Mardi c’est diner en francais!
Just by chance, this year every member of Toad Lane has some ability to converse in French. We therefore hatched the idea of becoming a French Immersion house. This, however, failed. Instead, we’ve decided to have French Immersion dinners every Tuesday at 7pm. These are entirely distinct from the Vegan pot luck (although they are also vegan, since they are in this vegan house).
Today we had our first French Immersion dinner, and although I was nervous no one would attend, we had a good turnout and it was a success. The president of CCRI even showed up, a Francophone himself.
Sometimes difficulty with verb tenses made expressing ourselves difficult, and it was apparent that we were working at different levels skill at expression, but I think on the whole everyone was able to express themselves and understand others. Hopefully by continuing to practice our French we will at least be able to re-attain previous competences in the French language which we may have lost, and depending on how often we can get Francophones to attend, really improve our French aswell.
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