i salvage my French in 7 days 🇫🇷| gameplan, tips and resources, a cultural note
Channel: caddberrie
Date: 2024-04-05

🌼Hi friends! My name is Emma, I'm an English tutor and language enthusiast. I had some French-speaking guests coming in to visit so I thought it would be a good idea to take 7 days to brush up on my French (after a total of 2 years studying it over the course of 20 years, and a little over 2 years since I last used it), to make my guests feel more welcome by speaking their language. In this video, I break down exactly what I did in those 7 days, to customize my study plan for this specific occasion.

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Coffee shop: Maison Marou @ 20 Nhà Thờ St., Hanoi

⏳️Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:53 How long I’ve been studying French?
1:37 The current state of my French :))
2:30  This week’s gameplan
5:30 D-7. Podcast shadowing
6:47 Takeaways from the podcast on ‘Language Acquisition’
8:11 D-6. more shadowing
9:32 Origins of the English Language
11:29 D-5. basic grammar
13:14 D-4. song lyrics + speaking practice
15:11 D-3 :))) 
15:20 D-2. shadowing a Q and A
17:33 learning useful expressions
17:51 D-1. adverbs of place and time
19:39 D-day
20:56 A cultural note on the influence of French presence in Vietnam today
23:27 Speaking French with my Belgian guests
25:17 Outro

👂Listening material:
- Day 1: innerFrench Ep.01. Acquiring a language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2afwvUMFnsU&list=PLiXM6S--YenRaOThA6IOn-JfEdMR6hDBK&index=1
- Day 2: innerFrench Ep.03. World’s Happiest Countries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1ej2zvwWI&list=PLiXM6S--YenRaOThA6IOn-JfEdMR6hDBK&index=3
- Day 3: innerFrench Ep.30. Apprendre le français grâce à la musique (learn French through music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Lk_JUrMs8&list=PLiXM6S--YenRaOThA6IOn-JfEdMR6hDBK&index=29
- Day 4: French mornings with Elisa Ep.06. The unexpected benefits of having a dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmulI12_rlY&list=PLnUoJbvxjRggFuY6viK1g67p851sqaCBb
- Day 6. French mornings with Elisa 500k Q and A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hD3GI0sNgc&t=285s

✨️Expressions:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlP7BVXmF1Y
- French filler words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvJW9MY191g

🇬🇧🇫🇷 The French and English languages:
- A more detailed video on the origins of the English Language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciOxM0XlzaM
- History of English presentation template: https://slidesgo.com/theme/the-origin-of-the-english-language
- [Joseph M. Williams “Origins of the English Language”]