French - Improver
This course is ideal for:
a) those who have done the LFF Beginner 1 ,2 and 3 units as well as the Beginners/Improvers Transition units 1 & 2 recently
b)those who have done over a year on Duolingo or another online course but who now want a HUMAN TEACHER who can EXPLAIN language to them
c) those who did French at school a long time ago and want to go back and start again but in more detail, really getting to grips with how the language works. The topic is ‘My Week – the Fun and the Not So Fun’ and, having already done the present tense in detail and glimpsed at the first past tense, we will getting to grips with this properly so that learners can say as much as they want, not repeat set phrases parrot-fashion, about not only this week but also this morning/afternoon/evening/month/year…
This course is also ideal for those who want the option of joining in with lessons in person most weeks and from a distance online on a couple of occasions if necessary.
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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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