parlez vous français?
 

Would there be any French speaking Lott'ers present?

Moonie Jr. is taking French class and needs a bit of extra help. In addition to more traditional methods (tutor, etc...) I'm wondering what technological help I can get him.

For example, will Microsoft Word check his grammar if we put it in french mode the way it does for English?

Are there other applications for the aspiring French student that you might recommend?

Thanks for any help.

Learning a language is hard work but when you have put in that hard work, it becomes pure pleasure.

It's great you have a tutor. Ask your tutor for links to online drills. If your tutor isn't familiar with those, find another tutor.

If there's something I can help you with long distance, PM me the grammar points your son needs help with and I'll find you free online drills.

As for the grammar check, the point is for Moonie Jr. to learn to come up with stuff himself. The only way to learn is to make mistakes and learn from the mistakes. We crawl before we walk and we walk before we run.

Non.

You might look into Rosetta Stone. It's not a formal grammar, as such, but a see-and-say thing, which seems to teach grammar by dint of repetition.

i dont know if this can help you but i'm french and i'm living in France .

I already met LOT Members in California and Florida and even in Paris . If you need any help with your french i ll try to do my best .

Oui mon cher monsieur je parle Francais . J'ai habité en Floride pendant 1an a Orlando et j'ai beaucoup aimé .

Si tu as besoin d'aide pour la Grammaire francaise n'hésite pas a me demander je suis a ton entiere Disposition .

And may I add, you speak english quite well. :snap:

Hey. What about London?;)

oh yeah and i also met Not Afraid in London and the gang .

Excusez moi !!!!!

Tori is learning French now and even though it's still at the basic conversational level (salut, qui est-ce, ca va, etc) it's been challenging explaining rules like dropping the end vowel off an article when it precedes a word that begins with a vowel sound or H. I can't wait for regular and irregular verb tenses- that will really mess with her mind.:evil:

I. love. French. verbs. I glory in them. Revel, even.

French verbs are total, like traditional Japanese culture is total. They demand commitment, discipline, complete devotion.

French verbs are so gloriously logical, if you look at them en masse and in all their tenses. Sumptiously, rigorously beautiful, that's what they are.

I agree with the logic in them, Helen, but it's not easy explaining to a kid who is still grappling with the crazy rules of English and has a hard time understanding why the past tense of 'strike' isn't 'striked', or 'run' isn't 'runned'. Truth be told, even though verb tenses of French change according to which personal pronoun applies, etc, it does make more sense. It's been years since I studied French, but it's amazing how those verb tenses just stick with you.

Here's a tip: Get a couple good, fully-conjugated, really FOUL sentences full of nice, conjugated curse words in different tenses (use a different sentence/verb per tense, not multiples of same). I guarantee if your kid remembers nothing else, they'll remember the cursing. And interestingly enough, they can build on that knowledge.