today i write about my experiences learning french in alliance franciase
they say ... by they i mean the wise men saints philosphers etc
learning a new language changes the person.......i ain't that divine as the person who said those words but i will second it
the first day we met the first of our instructors Madam Vandana Behl ..
typical teacher kinda reminds me of all my years in school..
the demanding types...
cool class started with introduction to french as a language
the country of france etc.. then we switched to greetings
au revior .. a bientot .. i felt i was being taught to speak
like being given the words again.. realised that it is the action rather than the words .. communication is non verbal first and then non verbal..
asking someone names
comment vous vous appelez?
tu t'appelles
...
they next day we met met the other instrutor devyani ..
pretty na! the look on all the guys faces
our hearts were broken when we learnt she is married and too top it all has two kids
any ways she helped us in the pronunciation part
the next day i had this weird problem in saying the word je
to be pronounced as in meaSure
je suis meilleur
so we started with our sentences and our tales of trying to translate
somehow we all feel to give words to things we understand
let us take for example love .. we have given a term to a feeling which some say cannot be described ..
so it is inherent in social life to give words to a particular expression ,relation ..
the same way even though we can understand what most words meant in the class we still chose to translate them .. for our benefit ..(give me the benefit of the doubt.. why cause i am the batsman oops ! sorry the writer that's the cricket blood in me speaking )
so we translated .. repeated after the teacher like irritating 9 year olds
speaking some words which at first doesn't make sense .. expressions such as
je ne comprende pas were my favourites during the duration of the learning process
but then i understood that a language i to be lived ..not learnt
au revior
a bientot
