We are entering phase 2, according to the method. This means that we are using small picture books, little stories, to talk. For example, we start with the story of a bear who finds a shoe in a wood. He loves it and manages to put it over his left foot. Later he finds a…
I am talking! That’s already something. But, of course, the sentences are very simple, very basic and sometimes very stupid. And it’s very rare that I manage to get some kind of noise out of my mouth that my friend doesn’t have to correct. There is always something that is different from what he likes…
I have started speaking! Wow, what a change! It’s quite a different feeling. Of course, I was already speaking in some situations every day. I have to greet people and say good-bye, I have to tell taxi-drivers directions, though they often understand some French, but with Tounsi, I am sure they get it. But, there…
Very funny stuff – enjoy!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We haven’t been in Aix-en-Provence for two weeks yet when Mike wants to take some photos of our house to show them on the home page later. So he takes the elevator from the 8th floor down to ground floor and ambles across the square, half of which is a parking lot, the other…
As a German I have to link to this very famous and funny youtube video on language learning: Enjoy!
Why on earth do you still need to attend language courses once you have been in the country for more than a year? Well, I had to. Even though I had just came back from Spain, having been there for the third time for a total of over nine months, I had to go back…
Some of us are talkers; speaking comes naturally, and we almost always have something to say. Others of us, however, are much more comfortable listening, and marvel at how some people can seem to talk endlessly without ever coming up for air. Whether or not you have the gift of loquaciousness will no doubt affect…
A year earlier I had tried to get a scholarship in California. Somehow I thought it would be fun to study my languages in the United States – an opinion the committee that granted these did not share. They asked a lot of questions about my motivation and also about California. As I hadn’t studied…
I had said about the second semester: „Our teacher came into class the first day and we had a hard time understanding her. She had decided to speed up a tiny bit. Everything was a bit tougher.” Well, this time again: She came in and was even faster. We had to work a lot more…