The language class I take is Advanced-French. It’s a pretty awesome class even though I’m terrible at French. I used to hate French, partially because I was really bad at it, but now my perspective has changed as the class is really fun. We do all kinds of projects and speak in French for 100% of the class, which really helps you exercise you’re vocabulary. If you’re scared of talking in French or Spanish all the time, don’t be and just give it a try. (This to the right is Titou, make sure you ask Ms. Wildfong to play it if you take French).
Some useful links for Frenchies:
Wordreference.com
Great site for congugations, dictionaries, and help.
myWpi
Use your myWpi account if you have one, it has some great sources once your class website is connected. Use it!!
Here's a french to french dictionary, pretty useful: French Dictionary
This is a video that I first saw Last year (10th grade) in my french class. I just find the dancing hilarious :P.
If you would like to see the kind of work we do, here are some of the very first assignments done. The first one is about an article that we read explaining the importance of learning a second language, the second were a few questions that we had to answer, and the last is an audio file for a fairy tail that I worked on with John:
Article Response In the begining of the year we read this article to help reinforce/justify why we are taking french. A good read as I have some doubts. :P
Movie Questions We read and watched the Beauty and the Beast (in french of course). Here was a packet that we had to answer, with my incorrect french probably.
This was a fairy tale that John and I had to make. Its about a bear that wants to fly an airplane but everyone makes fun of him (as in the animals of the forest). The bear ends up stealing a plan after hitching a ride behind a hunters truck. I'd have to say this is a pretty cool story.
This is a recording of Harry Potter in French! We had to listen to this clip and then record ourselves talking, trying to incorporate the correct accents and tone. I have a lot of trouble with it, but its managable.
