First night of French classes

Learning through the internet proves to be efficient and amusing. The BBC has a fairly good brush up course for people like me - with rusty French skills. It provides 12 weekly episodes with two videos and excercises under the rather dull title Ma France.

It was a tad boring, indeed, but I managed to refresh the basics of presenting oneself and introducing others, and getting around in traffic. Never knew a car in argot was a caisse - used bagnole or voiture - nor that a traffic jam was a bouchon - maybe because I use public transport.

I particularly liked the internet version of the dictée (dictation), in which you type the sentence spoken by the teacher. This works very well, because you get direct feedback after one sentence. Thoughly enjoyed the experience, definitely back for more tomorrow.