French 101

Ah my gawd!!

I am sure that there is an equivalent phrase in French but in case your wondering let me have a go at translating that for you... basically it means I am struggling and nervous about trying to learn French and I have only done one very basic lesson!!

So here's the update - I think I talked about discovering podcasts in my last blog - I was mucking around on my IPOD (not IPAD Trixie, IPOD, remember the difference and stop using them interchangably...) downloading an album and I stumbled into a section of itunes that related to podcasts.

Not being highly techno (have you worked that out yet?), I bravely kept looking and found this section languages and voila, there was a whole lot of lessons on any language you can imagine. I downloaded Lesson 1 from Coffee Break French and started listening to it this last week.

So the plan of attack is to use my spare time travelling listening to these lessons and I have to say 'so far, so good'- apart from managing to delete the podcast the following time I tried to use the IPOD.  I perceivered....

So here I am at the end of week one and we have done "yes", "no", "I am well thanks" finishing with "and you"? Some might pick this up really quick but me, I have had to listen to it about 15 times but fingers crossed, sometime within the next millenium, I might be able to download Lesson 2!!

Have a look at these podcasts on itunes - i saw some great stuff that I also want to explore, including several lectures and interviews.

Maybe soon I will be able to say 'so long' when I finish these posts...

Welcome ...2013

Welcome to the new year... what will it bring? I am looking forward to another year of mulling over all things French and enjoying any opportunity to do some "French Dreaming"...

Whilst I have been on my l-o-n-g holiday break I have nearly managed to catch up with reading my France magazines - I subscribed about 6 months ago. Each month they arrived and I was just too busy to sit and give them the undivided attention I wanted to give them. So, this break, ahhhhh - I have sat and dreamed by way through them.

One of them put me onto the French language lessons available on i-tunes - did you know that?? So I jumped on, downloaded some language podcasts and voila, I will be increasing my vocabulary toot-sweet!!

I have not had the chance to do something thats part of my holiday routine for several years now however. I always know that I am on a break when I find myself sitting outside under my sun umbrella, little coffee plunger ready to go, reading Vicki Archers 'My French Life"- its my inspirational story. An Australian who spends her time living between the south of France and London. I think I would like to do that if I won Lotto.

So lets see where this year takes us - lets see what French Dreaming  we can do in 2013!!