i salvage my French in 7 days 🇫🇷| gameplan, tips and resources, a cultural note

🌼Hi friends! My name is Emma, I'm an English tutor and language enthusiast. I had some French-speaking guests coming in to visit so I thought it would be a good idea to take 7 days to brush up on my French (after a total of 2 years studying it over the course of 20 years, and a little over 2 years since I last used it), to make my guests feel more welcome by speaking their language. In this video, I break down exactly what I did in those 7 days, to customize my study plan for this specific occasion.
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Coffee shop: Maison Marou @ 20 Nhà Thờ St., Hanoi
⏳️Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:53 How long I’ve been studying French?
1:37 The current state of my French :))
2:30 This week’s gameplan
5:30 D-7. Podcast shadowing
6:47 Takeaways from the podcast on ‘Language Acquisition’
8:11 D-6. more shadowing
9:32 Origins of the English Language
11:29 D-5. basic grammar
13:14 D-4. song lyrics + speaking practice
15:11 D-3 :)))
15:20 D-2. shadowing a Q and A
17:33 learning useful expressions
17:51 D-1. adverbs of place and time
19:39 D-day
20:56 A cultural note on the influence of French presence in Vietnam today
23:27 Speaking French with my Belgian guests
25:17 Outro
👂Listening material:
- Day 1: innerFrench Ep.01. Acquiring a language: • Acquiring a language -...
- Day 2: innerFrench Ep.03. World’s Happiest Countries • World's Happiest Count...
- Day 3: innerFrench Ep.30. Apprendre le français grâce à la musique (learn French through music) • Apprendre le français ...
- Day 4: French mornings with Elisa Ep.06. The unexpected benefits of having a dog • EP06 - Les avantages i...
- Day 6. French mornings with Elisa 500k Q and A: • Q&A : Je réponds à vos...
✨️Expressions:
- • Useful phrases to unlo...
- French filler words: • FRENCH FILLER WORDS YO...
🇬🇧🇫🇷 The French and English languages:
- A more detailed video on the origins of the English Language: • 41% of the ENGLISH LAN...
- History of English presentation template: slidesgo.com/theme/the-origin...
- [Joseph M. Williams “Origins of the English Language”]

[@Lehoanglinh1987]

What a journey of dusting off your French. Very enjoyable. You have such a gift for language, I mean English. It just shows in your script writing.

[@caddberrie]

Thanks for the encouragement 💫I think this might be my one-off French vid for a while until I need to use it again, but besides that, getting to learn (about) languages has been one of my favorite things to do for sure.

[@quochungtran4651]

You should totally send this vid to your guests 😂

[@caddberrie]

Hehe dw my guests were probably some of the first to see it!!