French citizens fail language tests for foreigners seeking residency
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That reminds me of French lessons in my kids' school. In my daughters class were two French native speakers who nearly failed the course.
And the group of French teachers at the school were wondering why pupils usually dropped that subject at the first possible moment, I.e. in class 9.
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Well then I am wrong.
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So I'm old enough and from a poor (at the time) enough area that I was taught French from middle school to the first years of high school... I learned nothing.
I learned English by myself just by reading stuff online.
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getting the marriage license took about five months, and it was only valid for six weeks.
That sounds about right for government efficiency.
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Just glancing at your post history, you did a damn good job learning for being self-taught! I would not have guessed you were not even a native speaker.
(The post just before you made this one may be an exception, but then that post is an exception to all languages.)
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Thanks a lot! I've been an avid reader as a kid, I use it a lot online, and I also used to travel quite a bit for work, although that probably hindered me more than helping, as, aside from a bunch of visits to the US a looong time ago, I rarely visited English-speaking countries; everywhere else I always had to adapt my English to the local accents and common errors.
The best was visiting other romance-language-speaking countries, where we started off with English, then began incorporating each others' language until every time we ended up with weird mixes that I liked to call Desperanto.
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I use two spaces because I've been typing for a long time, lol
Good eye! I still do it because, to my eyes, it makes it easier to indicate sentence boundaries while skimming the text.
Some people say this is "wrong", and I won't enforce it on anyone, but I do it when I'm writing my own text. Not only do I like how it looks, but it's a habit I've had for close to 30 years. It's not worth fighting that level of muscle memory, especially when we have Find/Replace All! Haha
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I think they're referring to two spaces (as in spacebar) after the periods.
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Duolingo will not teach you b2 in any language. If you want permanent residency isnt it just easier to find people to speak with? Idk what it is in other places but theres a sort of "language cafe" people here in sweden do. You basically just speak to practice the language.
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So am I!
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Yes, that's why I wrote my message the way I wrote it.
People that would learn using apps and books will have a harder time now and will most likely not pass.
