Resouces for students of the French Language
Veux-tu parler la langue française ?
I flunked 'O' level French in 1964; my friends Bill and Julia moved to France; I had some French language books and audio tapes; and my accountancy studies had finished. What was a girl to do?
An Open University flyer plopped out of the colour supplement and I was off!
During 2001 I acquired a wealth of information on websites, books, films etc - all to help me with my studies. In addition to the info you'll find in my site, here are my pearls, for what they are worth!
- Tutor groups: evening tutorials and Saturday schools: go to them!
- Networking: exchange e-mail addresses with your fellow victims - it's so much easier to keep in touch with each other that way.
- Study groups: get together regularly and study together. Our group meets every Sunday afternoon for 2 hours - it's invaluable. You can work through stuff together, commiserate, support each other and bitch about the tutor! (Only kidding prof!)
- Summer schools: There's no summer school for L120 or for the new L310, but try to get to one (see my Summer Schools page)
- Accents: for a quick guide on how to get accents out of your English keyboard, print out my Accents table. You hold Alt down and then the number keys on the numeric keypad to get the accents. Print it out and stick it when you can see it!
- Tape recorder/player: you'll need one for the the TMAs. I have a Sony hand-held cassette recorder/player Walkman which is great - no need for ear-phones, although you can use them if you like, so you can carry it around with you while doing the dusting (you do dust, don't do?) and while you're lazying in the bath with a G &T. It has a built-in microphone for recording those dreaded TMAs and you can hook it up to an external mic, speakers and a power supply (you have to buy that separately). Think about getting one with a counter.
