Main purpose of my visit, next to spend some time with my
friend GI, is learning French. I was eager to write about the experience right
on first day. I have to admit I was not able to do it on Monday. I had very
mixed feelings after day one. It was not better on Tuesday. Wednesday made me
feel ‘what am I doing here?’. And today? I am ready to withstand till the end.
It is interesting that my willingness to finish the course rises
with sunny day and is quite low on cloudy days. It is almost as cold as in
Moscow. This morning -18oC and SUNNY!!!
Our teacher Thomas is French.
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| Thomas |
This makes the learning bit difficult. I am starting to
understand why people do not like to speak/learn French. I speak five languages
but French (will be the sixth one if everything goes well) taught by a French
man is disaster. All other teachers, and I experienced a lot of various
systems, were strict with grammar and vocabulary and had understanding for
accent. British and Americans are especially generous in that field. French? No
way! I agree pronunciation is very important part of every language, but nobody
shall exaggerate.
Being Czech native speaker, I am sure Czech language would
be very successful in the contest ‘complexity of Czech pronunciation’. Here is
best of Czech pronunciation introduced by an Englishman:
And this is example of French students speaking Czech:
So Mr. Teacher, what would you say now?
Todays French word
(for context this time with Czech translation):
strč prst skrz krk
Place your finger through the neck
placez votre
doigt à travers le cou
Don't give up, don't give up, dear czech snowcat. By the way, Cantonese language teachers also don't seem to be very generous which is the reason (and good excuse) why I did not even have a first attempt to learn the language ;)
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