French - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
those who either have no prior knowledge of French or those who did French at school a long time ago and who have forgotten almost everything.
In this unit, we will cover numbers 1-100, greetings, enquiries about general wellbeing, polite phrases, personal introductions and personal info. We will also learn the language required for shopping for simple picnic/breakfast food.
If learners are able to carry on for three more lessons before the school summer holidays, we will also be able to do the three lessons from the second unit which are about eating meals in restaurants and in the homes of French friends.
For those who want to carry on after that, there will be a chance to to do the remaining six lessons from the second unit booklet. These are about getting around town and local area on foot and by car and public transport. Also ordinal numbers and the French alphabet.
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Since my first of many twinning exchange trips to the Loire Valley in France and to the Ruhr Valley in Germany in my teens, I have always loved foreign languages, cultures and people (and of course the food and drink too). As part of my university studies, I spent eight months in Lorraine on the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, four months in Nordrhein-Westfalen on the border with the Netherlands and four months in the city of Lyon. Having only started learning Spanish as an adult, I have not spent extensive amounts of time in Spain but I have holidayed there as well as in Peru. Before becoming a licencee with Language for Fun, I taught for twelve years in secondary schools, including one in Zambia near the border with French-speaking Congo. I have had many adventures in many Francophone, Germanophone and Hispanophone countries where my language 'skills' have both saved the day AND got me into a bit of hot water! Let me use MY cringeworthy past experiences of making hilarious mistakes save YOU from doing the same.
When I am not teaching or learning languages (I speak some Dutch and Italian now too), I enjoy swimming, reading and walking but I am particularly passionate about the performing arts; I think you will be able to tell this when you meet me! I look forward to meeting YOU!
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