As from January 28th 2003 the group will meet at
various venues
Tuesday 10.00 am to 12.00 noon
Learn French in France
I am a u3a member at Bath and for some years have been using a French Village organisation for a unique language course . It is reciprocal, in that English speakers are matched by a similar number of French speakers working together, and having fun.
I have met a number of other u3a members on these courses and I feel they need wider recognition. The parent organisation, Renouveau, is a charity and can not afford to advertise widely so some of organised a web site, Friends of renouveau, if you like .Here is a link to that site and if you can,in any way distribute this link we would be very grateful.
(Have a look and you`ll see what I mean. I have ,of course, no financial or there link with Renouveau other than as a member)
10th Anniversary Pageant 2005
*Click the photograph above to access a photo album of the
10th Anniversary Pageant
Thanks to the French group for a wonderful performance but shame on some of us who needed their translator.
Twinning between Caldicot and Morieres May 2005On Wednesday 5th May 2005 a group of people led by Caldicot Mayor Ron Stewart travelled to Morières near Avignon in France to witness the signing of the twinning between Caldicot and Morières.
There was representation from The Town Council, Caldicot Comprehensive School, Caldicot Chamber Commerce and of our twenty nine representatives, seven were from Caldicot & District U3A. On arrival at Morières we were overwhelmed at the warm reception with Welsh flags and bunting everywhere. The local shops not to be outdone displaying their wares in Welsh.
*please click the photograph below to access a photo album of the twinning event*
The Mayor of Morières Joël Granier signing the twinning document.
We would like to thank everyone for the hospitality and friendship shown to us.
Terry Williams
*please "click" the imagicmultimedia.com logo above to access a video of the Caldicot and Morières twinning celebrations held in Wales 28th April to 3rd May 2006:
Interesting websitesLanguage
www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages An important web site with material in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Welsh. Frequently up-dated and a useful supplement to the BBC text-books.www.quid.fr Is useful back ground information on all things French.
www.bonjour.org.uk An amusing French language site to enliven.
On the recent Gardening group trip to the Loire Valley our members had ample opportunity to try out their French on local shopkeepers.
In this photograph our U3A French convenor, Terry Williams takes the lead. His wife Tresna, Vanda and Brian seem somewhat amused at their own efforts to speak the language.
We are a small group who meet every Tuesday morning at the home of one of our members.
We follow a text book "French for Starters", and every other week we compose a story in French of something that happened during that period.
It is then discussed and corrected by the members.
The emphasis is on an informal approach to learning French."Tous le monde est bienvenue a notre petit group"
Everyone is welcome to our little group.
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