Improve my French

learned a new word: octroyer means to allocate. It was used in a news article about the cost of living crisis here in Haiti.

I’ve been listening to the radio in French. I’ve done two quizzes on about.com this week. Scored 100% on ordinal numbers. And I looked up lyrics to songs to use for French class. (Besides normal preparation)

Trying to read Le Cid in French- rough going.

Read a little on About.com/French and took a quiz. It was on demonstrative articles, it was easy.

I’ve been listening to the radio, RFI, in French and reading headlines, etc.
Also, just preparing for teaching and correcting papers is helping a lot.

I took a past participle quiz on About.com/french today. I’m going to try to do things like that a few times a week. Got a 92%...hmmm..I think I can beat that.

I’ve been reading some French on the internet. Sometimes just the headlines, but even in them, I find new words that I have to look up, or ones I need to check to see if I remmeber them correctly.