French - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
people who did a tiny bit of French before but have forgotten pretty much everything or those who have done no French at all.
From a communication point of view, the main topic is personal introductions and the sub-topic is shopping for food and drink.
From a vocabulary standpoint, you’ll be learning countries, nationalities, jobs, relationship status, family and friends, pets and possessions, breakfast, picnic and snack items and numbers 1-100.
As for grammar, you’ll learn the full present tense of the verbs to be and to have as well as bits of verbs like ‘to live’ and ‘to want’. You’ll also lots of little words that go in front of nouns like the, a, some, not any, my, your, his etc.
You’ll learn how to make a change a positive statement into a negative one and how to change a statement into a question too.
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Course Teacher
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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