit of the lingo. To ... Read the rest of First French Lessons
