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, social niceties, personal introductions and shopping for simple picnic/breakfast items. You will learn a little grammar as this is necessary but you will learn a lot more about how to just communicate effectively with the very little language you have so far (choosing the most important words, using facial expressions and gestures, pointing and actually pronouncing words correctly). You will also learn how to see things from the point of view of a French person which is helpful and I’ll throw in a few fun French factoids too!
Learners who do this course will have the chance to do a second short course after Christmas in which they will learn how to get around town and local area on foot or by car and public transport and also how to deal with eating in a restaurant or in the home of new French friends.
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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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