>>Eifel, Renault
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>>That's about all the French I know. Have fun!!!!
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>LOL!
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>I took 3 years of French in high school (but what a long time ago *that* was!!) and when we were in France last summer, I remembered bits and pieces of it, but it was really not even enough to get by. Good thing that Gary's French was much better than mine. He speaks it pretty good, but he was unhappy with his listening abilities ... once a French person hears him speak, they assume he speaks it fairly fluently and they will reply in rapid-fire French and he gets lost. So, he's really the one who wanted to do the French school thing. I figured, what the heck ... I could stand to learn the language a little bit better too ... at least to the point where I'll not feel uncomfortable attempting to speak it. So he didn't have to twist my arm too much to get me to go back!! <g>
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>~~Bonnie

Bonnie,

To help a bit getting you fluent without too much study: Buy some books while you're over there. Nothing very difficult. Things that are of some interest to you. eg buy some books of Harold Robbins in French. And if possible, the ones that you have read in English. Read a couple of pages every night. If there's something you do not understand, read on. You'll understand it a couple of days later

This helps a lot 'mastering the subroutines', ie storing the way things are expressed in French. And you'll end up speaking using expressions you did not know you even knew them.

I have found this technique to be very helpful

And watch the news from time to time. And like the books. If there's something you don't understand - let it. The intent is hearing and getting the feeling for it

Amuse-toi