Surviving The Holiday Travel Rush By now, I think most of us have seen the movie PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES, with Steve Martin as an ad executive doing his best to get back home in time for the holidays, who keeps getting stuck with the most obnoxious traveling companion anyone could imagine, in the person of traveling salesman John Candy. The movie is an exercise in bad luck, chronicling pretty much every travel nightmare you can...more
Why Should Students Learn French Songs One of the easiest ways to help children tackle French is to have them learn French songs. There are good and bad ways to go about this, however. In many cases, an instructor will show up with some sheet music, pass it around and, thereby, create hours upon hours of work for themselves without knowing it. This is because their students, not surprisingly, won't know how to read the words that make up...more
Why It's Better to Listen and Learn French Songs Not all language teachers believe that written materials should be introduced early. In fact, some of them believe it's a distraction from learning the language and that students are better served by materials that encourage them to listen and learn French. Where French songs are concerned, using sheet music presents another problem entirely. Students who learn French in a classroom setting are already being taken out of their linguistic comfort zone. Using sheet music alone, rather than recorded materials either with or without printed aids, can cause a lot of confusion.Sheet music is something of a relic of an older time. While it still has immense value for professional musicians, the average person no longer knows how to read it. Reading sheet music is a language and a math skill. It requires the reader to understand the pitch as it is printed on the page, to translate that into a sound in their head and to further determine the duration of that pitch relative to others based on its written shape and form. If this sounds complex, it's because that is precisely the case. All of this work distracts from the French.Songs...more
Why is it Boring to Learn French in the Classroom? The first two things to clarify about why it's sometimes boring to learn French in the classroom are that it's not your teacher's fault and that it's not because French is a boring language. In fact, every language spoken is capable of expressing the full range of human emotions and should...more
The Value of Songs in the French Classroom If you imagine a world where speaking and reading are chores, you've got a good idea of what most language classes prepare you for. Learning a new language should be fun and it should never be lost on the students that they're learning something that most people never bother to take on. One way to...more
Tackling Challenges when You Listen and Learn French When you listen and learn French, it might seem like you're being overwhelmed with information. This is true, to some extent, but it's also a good thing. Your brain will engage more if it's constantly being challenged instead of constantly being expected to memorize words and phrases. While memorization is an important part of learning a language, there is plenty of time to learn vocabulary lists and other rote materials. Learning a language really means learning to understand and speak it. In many cases, you'll find that your vocabulary builds quickly once you learn context.One way to aid with context learning and to help you to learn French fast is by keeping your ears open to cognates. These are words that sound the same in French and English and which have the same meaning. The word "banana", for instance, is the same in French and English. There are plenty of other words that share a very similar pronunciation and that provide an easy route to memorization. When you hear these words in a sentence, it provides a way for you to interpret the rest of the sentence based on the word you understood.For instance, many words...more
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With Christmas just around the corner most people will have normally bought their Christmas presents for their family and loved ones. However there is generally always someone who has got everything and it is very difficult to buy them a present. For...more
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