She always reminds me to write the English for the French. Comment s’appelle la femme du president? Thinking I meant Trump, she couldn’t remember. I (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Nyah’s March 21 tprs lesson #105
03/22/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentLa porte du garage ne se leve pas, I said as an opener, se lever being a word we only used once some time ago (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s March 6 tprs lesson #96
03/09/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentLooking at my map of the forest Little Red Riding Hood walks through, Nyah saw a fish in the lake and said “poisson”, the first (Continue Reading)
Serious issues in French
01/20/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentSome where at some time a article on pedagogical issues in French was illicitly copied by me. It had appeared in The Modern Language Journal (Continue Reading)
Great idea of mine…. but is it tprs?
12/12/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I texted Nyah about when we were going to meet. She answered with ‘oui’. So I texted back Ah! Vous parlez francais and she (Continue Reading)
tprs stories as a Rorschach test
12/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs our students create their stories in the story-asking feature of tprs, we might see their productions as a kind of Rorschach test. What do (Continue Reading)
A bit more reflection on tprs
12/04/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I tried to survey blogs on tprs again. One in particular I wanted to join in on and it is via Word Press, the (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #55 Dec. 3, 2018
12/03/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe continued today with the mermaids or sirens who can transform themselves and eat men. (???) I will continue with this post, transcribing parts of (Continue Reading)
Nyah Lesson #53 Breakthrough
11/26/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy problem has been in asking the story, getting her to come up with “cute answers.” Today finally she did. I structured the story as (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson 68, Nov. 9 VR #49
11/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentInteresting how it hit her that the ‘a’ and ‘avait’ of ‘il y a’ and ‘il y avait’ is not ‘is’ and ‘was’, like in (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson # Nov. 5
11/06/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentQu’est-ce que c’est que les animaux disent aux princesses? She’s ugly. Before I set the recorder up I’d asked the same question and she replied, (Continue Reading)
Oct. 17 Lesson 56 The Story
10/19/2018 Pat Barrett 1 CommentFeel free, as always, to correct the French. Un etudiant habitait a l’universite ou il etudiait l’informatique. L’universite se trouvait aux Etats-Unis et l’etudiant s’appelait (Continue Reading)
Nyah Oct 18, Lesson 56 reading a story
10/18/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I tried to use our newer words and so I started a “simple” story that wound up going on for over a page and (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #52 Oct. 10
10/16/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentVous pouvez lire et ecrire. Zero (her dog) ne peut pas ni lire ni ecrire (new words) Oh, oh, it’s like the Spanish leer (I (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s first lesson June 25
10/16/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentFirst TPRS French lesson. Ou est Flower? (my dog) Chez vous (she answered in French. That was pretty much the last time. By October she (Continue Reading)
Transcription of Nyah’s lessons Oct. 2
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis lesson took place on Oct. 2, 2018 at Nyah’s house without the vocab posters. Il y a un animal chez nous. l’animal est un (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #50 Oct. 4, 2018
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis is the first post of transcripts of my lessons in French with my granddaughter using purely tprs. The sessions last strictly 30 minutes, so (Continue Reading)
Nyah Oct 5, Lesson 51
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecapping a character in her story: camarade de chambre….. Oh, roommate hote……… that’s why the little tent is there (noting circumflex accent on hote for (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson Sept. 24 – 3 months, 23 hours in
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentFirst recorded lesson after the initial lesson in June. La groupe (rock) ne joue pas a l’eglise. Why would they play in a church? _________________________________________ (Continue Reading)
TPRS first of August, Lesson 18
08/01/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentLook at other entries in this category and recall we began July 2 or so. My concern has been that I feel I am not (Continue Reading)
July 25, 2018 Where We Are 14 Lessons In TPRS
07/25/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe had to miss a lesson today (she was dog sitting) and Monday (we had an appt over in Phoenix), and yesterday we were talking (Continue Reading)
A bottomless resource
07/24/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentOne great advantage to TPRS is that anyone who speaks a language can teach that language with no more training than TPRS requires. So if (Continue Reading)
TPRS with my granddaughter
07/19/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentJune 19 I’ve read Ben Slavic’s TPRS in a Year and am prepared as much as I can be to teach my granddaughter French via (Continue Reading)