Further thoughts on the French stuff

I did the first two chapters of my new French book today. It's hard! But in a good way. I'm averaging about 60-70% on the practice questions, but I'm also learning a heck of a lot. It took me 40 minutes to get through the very first chapter, on definite articles (le, la, les, which pretty much translate as "the").

We had the same French teacher in class this morning, but the situation is untenable. She's working a double course-load right now and doesn't see her kids from Sunday evening to Thursday evening. The administration was supposed to find a replacement for her on Saturday, but didn't. We have no idea when we're getting a new teacher. Probably tomorrow.

Incidentally, today's class consisted of two hours of vocabulary exercises (prefixes, suffixes, compound words), a couple of texts, and a long discussion on the basics of how to analyse a narrative text. Which I knew already.

I'm very, very seriously considering just dropping out and creating a "curriculum" for myself, consisting of the French grammar book I picked up, reading the daily free French paper, and listening to some French podcasts. Oh, and trying to find someone who could correct my French writing on occasion (maybe as barter, in exchange for my helping them with their English). Frankly, I'd probably get as much out of it as I do out of the class.

That's it for now. More as it develops.