Learn French - the easy and fun way!
There is only one way to learn a new language and that is to speak it! There are so many people I know who attend French classes given by people who are either not qualified to give lessons -- and I am not talking about formal teaching qualifications, but meaning that they have no idea how to teach a language. These classes are often the choice of people who wish to learn the language simply because they are free or very cheap. No one wants to go spend a few hundred Euros on language classes when you can go spend an afternoon amongst other Anglophones and have fun and chat English and learn a few now words and bits of grammar.
A second group of French teachers in this region (and probably all over France) are the English-speaking people who feel they know enough French to be able to teach others and who see French lessons as an easy and sociable way to earn a few Euros. Again, it is cheap and easy and non-demanding -- if you are happy to always keep your strong English accent and never progress further than the very basic grammar (the present, the future and the compound past tense) and the very basic conversational French that will see you right in the hardware store but won't take you into any kind of philosophical or cultural discussion -- the kind of which the French cannot live without.
And then there are the seriously good French teachers - who do not charge a measly €10 in return for a measly and worthless lesson, but who charge the going rate for properly qualified language teachers and in return give you true value for money: You learn the language -- the grammar and the idiom and the references and the background, but you also learn about the culture, the thinking, the history, the literature, the philosophy, the passions of the French people.
It is said that to learn a new language is to gain a new soul. For the French, their language is their soul. To fully understand and speak their language is to understand and be able to inter-react with the French people. As Jean Marie Gustav Le Clezio put it so beautifully when he referred to his language as his heimat, his country; ‘…c’etait ma langue, c’est-a-dire la chair et le sang, les nerfs, la lymphe, le desir et la memoire, la colere, l’amour…’ he writes. ‘… ce que j’avias respire…la langue francaise est mon seul pays, le seul lieu ou j’habite.’ : my language is my flesh and my blood, my nerves and my lymphe, desire and momory, anger and love… that which I breathe…the French language is my only country, the only place that I live.
The Aquitaine Langues School of Languages in Bergerac offer excellent, value for money language courses for people at all the levels. I cannot recommend highly enough the intensive courses that you can attend at the school and there is still time to invest some time and money in one of these before the end of the summer -- the very best investment you will have made in this upside down world of ours -- and probably the only wise and profitable investment you will have made this year!20 Sept - 1 October Beginners and intermediary I Mon-Fri 09h30-12h30 daily
4-15 October Intermediary II and advanced Mon-Fri 09h30-12h30 daily
8-19 November Beginners and intermediary I Mon-Fri 09h30-12h30 daily
22 November-3 December Intermediary II and advanced Mon-Fri 09h30-12h30 daily
Thirty hours of intensive interactive teaching, three hours per day for two weeks at only €378 all inclusive. Definitely not an offer to be sneezed at! Contact Albert Croce NOW to avoid disappointment:
Telephone: 0033 (0) 553 74 17 85
or
Email: admin@aquitainelangues.fr
At the Domaine de La Tour
769, route de Ste Alvère, 24100 Bergerac
And, if you come to the Dordogne to attend a language course at the The Aquitaine Langues School of Languages, the ideal place to stay - and continue to practise your French between classes, is of course at Chateau Lalinde!
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