Bonjour!

Yesterday I found this blog and was so excited. Erica has been wanting to learn French and my attempts have left her bored stiff. I'm hoping to find some inspiration from Katie! At the very least, it will give us some reading about all thing Francais. 

Katie also has an amazing give-away--a Rosetta stone French level one curriculum. Perfect for us homeschoolers! I hope to win, of course (which is one reason I am posting this) but it's also fun to share other people's blogs. If you are interested in french cuisine, culture, history and language, check it out!

Way back (way, way, way back) in high school I took two years of French and loved it. I was also concurrently on my third and fourth year of German. I loved French. German, well not so much. But my siblings had taken German and I think grandpa would have been very disappointed had I chosen not to continue in their footsteps. Whenever we went to their house for a gathering he would ask us "Was willst du haben?" (what will you have?) as he served everyone their drinks. I will never forget that, but most of my four years of German have leaked out of my brains.

There was something about French though. Perhaps it's just the way the language sounds, that I really loved. So I continued in college and briefly considered it as a major (that's a whole nother Oprah!), but I didn't. However I did learn how to make kick-ass crepes from the French club crepe sale. Oooooh, la la! Again, without using the language, it has dried up in my memory. Things come back, but good resources are very helpful.

One of the great things about homeschooling is the learning that you can do with your kids. I can't remember most of what I learned in elementary and middle school. So really, these past years have been like a review for me:-) Hopefully, working together, we can help each other learn to speak French. Then we can converse with each other and HE and the boy won't have a clue what we're saying (tee, hee, hee!)