Je ne sais pas
Over the past few months I’ve become increasingly sick of myself saying I wanted to do something, yet not actually doing it. One such thing I’ve wanted to do for a while, is learn French.
I did a term of it in Year 7, way back in ‘94, and enjoyed it. I vaguely remember playing “Il Professore†in a radio play my teacher wrote himself. Our school didn’t offer French beyond that so I ended up doing Italian for three years, which was enjoyable enough, but the teacher I had was one of those wankers who mistook his own brooding for intelligence. Nuff said.
So, back to French. I want to learn the language, but have very little spare time beyond what I spend in transit (around 80 mins a day) and I usually listen to the old iPod. Using my excellent skills of multi-tasking, I decided to check out some “Learn French†podcasts. I found a few but decided to download the first 12 lessons of this one. From what I can gather so far, each lesson is between 6 and 14 minutes in length and covers the basics, before moving on to more conversational challenges. There are PDF tools you can download too which could be good.
I’m interested to see what I can pick up and am looking forward to it. The real challenge will be not talking along whilst listening to my iPod on the train…
Great idea and good luck.
I wish I had taken a second language myself. I guess there is still time when I’ve finished my degree (assuming I do
).