1. I enjoyed first quarter very much, mostly because the first part of it was review from
French 1. Since I took French 1 freshman year, I didn’t remember much from it so that helped me a
lot. After reviewing and getting back on track, I really started to improve in my abilities to
speak the language and memorizing the vocabulary. The only thing I didn’t like was writing the
french word 5 times on extra credit flashcards. Although I have to say even though they take a
lot of work and energy, they do help me memorize the words better. I believe that I did well on the
vocabulary quizzes and the tests, because it was easy for me to remember the meanings of the
words and the rules of french grammar. On the other hand I have not mastered the speaking
questions just yet, because for some reason when I study them and look over them a hundred
times, they just don’t stick in my brain.
I do plan to be master of the speaking questions come the end of the second level of
French. Of course since I am taking French 3 for my junior year, I would like to sound like I know
what I am doing. I mentioned that I am good at french grammar but some of it takes longer to
register in my mind. For example, the rule of subjects inside the boot when accents change to the
other direction. To me, french grammar just has too many rules to remember, so it makes the
course a little bit more challenging. One last area of improvement for me is to become better at
pronunciation, because when I listen to myself after I’ve recorded I sound like an amateur. I would
love to at least become a tad bit better at that.
When it comes to speaking, I always thought that I was horrible at it, until I was
informed that my teacher thought other wise. When she told me that my speaking was closer to
a 4, which is pretty good, my spirits were lifted. It’s really good to know that you’re actually
good at something that you thought you weren’t. But even though she thinks that, I still am going
to try my hardest to be the best I can be.
Recording many different dialogues with our various partners has helped me extremely
when it comes to sounding better since the very first baseline recording we did. Along with that
receiving vocabulary packets where we try to quiz ourselves and see if we know the meanings or
not, also is a booster when it comes to learning. One last helpful strategy is having a blog so that
I can go back and look over stuff that I accomplished long ago. It helps me refresh whenever I go
back to visit it.
I have definitely improved in speaking since I first entered the course a year ago and
slowly getting better. I have thoroughly discussed my strengths and weaknesses. For the next 9
weeks, I will try to do the extra credit flashcards more, because right now I’ve only done like 3

2. sets of them. Also I’m going to try to listen back at my old recordings and see how I can do them
better.