On 11/08/2013 14:19, Victoria Conlan wrote:
David in Normandy wrote:
Yesterday we had a booklet about beginners Welsh classes in the area,
but here everything has to be Bi lingual so half of it was in Welsh,
well if you could read that half you wouldn't need the classes.

The French government introduced some courses a few years so the
resident Brits could learn French. They published a phone number for us
to contact to book a place on the course. However, the person on the
other end of the phone didn't speak a word of English, only French.

What you don't realise is that that phone call /was/ your lesson.


I'd only just moved to France and spoke very little French at the time.
The "lesson" was a total failure. I've since learned French on my own;
without the help of the ill thought out French initiative.

--
David in Normandy.