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21 May 2008

Je parle Français! :)

Yessssss.. Since I came from Paris, I wanted to learn French so badly! There were lots of reasons for it.. It was my first international trip so it had lots of sentiments and memories attached to it. And then France without French cant even imagine. I just loved the language.. loved the accent and I loved the people in France. So I nominated myself for the French training which we have in the office. (Y E S... we have lots of trainings in the office, they care of their employees, u know...). Finally in January my request got approved (I was in queue!). And then there was three months training form Alliance français de Bombay.

The course was so good and so interactive... It was fun to be a part of that class and learn something new form scratch... B U T what I realised was, learning a language in this age (okay okay.. now don’t think I m very old!!!) is very difficult. You have some predefined set of the grammar in your head, and then suddenly u learn some new rules.. Difficult hai boss!!! But it’s fun indeed...

So I gave my level 1 exam on 19th May and Oui... Je parle Français... (ahem... un petit peu!!!)

posted by PrAcHi at 4:46 pm

4 Comments:

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    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 21/5/08 22:47  

  • I love French..tho I dun speak a word other than Je taime. LOL!



    ** B U T what I realised was, learning a language in this age

    OMG dun say that Prachi! Ur never too old to LEARN anything. Ur talking like ur some 100yrs old LOL! Even seniors that old LEARN alot of new things every single day..like becoming Internet-savvy etc.

    So I say U CAN DO IT...go for it! I'd love to learn from u too then...a lil bit if French n all.
    :)

    All the best hun!

    Keshi.

    By Blogger Keshi, at 24/5/08 11:57  

  • if you are serious about it, then you should buy a copy of Rosetta Stone 9softwarE) ... which is the leading software when it comes to learning languages.

    By Blogger Nabeel, at 26/5/08 04:52  

  • Bill: Interesting site... I did not know about it!

    Keshi: Okay.. I will rephrase my words...
    B U T what I realised was, learning a language at this age is very difficult than I expected..
    I mean, I never thought learning language will be difficult at all.. Esp. when they start form ABCD!! But it was! May be I was overconfident.. I completely njoyed it, no doubt abt it. And yeah.. there is going to level 2 as well. I have nominated myself for that.. Just waiting for my manager’s approval (no comments!!).
    And yeah.. I would love to teach you..
    First lesson.. you write.. Je t'aime (and not Je taime)..

    Nabeel: Aiyyo... My hubby dear bought the same for me :)..

    By Blogger PrAcHi, at 2/6/08 16:41  

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