Long-term goal (not a resolution!)
Dec. 31st, 2005 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm going to work on my French. I'm not completely hopeless - for things normally said within a family, I have a basic passive not-quite-fluency. But I want to improve on that for a few reasons:
1. I think that it's important for me to get back in touch with my cousins, and it's more polite to do that in their language.
2. I ultimately want to learn Walloon, and I need to get to work on the French if that's going to happen.
3. I think it's important for Jenn's kids, and just hearing it from their Nanen isn't going to help them much.
The third has a sub-goal - I'm going to find or make a playgroup of people who speak French or want to with their kids. Because something within me chafes at the idea of paying a large-ish sum of perfectly good money to watch toddlers play in French. I found a program that is $15 per session, drop-in, which is much better than paying a full sum in advance, no worries if you miss a session, but it still seems silly when you don't need to and there's no underlying ethical obligation. Cows, milk, you know the adage.
Any advice on the goal and sub-goal?
1. I think that it's important for me to get back in touch with my cousins, and it's more polite to do that in their language.
2. I ultimately want to learn Walloon, and I need to get to work on the French if that's going to happen.
3. I think it's important for Jenn's kids, and just hearing it from their Nanen isn't going to help them much.
The third has a sub-goal - I'm going to find or make a playgroup of people who speak French or want to with their kids. Because something within me chafes at the idea of paying a large-ish sum of perfectly good money to watch toddlers play in French. I found a program that is $15 per session, drop-in, which is much better than paying a full sum in advance, no worries if you miss a session, but it still seems silly when you don't need to and there's no underlying ethical obligation. Cows, milk, you know the adage.
Any advice on the goal and sub-goal?
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Date: 2006-01-01 02:42 pm (UTC)There are a couple of points that I suspect are wrong, but since it's been twice as long for me as for you since my last French class, I won't venture to guess the most correct version.