It is Wednesday afternoon, and I have begun to aggressively pursue the enhancement of my nearly non-existent French vocabulary. Today is scheduled to memorize the days of the week, the numerals from 11 to 20, and the tens to 100. (For those of you who do not know French, 70 is stated as sixty-10, 80 as 4 twenties, and 90 as 4 twenties and 10 - go figure!) TIF (This is France.)
Nancy had fun learning how to use the washer and dryer - you don't use coins, you use tokens in the machines. I did manage to figure out the microwave ovens at work, and no, the user interface is nothing like those in the USA. (Did you ever have to figure out how to ask for finger-nail clippers when you were not sure of the language. By the way, for some reason left and right get confused by those who say they speak a little bit of English.)
I am not complaining, mind you - just explaining that their are interesting daily challenges.
I have set our car GPS to use French language announcements and metric units, and can actually understand the directions without looking at the screen for the pictorial most of the time.
Not sure what we will do this weekend - depends on the weather which right now is forecast to have a chance of rain. We will certainly do some exploring, however.
Life is good. C'est si Bon!
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Tres bien, mon pere! Lundi, Mardi, Mecredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi, Dimanche...
ReplyDeleteConniasez-vous les mois en francais, aussi?
Les histoires de tons aventures, c'etes charmantes! Merci bien!
Connais-tu il y a des lessons francais sur iTunes? Ils sont Podcasts, est tu peut les téléchargement sans cout.
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