French - Improver
This course is ideal for:
a) those who have done the previous 8 Beginner and Improver units with Language for Fun;
b)those who have got almost to the end of the Duolingo course and are frustrated that it hasn’t taken them as far with their French as they would like and now want a HUMAN TEACHER to help them progress further;
c) those who did well at French GCSE/O Level/AS Level/A Level a number of years ago, have forgotten a fair amount (but not everything) and want to pick it up again from a not-too-basic starting point, really getting to grips with how the language works.
In this topic, as well as talking about present, near definite future and not so near and not so definite future events (which learners should find straightforward enough by now), we continue practising the difference between the perfect and imperfect tenses (which learners don’t yet find quite so straightforward). Towards the back end of the unit (although we most certainly will not get to this until Spring 2026), we will combine previously learnt tenses to form four new tenses: the conditional, the future perfect, the pluperfect and the conditional perfect! These tenses will open up conversational opportunities even more.
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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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