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On Location French – 13 May 2013

Bonjour tout le monde! Welcome to my last blog post about my year abroad here in St Brieuc.  I can’t believe how quickly this year has passed – it’s flown in!  I’ve just finished my last week at school, and it was so nice to see my pupils’ reactions when they found out I was

On Location French – 25 Mar 2013

Bonjour tout le monde, it’s Rose here. I’m not long back from a few weeks’ holidays from school for les vacances d’hiver, the winter holidays. It feels like I’m always on holiday! In the same theme as my last article, I decided to put my two weeks off school to good use and travel around

On Location French – 25 Feb 2013

Salut tout le monde! It’s Rose here with another blog post from France. This article comes after realising how quickly my year abroad here in St Brieuc is going in. It’s already nearing the end of February, and my contract at school finishes in April. With this in mind, myself and a few friends decided

On Location French 28 Jan 2013

Salut tout le monde, et bonne année! It’s Rose here, and after enjoying a few weeks at home over the Christmas holidays, I’m back in France. I’ve quickly discovered that the month of January for French people means two things: la galette des rois, et les soldes. La galette des rois is a French tradition,

On Location French – 10 Dec 2012

Salut tout le monde! It’s Rose here, glad to get to the end of a busy week!  I’ve been kept busy doing speaking exams with my terminale(final year) pupils this week, as well as my usual classes.  Unfortunately this week at school l’imprimante était en panne (the printer was broken) and it seems impossible to

On Location French – 15th Oct 2012

Bonjour tout le monde! Moi, c’est Rose, et je suis très contente d’écrire mon premier article! After months of planning and anticipation, I’m finally in France. I’ve been in Saint Brieuc for almost a week now, wandering the cobbled streets and pretty thatched cottages with delight. But before I start describing how I’ve settled in

On Location French – meet our bloggers

Each week you’ll be able to join our French bloggers who will be updating you on their language-learning adventure from two very different parts of France: Scott is studying in the southern city of Toulouse, and Rose is teaching English in a secondary school in St-Brieuc, Brittany. Introducing Rose Bonjour, tout le monde! My name