It has rained all day again today. We went out for breakfast and a short walk around the old town since it was not raining too hard. We spent the rest of the day doing our homework and studying. It truly feels like we are in school again and have a big test tomorrow.
Our course is focusing us on verbs and pronouns and the various placement of participles, pronouns and negatives. The French love pronouns, and we are suppose to switch to a pronoun immediately after one use of the noun. We have determined that the favorite sentence of our teacher would be about three lines long with only pronouns, verbs and negatives using all the tenses.
We also are trying to learn which verbs use être and which use avoir for the passé composé. The passé composé of être uses avoir, e.g. j'ai été. In case you wanted to know. In our class our teacher uses the story of La Petite Maison de Pierre to help us learn most of the verbs that use être. Here are two versions of the story from the internet.
Tomorrow the rain is suppose to stop mid-day with sun forecast for the next week or more. We are hoping the forecast is correct.
More later,
Jane and the Unabashed Liberal
Rats. I wrote a long comment on here yesterday but due to my obvious negligence, it's not here now.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm reading about your adventures and loving every post. I hope Husbandman and I can do something like this some day. We loved your use of the phrase "embarrassing and exhausting" a few posts ago. That really sums up our first months here in Israel. Now we're used to being embarrassed, so it's not as exhausting.