374: What I Have Learned in French Class, So Far - part sept (7)

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Shannon Ables

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Bonjour à tous !

Just last week, I concluded FR 105 with Washington DC's Alliance de Français, a Zoom/online course that met twice a week, two hours each time since just after Thanksgiving.

You may remember that Part Six of this series was shared during TSLL's Annual French Week which shared what I had learned through FR 104 and 103, and now it is time to share some progress!

Thankfully, there has been progress and while I chose to take Everyday Situational French this fall due to my travel schedule, this once-a-week meeting provided me the opportunity to keep the French language on the tip of my tongue before I could dive back in to the regular course work.

Some of what I share will be from the Situational French course, but most of it was learned during FR 105.

I am tickled to share that while my French definitely has a looooooong way to go, the ease I am feeling constructing basic sentences with a few different tenses delights me to no end. Last year at this time I was nervous and hesitant to attempt to say anything slightly different than what I said the week before when the professor would greet us, but now I at least can speak without hesitation and share what I did over the weekend.

With that said, with growth comes growing pains, and I had a few moments throughout the past 10 weeks of frustration when it just wasn't making sense; however, I have a new-to-me professor, she being French and also a long-time educator, I was and am so grateful for her expertise and professionalism. She pushed, but then lightened up and stuck with us when she could tell we were struggling. In those moments, she encouraged us to keep trying and then doubled down on reviewing that particular difficult piece of the language to ensure the concept was acquired. As a fellow educator, what I observed was a keen awareness demonstrating her skill of both the language and how to teach it based on where the learner was and not holding true to the lesson plan if the class wasn't ready to move forward. I am eager to step back into her class when courses resume later this month. I have made it to FR 201! (We now are enjoying a two week vacances.)

Tune in to discover 13 things I have learned so far in French class.

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1:18.9	And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a
1:25.1	cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Good a v. d'naveu dance. Goode view in the simple Sophistice. The episode 3rd 6thousand I welcome you to today's episode of the Simple Sophisticate Podcast episode 374 in
1:58.8	in French because or Puskah today's episode is all about what I've learned so far in French class part
2:06.0	set so part seven we began this series way back in 2016 and last year, yeah, yeah, yeah, last year, I began to share what I was
2:19.7	learning while I was taking classes with Washington, D.C.'s Alliance
2:24.8	de Francis. And these are online classes, but they are intense in the
2:29.8	sense of two hours for two different classes each week for 10 weeks.
2:35.0	And just this last week I wrapped up French 105 and I'm moving on to the level, the 200 level.
2:42.0	Wahoo, wahoo!
2:43.5	What thrills me to no end
2:46.2	is that simple welcome is something I could not have done
2:49.9	just off the cuff, even a year ago. It sounds so simple to those of you who know the French
2:55.8	language so bear with me for a moment but I'm going to celebrate the small things
2:59.1	because at least I feel more at ease than I did just 17 months ago.
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