My introductory courses of French began today. I taught two classes. I am hoping that in a year we'll be reading some simple prose. With that aim in mind, I began by teaching them some simple quotations and the way to use the French-Japanese dictionary. Today's sentences:
Je pense, donc je suis. (Descartes)
La science n'a pas de patrie. (Pasteur)
Toute recherche oblige. (Gide)
My assignment for the next week is to write paragraphs (in Japanese) on the three of them, who they are, what they did. etc.
It's a welcome change for me (to teach French at this level).
