Glenn Beck, Le Singe

This week I started a French immersion course at Fiaf. So far I am enjoying it tremendously. The small class size gives the course a really intimate feel. The professor has chosen a pace that asks just enough from me without being overwhelming. It has just been a terrific fit.

Today the professor asked us write an imaginary blog post on a French website. The topic could be anything we wanted. We hadn't quite covered the vocab necessary to write about how religion and science are incompatible, or how terrifying it is that Glenn Beck can gather the attention of the entire wing of the psychiatric ward he will one day inhabit, never mind hundreds of thousands of people. So instead, I decided to write about why I decided to take the course in the first place (I apologize in advance for not producing all the characters necessary to write French here):

Porquoi j'etudie le francais

J'aime regarder le cinema francais. J'aime manger la cuisine francaise, et j'adore dire les mots francais: oui, d'accord, ratatouille, merci et mon mot favori - le singe! Ce sont les raisons pour lesquelles j'etudie le francais.