French - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
those who live locally and who want to attend most classes in person but who know they will be away for a couple of lessons and still want the opportunity to attend these online. It is for those who have either just completed the LFF Beginners 1 course or fot those who have done a bit of French before and who don’t want to start at the ABSOLUTE basics.
In the previous Beginners 1 unit we covered numbers 1-100, greetings, enquiries about general wellbeing, polite phrases, personal introductions, basic personal info and shopping for simple picnic/breakfast items.
In this Beginners 2 unit we will cover ordinal numbers 1st to 100th, letters of the alphabet and names of accents and punctuation; saying what is/isn’t in your town/local area, where it is located and how to get to it on foot and by local transport or car; eating at a restaurant and in the home of 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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