December 2013 – tasting franglais

This month December 2013, Jeff and I organised a ‘taster’ Franglais meeting at our local bar The Café Des Belles Fleurs’ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caf%C3%A9-des-Belles-Fleurs/140218616113186 to find out if there was any interest in starting a group there to meet weekly and engage in conversation.    The idea is that French and English speakers learn from each other and have the dual roles of ‘professeur’ and ‘étudient’. We were finding it to hard and slow to learn French without much opportunity to practice.   The reason there is not much chance to practice is that we live in a high volume English speaking community (‘little England’ indeed if not even ‘wee Scotland’) and tend to get involved in many activities with English speakers.   This is a common problem for many friends – hence the meeting.    It was well attended by 20+ English and French and the upshot was that there did seem to be a demand.    Joy at CBF was happy to let us have a room in exchange for thirsty customers!   It was agreed ‘we’ (that would be me) would arrange sessions to start in January.