First of all, just wanna comment on how beautiful the city of Sherbrooke is. We are so blessed to be living here during our time of French study. The fall colors have been incredible so far. We have already had some snow flurries, so I suppose it is promising to be a long winter. 🙂
So, what does our day look like. The picture above is a part of our day we would love to shorten, but we haven’t determined yet how to teleport ourselves where we need to be. 🙂
A typical day/week looks like this
- Breakfast and getting kids school lunches ready
- Eat Breakfast
- Drive Emmanuel and Elena to the Parole De Vie Campus where one of us waits with them for the bus.
- Drive James and Jada to their daycare/pre-school
- Drive back to the Parole De Vie Campus for classes which start at 8:45 AM
- Classes are until 11:50 each day, except Wednesday. (Wednesday we start Chapel at 8:30 AM and have a Bible Vocabulary Workshop from 1:30-2:20)
- After classes are out we drive to pickup the twins from daycare
- Lunch
- Homework which consists of several things 1 hr Rosetta Stone, 1 hr French Media (Radio, TV etc). During out drive time we listen to the radio for our media time.
- We have some weekly homework items that we fit in throughout the week.
- Scripture verse memory in French
- 60 minutes of Bible reading in French with a Bible school student. This involves 3 trips to campus per week
- 10 5 minute conversations in French (this starts this next week)
- I think it is 50 minutes of French Reading (this starts this next week)
- Drive to campus to pickup Emmanuel and Elena from the Bus
- Work on the kids homework with them
- Dinner
Difference: So as we learn a new language there are things called False Friends. These are words that you hear and think you know what they mean…but they mean something VERY different.
French: Demande = to request or to ask for. This one really gets me. The other day I was in the grocery store asking and wanted something. One of the people working in the store pointed to a manager and said Demande……from him. I was thinking…I just wanted to ask if you had any of the 10 kilo bags of flower, I don’t want to demand anything from you. 🙂
Angie Houk says
I’d love to hear more language stories. I took French in high school.