ezine March 2007

Is Poor Teaching to Blame?

Finland here I Come!

Did You Know...?

Listen Learn Speak - so easy!

One of the main barriers to learning  is often our past experience in the classroom.

The attitude of those doing the teaching counts

 - one student told me that a previous teacher always put them down in class..however with time and patience a positive attitude can be adopted. 

  If this happened to you:-

See yourself as an intelligent person.  

Affirm to yourself that learning is getting easier and easier every day.  

Keep on doing this until it becomes something that you can really believe.

Watch how it will impact other areas of your life as well.

"Learning Finnish is challenging.  LFA is creating new products so I have been rather busy and there is not much out there in the way of Finnish resources, but I do a lot of listening in my car to other languages that I speak..   

 I know two verbs, to have and to be, in the present tense and some nouns, colours and numbers. 

I will  add the verb to go and some place names then it's over to my daughter in law for pronunciation.  

I have to constantly plan to fit  learning in so in the summer I will  try out my language skills in Finland again - that should be fun".

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This gives a huge amount of information about France in various sections of travel, food, history etc.

This looks at all the countries of the world where French is spoken.

How many can you count?

Which number, when written as a word, has its letters in alphabetical order?

This was an answer in a crossword I was doing: - foudroyant

What does it mean?

Language Careers

Programme Co-ordinator, at the Regional Language Network (RLN)   Frances Pallett , enjoys promoting languages

 through her work by helping businesses and individuals in the West Midlands to access language skills and services, providing advice and information to anyone with a language or culture-related query.

With  A level French, Frances went on to University to study International Business Studies, studying Japanese

 alongside French and was due to spend a year working in France as part of her degree course.  Things did not go to plan, however, and by Christmas of her second year Frances was forced to leave university due to ill health. 

2 years later M.E. was finally diagnosed and by this time the only contact Frances had with language was helping her younger sister study for her French A Level.  As the illness progressed Frances realised her hopes of working abroad were fading along with her state of health and when she finally pushed herself back to university it was to study something else she was passionate about – English and Archaeology.

After a three year struggle, Frances gained her BA honours degree, but was still unable to work full time or take on anything too taxing.  Languages, by this point, had become a thing of the past.  Frances worked part time doing a variety of roles for several years before taking time out to have a baby.  It was on her return from maternity leave that Frances started working for the RLN – combining two of her passions – writing and languages.  She says:

‘Although I am not actually speaking or using languages at the moment I feel as though I am still doing my bit through promoting their importance to others.  I hope that when time and health permit, I will be able to refresh my French and perhaps even learn a new language.’

Just shows what you can achieve if you remain positive!

If you would like to find out more information about the RLN please contact Frances on 0121 329 3297, e-mail frances.pallett@rln-westmidlands.com or visit the website www.rln-westmidlands.com

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