The Senior and the contrast

And now, please, not a word of French! The head is buzzing, and the thoughts, as if I had drunk a glass of wine too much. I have just left the school building of the Institut Linguistique Adenet (ILA) in the old town of Montpellier. After the first four lessons of the week of testing, it is clear what is waiting here. Themselves to blame, I think. You have completed the Test with 100 questions to serious. Therefore, they have divided you in a class in the third highest Level.

French I had learned once in school and later, while a total of 20 weeks, with different stays in the South of France and Paris. And then, also quite challenging examinations have been passed. But occasions that you have learned to use in everyday life, there were hardly any. Therefore, I've decided the skills. Anyone who has ever learned a foreign language, forget you never more. However, because of the lack of practice, one no longer remembers often to certain words. The conjugation of verbs is difficult, and also the once-beloved grammar is in urgent need of reactivation. I have selected a school in Montpellier. Because the memories of a language course and stay in front of sage, and after 37 years in the University city on the Mediterranean sound.

Since then, the Hérault, the capital of the Department, apart from some powerful new buildings, hardly changed. The southern French Flair has retained the magnificent old town with the narrow streets, the innumerable is still largely private-run shops and a rich gastronomic offer. In addition, the sun shines here 300 days a year, and the ten kilometres away, the beach is now by Tram and Bus easy to reach.

A stored certificate confirming that I had visited in the autumn of 1982 during the three weeks of the school each day is 6 hours. At the time I was 26 years old and expressed this long presence in the school does not have any problems. This time I chose the standard course with four lessons of 45 minutes per day. The wise decision of the Seniors.

Sabine, a slightly younger colleague from the North of Germany, confirmed that it was after a further conversation lessons in the afternoon rather tired. I have, however, after school the opportunity to stroll through the city, visit museums or take a relaxing trip to the seaside – the house refreshed to make tasks.

Of class right

taken I was me before the departure, be aware of what to expect as a now older gentleman in the class room. However, it is a wonderful feeling to realize, once again, with young people, almost all of them could be my grandchildren, or grandchildren, to French conversion, to Buffalo common verbs and solving grammatical tasks. The class took me in immediately, sincerely, from the high level of Engagement during the class, I can benefit. Although the fear is confirmed that this week the unloved contrast, with all of its exceptions to the topic. Regularly resolves the tension in the class room when someone understood a word misused or incorrectly applied, and all laugh. The teacher holds back during the lessons very much what I experienced in this Form in other language schools never. Thus, students are encouraged to communicate with each other. Make it according to progress.

Young people I meet later on. At night eat in the old town house of the host mother, Françoise, the spoils also Valentina and Natalia from Colombia, Sergei, in Finland, raised by the Russians, and Emma, a 17-year-old Dutch woman, every evening with a sumptuous meal. With a wonderful roast lamb, for example, and always a Quiche as an Appetizer. And the Senior in the round, receives wine from the nearby Languedoc-Roussillon.

courses for more Mature clientele in different regions

the voice, of Course, we talk at the table in French to the host mother leaves the room. Immediately we change slyly into English. After the dinner the ways. To accompany the Teenager in a student populated bar, or even in a nightclub, would probably not be a good idea. So I decide to show the next time you visit a language school, a course for people in advanced age. Because that's where people of a similar Generation, which can be used after the lesson or in the evening together, something to be found. Boa Lingua and other agencies that provide language schools have courses for more Mature clientele in different regions and countries of the language in the offer.

The Institut Linguistique Adenet in Montpellier, and organized a rich programme of activities. For example, tastings of cheese, wine and other regional products, guided city tours or excursions in the Camargue, Provence or Avignon, Carcassonne, Marseille, and Nîmes. No comparison to the voice stays between 1978 and 1994 in nine different places, as the students were left in the recreation mainly yourself. And you joined, exceptionally, an organized program, so you have been disappointed before. A salsa course and learning about local fruits in Costa Rica, or the Expedition of the Ecuadorian capital Quito on a high mountain peak in the Andes, where most of the participants with significant shortness of breath and fought not were heady experiences.

Today, the schools have adapted to the increased demands of the clientele. The search for a suitable and serious run school used to be time-consuming and sometimes adventurous. In the case of the Agency, Boa Lingua, the language learning stays in over 30 countries and 300 partners schools taught, one learns a previously unknown care and assistance. You have chosen a Destination, you get detailed information about the school, upon request, a host family is looking for, you can online to take a placement test and will be linked to a personal App, with many information about the country and the location.

At the end of the test week, as me guest mother Françoise accompanied prudently to the bus station, rising back up this feeling. How in December of 1978, when my Landlady and I are in front of your house in Wimbledon in London's South crying in the arms were. In Montpellier, I have trouble with the separation, I would have remained happy.

The trip was supported by Boa Lingua

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Created: 16.11.2019, 20:05 Uhr