Salut! Allo! Hola!

Welcome everyone! It's so cool seeing new faces. Our newest students are brilliant, hard-working and fun. The veteran students continue to be brilliant, hard-working and fun. I know that all the faculty absolutely loves coming to work.

For the first time at NHASA I will be teaching Spanish and German in addition to the full-time French classes. I am not as fluent in Spanish and German as I am in French. However, I am very capable of taking the Spanish and German students through at least 2 levels/years of their language. By that time we will have found teachers for these languages.

Last week I spent time getting to know everyone and figuring out their level in their language. This week we have our noses to the grindstone. Speaking, reading, writing and listening will be practiced in all 3 languages. If your child has difficulty speaking please do not think that they haven't learned anything. Speaking is the most difficult part of learning another language. The quickest way to learn to speak another language is by total immersion in a country where the language is spoken. Personally, my mission is to prove that this isn't the only method and that one can learn to speak fluently just from school classes.

Phrase of the week

Tu te rendes compte?
Puedes creerlo?
Konnen Sie, glauben es?

French 1 - Beginner /Intermediate

Beginner students: Imali, Raquel, Kaleha

Currently learning greeting and pleasantries. We have also started the French Now workbook. They are studying the 2 most important verbs of the French language: Avoir - to have and Etre - to be. They will also be learning about genders, agreements, definite and indefinite articles. We have covered the alphabet as well as numbers 1-10 and colors. Much, much more to come!

Intermediate: Hanna

Hanna continues to learn her verbs in the present tense. We are now working on IR and RE verbs. Huge review of vocab as well as new vocab. We will be speaking a lot more this year. Our new Easy French Reader and Dialogue Sympathiques books prove to the students how much they already know and gives them confidence in the language.

Hann will be learning past, future and conditional verb tenses this year.

French 2 A & B Intermediate/Advanced

French 2A class: Intermediate/Advanced-French 3:
Scott Michael, Kalden, Tyler, Bobby
Advanced-French 4:
Jeremy, Joe
French 2B class: Intermediate/Advanced-French3:
Hallie, Fiona, Cailee, Connor
Beginner/Intermediate-French2:
Will

Beginner: Will Datilio - please see plan for Will under Hanna, French 1.

Intermediate/Advanced-French 3:

Fasten your seatbelts. Huge grammar push and lots of reading. We are currently reading magazine articles that will increase our vocabulary and demonstrate grammar we've learned and will be learning. This is the year they will learn to really speak the language with a good amount of fluency.

Advanced - French 4:

Lots of reading in this class. They will also learn to write business correspondence and write an address that one would give to the United Nations.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

German and Spanish information coming

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