Je voudrais avoir un bon professeur

When you turn 25 and go back to the class to learn something new, you expect things to be easier then when you were in the school, don't we? Atleast I thought so when i decided to take up french, but I felt no better then what I felt when I was in class 6-7-8......feeling of being not sure, thought of being ridiculed for asking a question and proving myself stupid all came back to me. I tried to analyse the situation on what is going wrong and why am I finding it difficult to learn with ease. Was I not paying enough attention? Was I not gaining interest? NO, the problem is that I am not understanding completely what I am learning. But who is responsible for it? Is it Me or my Faculty? I might sound biased but it is surely my faculty and I have a strong reason to say so 1) The faculty is moving at a pace to finish the course in time and not to ensure that all the students learn 2) Asking questions / doubts seems to be banned - cause when you do your faculty goes on a different trip and starts blaming everybody around. After this experience, I have totally realised that it is so important to have good teachers who teach you for understanding. I would like to thank all those teachers who have helped me understand and would like to gift a book on How to teach effectively to my French teacher (I might actually do that at the end of the course). But there is a silver lining in this too, I have started believing in EI's vision of Learning with Understanding :)

Je ne comprends

Je ne comprends - I dont understand, that was my state of mind in the class today. Day 1 when i learnt about 14 words/sentences i thought its gonna be easy, but today when things got more intense with more than 60 sentences/words/numericals coming my way i realised this is not going to be so simple and easy. I am hoping for things to get better from here and I use less of google translator after my 100 hours language course.

French Revolution Begins!

With my first class of French language my French Revolution has begun. Infact the desire to capture all of my french learning has inspired me to start this blog.

Waking up at 6.30 am :( was not a great motivator to start something new but somehow I managed. And today I got my new French name 'Eric'. And this is what i learned today

•  Jem' appelle Eric (My name is Eric)
• Je suis indien (I am Indian national)
• J'habite a' Ahmedabad (I live in Ahmedabad) 
• Enchante (nice to meet you) 
• Je parle Hindi, Gujarati, Anglais, et un peu Francais (I know Hindi, Gujarati, English and a little bit of French)
• Ma langue maternnel est gujarati (My mother tongue is Gujarati) 
• Ao revoin (bye)
• A demain (see you tomorrow)
• Bonne journee (have a nice day) 
• Merci (thank you) 
• Oui Cava (all is well)

 Today almost after 20 years i learned A B C D....again - French style. Why do french write something else and speak something else. But I am sure i will learn their ways soon. And with Arnauld and Roseline by my side in the class I am sure its gonna be two months of fun learning.Today we three even made our first hindi-french song 'hooth ghuma, sitti baja, sitti baja ka bol bhaiya Oui Cava, Oui Cava (all is well) O bhaiya (Oui Cava).