Bonjour à tous!
I took French classes for A1 not because I have passion for the French culture and especially not because I am a rich kid or a social climber, although I like the Adventures of Tintin, it is because I am working in a department where we serve French clients. We do emails, documents and other clerical tasks for them.
I and my teammates who didn't take the French course must enroll on our free French classes paid by our company. Luckily, the schedule of classes is within our office hours so it's a relief that we can have a little fun except if one's busy and must reach deadlines to submit documents to clients.
We had our first set of classes for 3 hours 3 times a week for about three months as long as I remember from April to June and the second set from October to November.
Personally, I like the professors. The first one is a Filipina who lived in France for so many years. The second is a French who can speak Chinese but he taught only for a short time and the last professor is also a French who can speak Tagalog and he lived here in the Philippines for ten years.
I have a hard time learning French because of the pronunciations and the spelling. Remembering the gender of things and accents such as á, ç, é and many more makes me confuse. Even I am experiencing this difficulties, the professors are fun especially the last one.
Inside our company's training room, we discuss lessons, answer activities on textbooks and online (obviously) educational french games, listen to audios, watch french movies on the last 1 1/2 hours of our class.
Since we miss our professors, we often eat at a fine dining restaurant to have a despedida.
I searched for French lesson apps and downloaded these on my ipod touch. I like the most is the free French - English dictionary app.
I hope I can take and pass the exam. After getting the A1 DELF certification. I hope I can get A2 French classes for free.
