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Feb 2018
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512. My Experiences of (not) Learning Fr...

Luke Thompson
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Talking more about my experiences as a student of French, this time reading from notes I took during my French lessons (when I should have been focusing on the class!) and some considerations about learning a language in a classroom and learning on your own. Notes & transcript available.

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