Monday, October 09, 2006
First day of class
Had my first day of French class today. Today we did food and traditional manners. In addition to a bunch of French vocabulary, I learned that it's okay to eat asparagus with your fingers; that the man does not traditionally hold the door for the woman if it is a public building like a restaurant, but rather the man enters first (safer that way); and that there are a lot of people with accents much worse than mine, so I can relax about that.
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Me man.
Man enter room first.
Man eat food with fingers.
Woman watch man eat.
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Hmm. It occurs to me that this actually sounds like a comparatively non-sucky class, if you're at least learning important things about asparagus and not just rote-memorizing grammar.
jopoisson
Ha ha jdm.
The class is quite good. The teacher is very animated, indeed goofy. We talked about endangered languages today because there was an example in the exercises that was "Cette langue ne se parle plus" ("This language is not spoken anymore"). In that way, it's kind of like my Sanskrit class in college (of course it wasn't a conversational Sanskrit course, but we did have rambling conversations in English).
Otoh, I can tell already, it's not giving me enough practice drilling certain constructions. We learn grammar but we don't have to use it when we speak. That's a disconnect. I am planning on spending sometime in their multimedia lab to see if they have any cd-roms for that kind of practice.
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