Well here we are on a beautiful sunny summer’s day and I’ve decided it’s time to reclaim this blog and to try and get into the habit of posting on it more regularly. I haven’t been too busy working on this site as I’ve been studying for a tax qualification whilst working as a tax assistant for my Dad. Since taking the exams, though, I have realised I’m missing French, Read More »
Sometimes the advice offered to tourists by the numerous and well-intentioned posters placed around hotels can vary from amusing to incomprehensible. Whilst living in France I was luck enough to embark on a road trip down from Rouen to Grenoble and back. On the way we stopped in Dijon, which is a delightful town with lots of cultural heritage (not to mention the mustard!) and plenty to see and do. Yet the most interesting thing I found there was a poster on the hotel room door Read More »
Ayant enfin reçu mes resultats d’Oxford (2.1) et étant bien reposé après mes vacances en Bretagne je me suis mis à travailler pour mon père, comptable indépendant. Par rapport à ce que je faisais avant, à Oxford, c’est très différent! A Oxford je lisais des romans, des pièces de théâtre, des revues linguistiques. Bref, je m’occupais des lettres. Read More »
When I spent a year working in France as an assistant English teacher I was often complimented on my spoken ability. When I first arrived everyone seemed surprised that someone had actually taken the time to develop a French accent in the first place and that there was an assistant who could actually speak French properly Read More »
Last week I was on holiday in France, Brittany to be specific. We were staying in a beautifully secluded house halfway up a cliff that could only be reached by a dirt track only just (I can’t emphasise just HOW MUCH I mean only just!) wide enough for our car. The interesting thing that happened while I was there is we went to an aquarium not to far from Saint Malo Read More »
After taking my French exams at Oxford over a period of two weeks at the end of May I finally received my results after a long wait. As it is a humanities subject everything gets marked twice to make sure that there is no bias, which means that the release schedule for the results is much slower than for science subjects. Because of this Read More »