I introduced myself and they introduced themselves in turn. I asked them to tell me what it was like to study French and they told me of the difficulties as well as the easier parts. Having studied German myself for two semesters I related my experiences with that to theirs. There were some structural issues with the languages that we found to be similar as well as some cognates (words that sound similar and mean the same thing in two languages such as destroy and destruir, the first is English and the second is Spanish.) Overall I found that learning French can be conceptually easy but to execute the pronunciation and sentence structure properly can be quite difficult.
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Monday, December 2, 2013
Second French Discussion Table
I attended a second French Discussion table on Wednesday October 30th. It was held at the Blue Moon Cafe here in Shepherdstown. This discussion table was a lot less formal and I actually got a chance to really talk to the French students without it being refereed by the professor.
I introduced myself and they introduced themselves in turn. I asked them to tell me what it was like to study French and they told me of the difficulties as well as the easier parts. Having studied German myself for two semesters I related my experiences with that to theirs. There were some structural issues with the languages that we found to be similar as well as some cognates (words that sound similar and mean the same thing in two languages such as destroy and destruir, the first is English and the second is Spanish.) Overall I found that learning French can be conceptually easy but to execute the pronunciation and sentence structure properly can be quite difficult.
I introduced myself and they introduced themselves in turn. I asked them to tell me what it was like to study French and they told me of the difficulties as well as the easier parts. Having studied German myself for two semesters I related my experiences with that to theirs. There were some structural issues with the languages that we found to be similar as well as some cognates (words that sound similar and mean the same thing in two languages such as destroy and destruir, the first is English and the second is Spanish.) Overall I found that learning French can be conceptually easy but to execute the pronunciation and sentence structure properly can be quite difficult. 
French Discussion Table
On October 21st I attended a French Language discussion table at Mellow Moods here in Shepherdstown. I am personally not a student of the French language but I have always been very interested in foreign languages.
The discussion table started with the hosting professor wanting to go around the table and have everyone introduce themselves in French. I heard two people go before me and just mimicked their words and pronunciation but substituted my name and what I do. They were especially interested in the my being a voice actor. It opened a discussion about all different kinds of foreign languages and accents. I quite enjoyed it.
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