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Before you plunk down a hefty enrollment fee and get ready to return to the classroom, stretch your imagination for a moment. With a bit of gumption, creativity and self-discipline, you can probably design your own personalized language program-and get a crash course in contemporary French society at the same time.
It goes without saying that very best way to learn a language is total immersion. So try and dream up ways to install yourself in the middle of a French family. Do you know people who live in the country? Offer to paint their roof in exchange for meals, lodging and kindly pronunciation corrections. Work as an au pair in a French family, or make a list of your useful skills-bookkeeping, computer layout, driving or woodworking, for example-and set up an unpaid internship in French business or a local non-profit group. The all-time best method, of course is falling in love wit....
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