The French in me

The one reason that I liked going through random blogs was that at times I would come across some French blogs, and somehow that language really excites me! Have always wanted to learn French.

Have done 1 year of it in school (VIIth std to be precise). As expected, I don’t really remember much of it.

Was earlier thinking of joinin the weekend classes of Alliance Francais here. But the problem was that they teach about 8 hours on weekends and I wasn’t sure that I could commit my weekends for 3 months. Not that I am an extremely busy person. Far from it. The thing is that I go home once in every 3 weeks. And in August, Suneer is planning to come here, (that would mean 2 busy weekends). So I would be bunking quite a few of the classes. Not a very nice thought to be thinking about the bunking, before even joining. Guess I am one of those “practical” kinna people!

So thought that I will learn French on my own. Started last weekend. Bought a French text book, the same one that I had used in VIIth std. Took some print outs from the net, got a white board, white board markers (red, blue and black) and I was ready for my home lesson.
Loved the initial part.

It was sooo much fun and seemed extremely easy. By the time I came to the 11th chapter, my interest in the language considerably decreased.

And to top it all, I happened to surf through channels on my TV and found a French channel. Couldn’t understand one word!!! Then the thought struck me that the pronunciations may be a lil of a problem for me! It sounded like “vozh shazh muujh aszh”. Serious!

A normal person may have given up immediately. But not me. I went and got more printouts. This time, got stuff related to the phonetics. It was pretty interesting. Learnt quite a lot. The one thing which I found cute was that in French “oi” is pronounced as “uwa”. So mois (month) becomes “muwah”! It sure is an interesting language.

Will take me quite a lot of time to understand or speak French, but reading and translating written stuff should’t take too much time. The best part is that its giving me something constructive to do.

Just sitting and cribbing about weekends isn’t the coolest thing aint it?

Adieu !!