the french language school is in paris, you have 3 hours of classes everyday and have to talk french all the time, you're not allowed to speak english. which would be better, the school or the french family?
3 weeks by the way
2007-06-15 10:30:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Can't you board with a french family while going to the school? That would be ideal.
2007-06-15 10:35:14 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You'd probably learn more staying with a French family, because you are exposed to French all the time. Whereas if you go to a French school some children could know English and then you'll tend to rely on their translation. A French family is better.
2016-05-21 03:56:11 · answer #2 · answered by mavis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I totally agree with the previous answerer. I spent a week with a French family so for you that would mean no English at all which is ideal. Without the family you would be more tempted to hang around with English speakers and shy away from French TV and radio (which helps enormously by the way). Have a great time in France! Bon chance et j'espere que tu y aies une bonne fois!
2007-06-15 10:41:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Previous responses are spot-on; full-on immersion is the only way. Summer after my freshman year, I enrolled in a very similar-sounding program in Madrid, through my university. 6 weeks, 3-4 hours of class four days per week, NO English. I, along with with two other guys from the program, boarded with a four-foot-nine single mother who spoke about five words of English.
If we had been on our own, the natural tendency to slip into English would have prevailed, and much of the experience would have been lost (we really only got the opportunity when we would jaywalk to the 7-11 at midnight for American-style junk food). Living and interacting with family exclusively in Spanish adds so much more to simply learning it in school. We were also asked to keep journals, and visited cultural points of interest as well as other Spanish cities every week. I easily learned more Spanish in these six weeks than I did during the entire ten year period I took classes in schools. It was also one of the best overall experiences in my life, and staying with Maribel's family was a tremendous part of that.
Do it all the way- you won't regret it!
2007-06-15 10:56:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi !
why couldn't you have both ? staying with a french family and go to a french language school ? If you're about to go to France, where will you live ?
2007-06-15 10:52:22 · answer #5 · answered by Sam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should use both.
For theory and practice.
One is nothing without the other.
2007-06-15 13:25:24 · answer #6 · answered by russiancatsima 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe the school is better
2007-06-15 11:06:37 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋