Learn Tech with Ruth

Global Collaboration Week is upon us, with a lot of cool sessions to attend. We are hosting French Connect and are hoping for a great turnout. My French and German classes are coming along great now and are really learning a lot of speaking skills. I am very proud of our progress. On Friday we did the first chapter of Le Petit Prince and read Der Struwwelpeter, both just awesome material for beginning readers. I am very much looking forward to attending sessions with my students this week, especially the ones hosted by my Brazilian friend Athalo Carrao. He's pretty much taken over Thursday with sessions all day long. Global Sing Along? Who would miss that? Here's the registration information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-collaboration-week-2018-registration-49532136955

Last week I went to LangFest in Montreal. This was certainly an exciting experience for me as a language teacher. It was good to share one's doubts and limitations in the journey of language acquisition. I met some famous language experts there who really changed my outlook on language learning. We need to stop trying to be so perfect. With my considerable knowledge of Spanish I never really had to face that. But now that I am doing French I see my limitations daily and realize how far a journey I am still having to go before feeling comfortable. There are questions that come up I cannot answer in the spur of the moment. What is a language teacher to do? Send them to Google Translate? The best strategy is to learn, learn, learn on my part by watching incessant Netflix movies. This surely worked for me for learning Spanish in the past. Well, one month into my French and German classes I do have a very happy feeling about this school year. Three of the four classes are a pure joy to