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shmokes:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on September 14, 2006, 03:34:42 pm ---
how much french are you really likely to learn in such a short space of time? To really learn a foreign language there's no substitute to actually living and working in a country that speaks the language. Have you considered trying to get a job in France for say a year before going to university?


--- End quote ---

I think I'll get quite a bit, certainly a lot more than I would get from just going to France for a month.  For one thing, I'm almost finished with a French major, so I am already starting to be pretty decent at French.  The other thing is that I will be in a language school learning French for 4 hours a day.  I will spend about as much time in french classes over the month as I would normally spend in class over an entire semester at university.  On top of that I will be living with a family that only speaks french (the school has a bunch of families that they work with), and will be eating dinner with them every night (they provide breakfast as well, but they aren't contractually obligated to actually sit at the table and eat the meal together as they are with the dinner).  On top of that, of course, I'll actually be in france so I'll be putting to use everything I've already learned.  Since I will be fully immersed, what with the school and family, not to mention the fact that it's France everywhere there, I will not only have the opportunity to practice and solidify everything I've already learned, but will be forced to.  And, of course, I'll be learning knew things every day as well.

. . . and so on.

Dartful Dodger:
Wouldn't it be easier to take over France and make them speak English?

You could probably do it from your van.  Send the king of France a letter stating that you are now king and from this day forward Francish must never be spoken.

mrhowell:
Your two choices are feed your family less or beg for money and you wonder why people think poorly of you?  Just blame Bush and people will feel sorry for.

I thought you said you work in IT.  Can't you just fix a few PC's on the side? 

shmokes:
mrhowell,

I'm not talking about starving them to death.  I'm just talking about giving them slightly less than what is adequate.  They'll still live, albeit slightly malnourished, and while my family won't be healthy, at least we'll see a healthy profit.

This is all Bush's fault.

shmokes:
Thanks Bones.  It's incredibly generous.

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