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| From E-Learning V |
From E-Learning V
Making a tentative though necessary start.
When taking an online course such as this my interest is two-fold: the content and how the course is constructed and delivered.
Regarding the content I last learnt French formally for O'Levels and got a 'C'.
There are multiple holes in my knowledge, use and understanding of the language. Wanting to acquire rather than learn the language I got myself onto a school exchange scheme, spent three weeks in Rochefort near La Rochelle - and returned for five weeks that same summer ending up hitching through France to Andora and back. My new friend was Algerian. In my gap year I worked in a French 4 Star Hotel for five months where many of the staff I dealt with were from North Africa and the south of France. I gained a Marseillais accent and vocab. Finally I worked in French TV in Paris: my immediate work colleagues were a Geordie, a Russia, a Moroccan and an Israelie. By now I passed as Belgian - so long as I said very little. The third phase has come since: gambling away in French thinking I can be understood when that is far from the situation as my grammar is so poor. Finally, a yesr using Rossetta Stone has me slowing down and the few very correct phrases I use have me sounding like a government official from Paris. This sounds like fluency: it is not. My written French wouldn't get me through primary school, which explains why I've enroled on L120.
More grammar to absorb, understand, know then apply ... and be around people who are told to fix rather than tolerate my mistakes.
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| From E-Learning V |
I need to figure out how to generate accents otherwise that will be another lesson that passes me by.
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| From E-Learning V |