So I’ve started studying the French language again. I really love listening to a good French conversation – recently attended a “local artist show” at our French cultural centre. Felt like I was eavesdropping, trying to understand the peoples’ conversations. There was nothing private – well, maybe there was, I didn’t catch it:)
Anyway, when Wayne reads, I grab my texts and make cards, just as I did in high school. Mark sent me a good link to study online so no excuses.
Pack rat that I am, my texts from school sat waiting to be read, along with a Fr/Eng translation dictionary. There’s something good about pack ratting, I guess. I’ve sorted and tossed a lot but books, can’t do it!
(When our sons were 3 and 5 years of age, one of my best friends was French Canadian. She was fluent in English but her 6 children spoke only French. Our two, only English. They understood each other and ours came home with a really humorous confusion of words. One of ours said he “saw a dog brown” – so sweet)
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It’s so hard to throw away or part with a book I find.
So glad that you’re learning French, doing something for you, for down the road, and as a stress breaker.
I am so glad you are pursuing you old interest!! It is a beautiful language but they say it is one of the hardest to learn so……….you go girl!
Glad you have some things to fill your mind up with – good thoughts.
I took two years of French in high school and again in college. When I went to Haiti to work, I had a working knowledge in my head, but getting it out of my mouth was a bit difficult. After my first term in Haiti, I studied for three months in France at Albertville in the Savoy Alps. My intention was to return to Haiti to work after my time in the States. Since I got married, I didn’t return to Haiti, but I have always loved that I learned the language as well as I did…but with lack of use, it does leave. Reading it is one thing…speaking another.
I would love to go someplace where I would have to immerse myself in the language, then I might really learn it well. I admire your desire to learn it. Perhaps when we meet, we can converse in French to the amazement of our friends.