FREN UN2122

The main thing that I learned was how to speak French more naturally. We learned a lot of colloquialisms, cultural quirks about the language, pronunciation tips, and general rules about how to sound more like a person and less like a textbook.

learned a lot more colloquial terms and how to speak French like a French native speaker

Assiduité - 20% Petits Interros - 15% (really challenging!) Listes de vocabulaire - 10% Participation (orale en classe et devoirs) - 20% Présentation finale - 10% Présentations orales - 25%

I learned a lot of French idiomatic expressions and vocabulary and helpful pronunciation rules, and I think my listening and speaking fluency in French improved overall.

Zachary Desjardins-Mooney was fantastic in teaching us conversational french - from formal french, to more daily sayings/niche words. His perspective, being Canadian, allowed us to experience French from multiple perspectives and introduced us to a variety of spoken French.

This course really helped increase my confidence in speaking French - very comfortable environment where we learned a lot while earnestly practicing our French. For instance, we learned about the rhyme schemes of sonnets, about several French film creators, and about various political topics. This class was also a good environment to learn more about our peers, through often sharing experiences and opinions in French.

Was able to practice speaking and expand my vocabulary over the course of the semester. Also iron out some of the trickier grammar rules.

I become more fluent and comfortable speaking French and that comfort increase my confidence and motivation to continue learning the language of Louis XIV

Outside of extensively expanding standard vocabulary, I also got a much better grasp of French slang and idioms. Moreover, my ability to speak French freely greatly improved.

I'm pretty sure Queuniet didn't like me all too much. I forgot to turn in a vocab sheet quite in time, and she was pretty obviously miffed. That being said, I want to give her the highest possible recommendation! Sophie is a strong native speaker with an incredible vocabulary. She can call to memory random words, define them using only french, and still make it all interactive and fun. In a conversation class, you'd figure that there would be a lot of awkward silence, even from the professor, but it wasn't like that at all! She wasn't an overbearing, domineering professor that solely commanded the class. Nor was she a (pardon the French) laissez-faire professor, leaving it all to the students. Sophie was the excellent medium; she managed to steer conversations effortlessly from topic to topic, leaving all students satisfied. She brought in some french students to talk to, played "Taboo" with us, broadened our vocabulary immensely, and forced us to speak only in French. She was an excellently versatile professor, able to handle everything. That being said, she was by NO means an easy-A professor. If you struggle with vocab every so often like I do, she can be pretty brutal on quizzes. I haven't heard of any other Conv. Fr. teacher that gives quizzes yet. She also judges your presentations pretty harshly, but makes excellent criticism points. She wasn't an easy teacher, but if y…