French Conversation Advanced - More Information
Our Objectives
- Increase our vocabulary
- Improve our pronunciation
- Learn about French culture, politics etc
- Meet together as a friendly support group
How we work
- We meet fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons throughout the year
- Meetings are hosted in our own homes, based on a rota
- Our reading and translation homework for each meeting is selected by the host from a bi-monthly magazine in French for anglophone readers, "La Vie Outre-Manche", which contains articles on a wide variety of interesting subjects
- We previously used another book, "Read and Think French" which is intended to increase French fluency while learning about culture,
traditions, history, travel, and gastronomy in French-speaking countries. - Our conversation topics cover a wide range of subjects.
- We read and discuss books by French writers such as Georges Simenon and Patrick Modiano
- We have a full complement of members who have all been in the group since its inception in 2015