I know that learning French is not a race. But I cannot help but desperately want to be ahead of Bill. And I want to be ahead naturally… without having to pour over books and study for hours on end.
Today my French lesson was with a teacher I’ve only had a couple of times before… and who is frequently Bill’s teacher. At the end of the lesson he told me that he thinks that the week of intensive lessons that Bill had this summer helped him to catch up with me and that now we are on the same level.
I should be happy for him that in one week he accomplished so much. And I am. But I’m annoyed that I didn’t accomplish more. While Bill was increasing his lessons over the summer, I had to decrease mine. It just is too hard to have lessons at the house with Kaitlyn around. It’s a little better than it was but it’s still not ideal. So all summer I only had one lesson. Maybe a lesson and a half… because for the 45 minutes that she had a lesson I had one too. But that is no match for a week of three hour intensive lessons.
I suppose I could ask to have a week of intensive lessons. But I don’t want that. I just want to wake up one day and be able to understand what they’re saying on the radio, be able to complete a sentence while speaking to Kaitlyn’s teacher, be able to answer the cashier if she asks me anything other than the one question I have come to expect. (Avez vous un carte fidelite? Do you have a frequent shopper card?)
I guess right now I should go do my homework.
R2D2 backed up to a socket in the wall, plugged in and downloaded data as required. Do you have such sockets there? économiserait beaucoup de temps
the voltage is different and those language socket adapters are really hard to find