French - Improver
This course is ideal for:
a) those who have done the Beginners and Improvers units with Language for Fun;
b)those who have done over twos 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 (and coped well) 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.
Following on from our previous topic of ‘That was Then and This is Now… and This is the Way it Will Be!’ we will be continuing outr trip down memory lane to further practise the difference between the present perfect and imperfect tenses and to make our telling of past events more detailed. Once this has been practised enough, we will use our knowledge of the four tenses we have so far learned to combine these to easily make four more tenses: the conditional, (would d0), the past perfect (had done), the future perfect (will have done) and the conditional perfect (would have done). However, this is not likely to happen before 2026! Learners will learn more vocabulary and useful set phrases/expressions and the conversations will be quite free and fun now as they can say so much more than before.
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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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