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"Une nouvelle douche pour un bain linguistique"

(LOL!)

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Latest news :

"Une nouvelle douche pour un bain linguistique"

(LOL!)

www.howfrench.com -  residential courses

The Christmas fair organised by the new business association "FAB-PO" last Sunday, was a success.

Next week, we'll have our next business meeting and will plan our participation to the Business fair in London in January.

This new venture seems very hopeful.

"L'union fait la force";

"Il faut se serrer les coudes"

Je sens qu'on va schtroumpfer pendant le workshop de schtroumpf, le 17 décembre juste avant les fêtes de Schtroumpfs.

Ca nous remontera le schtroumpf .

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Sunday 23 Nov   1pm to 6pm

Christmas Fair & MONSTER raffle

Where ?
Art Themis, between St Jean Pla de Corts & Ceret

(on the right hand side of the main road from St Jean Pla de Corts to Céret – look out for the huge ear!)

What?

Arts, designer clothes, wine tasting and sales, british hampers, Christmas cards, cakes, conversation café, Vide grenier stall, orginal kiddies pressies, face painting, pate a modelé, Santa’s grotto and much, much more

MONSTER raffle:
Mega prizes to be won: Original Paintings & art works, Weeks holidays, Wine, Tours, Weekend breaks, and lots of FAB P-O surprises

Our last  workshop in 2008 will be on Wednesday December 17th, just before Christmas, at Perpignan, from 9:30 to 12:30.

What topics would you like to talk about?

Price: 30 to 45 E per person depending on number of people

Deadline for inscription: December 10th

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Do you know COLUCHE?

A very famous and special person: a film about him is coming out this week

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluche

Today's workshop went very well. There 5 of us and 4 nationalities. We talked about the financial crisis in each other's country, we read this week font pages, we played "Il ou Elle?", we talked about Coluche, we had coffee with biscuits from catalunya and Brittany.

The next workshop is planned for the end of November. We'll probably talk about the presidential elections inthe USA, we'll discuss the French system; we might have time to talk about the infamous local elections in Perpignan.

L'atelier/workshop de "pratique du français" de ce matin s'est super bien passé: nous étions 5 avec 4 nationalités différentes; nous avons p^discuté de la crise internationale et partager nos inquiétudes et comparer la situation de chaque pays ainsi que les réactions de ses membres. très intéressant!

Le prochain atelier prévu en novembre se fera probablement sur le thème des élections américaines, avec comparaison des systèmes électoraux de différents pays. Nous aurons peut-êttre aussi le temps et l'occasion de parler des fameuses élections municipales à Perpignan...

I often get comments when I write " la professeure" with an -e at the end. " you made a mistake!" 

NO, I didn't!!!

In French, we have masculine/feminine forms for - most- nouns .It was Ok for : "boulanger/boulangère, infirmier/infirmière, travailleur/ travailleuse, coiffeur/coiffeuse" etc

But there was a problem with some high level professions which have only been recently accessible to women : the name of the profession only existed  in the masculine form.

Now it has changed a bit and Jospin's gouvernement decided that all jobs had to have a feminine oral and written form.

The obvious thing would be to simply put an -E and "la" of course before the profession:

"le professeur / la professeure

Monsieur le proviseur / Madame la proviseure

Monsieur le président / Madame la présidente"

"docteur, directeur" follow different rules for other reasons...

docteur, directeur

I have a project for a workshop "learn to talk about wine in French" in November;I'm also thinking about a "cuisine/cooking" oneAnybody interested?