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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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If you are Canadian, you can do no better than the government sponsored program. It is 5 or 6 weeks and your tuition and residence room are all paid for, including 3 meals a day. You will need more money for extras and for more food, but so much of it is covered for you. They say you need about $500 of your own for the 5 weeks. I did it at UQTR in 2002 and it was fantastic. You really are in a French environment and if they catch you speaking anything but French you get in trouble and eventually sent home. They give out red cards and if you get 3, you go home. I got 2 in the last week. Anyways, here is the link.
http://www.myexplore.ca/english/index.html
I don't know if this is the proper website, but maybe it is. If you aren't Canadian you can also attend, you just have to pay for it. |
How many of you can say they could get away with doing that in your classes in Korea? |
I don't know about classes, but all these English camps should have something like this. And kids should be more mature and older (*at least* a mature 13 or 14) before attending them.
Speaking only French with a bunch of other French learners was actually really fun, including the whole ceremony of signing an agreement and burning it at the end. I remember I met someone at the camp a couple of days *after* the camp in an airport in Halifax, and we started conversing in French, naturally. It never even occured to me until I was on my flight that we were speaking French with each other rather than English. |
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Lao Wai
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: East Coast Canada
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Hey,
I don't want to sound like a snob or an elitist, but...I'm concerned about the quality of French I'd learn in New Brunswick. I say this because I was taught standard French in school (I'm an Anglophone). Yet, when I had summer jobs, I worked with Acadian Francophones and had a really hard time understanding their French. Yet, when I listened to people from France speak French, I had an easier time understanding them. I could understand people from PQ but still had an easier time understanding France French. I have no interest in learning 'Shiac' or a local dialect in New Brunswick. Even my Acadian co-workers admitted that when they went to the French university they had to 're-learn' a lot of their French because what they had been speaking their entire lives was not standard. |
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