A Language Learning Tale

 Listen on Spotify here: Learning the Françiano Way  Listen on YouTube here: Learning the Françiano Way   Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Learning the Françiano Way, Or, How’s the Italian to French Going? So, how is my Italian to French learning journey going? Plain sailing, or am I stuck in port without a paddle? Yes, I know that’s an idiom mismatch, but that’s where my brain went. Well, I have had a number of issues plaguing my progress, which is to be expected. Let’s start with the big one first. Questions in French. Questions in French seem much more complicated than they are in Italian. I don’t remember them being quite so difficult first time around, but that may be because of how I’m doing my learning and that my detailed memory doesn’t stretch that far,...

EPISODE 2 Find this episode on Spotify at: Episode 2: Is this Madness? Find this episode on YouTube at:  Episode 2: Is This Madness? Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process, in real time, and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the ALLT Podcast, which stands for A Language Learning Tale. Today I’m talking about… Is This Madness, or, Starting to Refresh My French Yes, refresh. This isn’t a ‘from scratch’ deal, but a waking up of latent information hidden in those rarely visited cubbyholes in my brain. Back in my youth, French was one of the languages I learnt. In fact, everyone at school had to learn French from the first year of Secondary School – that’s age 11 for those from other nations. However, I didn’t stop there. I continued on to A levels and then on further to a Diploma in Foreign Languages for Business, which was a degree equivalent. What I learnt from doing the Diplom...