At the speak easy

When Janet Daniels decided that she wanted to improve her rusty French, a residential course gave her the kickstart she needed

I had always wondered how much a kickstart from a total immersion course would help to improve my rusty, schoolgirl French. Visiting the France Show at Olympia in January, I was drawn by a stand offering a week’s total immersion course in French at a language school in the Dordogne. The property looked beautiful in the photos and, when I chatted to the owner at the stand, she was very helpful. French would be spoken throughout the week and every morning would be spent in a three-hour French lesson. I signed up on the spot!

Then, with only a few weeks to go, I began to[...]

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