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10th May 2010À GrenobleHello Internet, I would have told you this sooner but I am away. I've had very strong feelings about this trip, and I knew I would and I wanted to record my state of mind throughout the course of planning and then doing my little InterRail trip. Right now I'm in Grenoble. I wish I could post pictures but I don't think I can; the surrounding mountains are amazing. Grenoble's called the 'capital of the Alps' in France, and rightly so. I hope tomorrow is better, but today the city is infested with thunderstorms, with huge bolts of lightning reaching down from ...
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24th June 2009My Feelings About Learning FrenchNOTE: FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN TIPS AND ADVICE ABOUT ADVANCED HIGHER FRENCH, CLICK HERE. My relationship with French has been somewhat mixed. When I started secondary school, my only experience learning foreign languages was taking lessons in German the year before. At my new school, the only viable language was French, and so for the next 4 years I worked my way through it - always doing well, memorising passages to write or speak, and learning conjugations when needed, but I never really got interested in the subject. When I was 16, it was time to ...
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18th March 2009Advanced Higher French Speaking ExamNOTE: FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN TIPS AND ADVICE ABOUT ADVANCED HIGHER FRENCH, CLICK HERE. It's a date that I've been thinking about for a long time - and now it's over: the day of my Advanced Higher French speaking exam. Ever since I chose to take Advanced Higher French (over a year ago now), I knew that one of these days I was going to have to sit in front of an external examiner, and talk. In French. For 20 long, stressful minutes. Well, it turned out to be not so bad after all. My examiner was a native French speaker who ...
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25th January 2009French Speaking & PrelimsNOTE: FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN TIPS AND ADVICE ABOUT ADVANCED HIGHER FRENCH, CLICK HERE. I'm doing my 6th year prelims over the next two weeks, so I am officially on study leave. I was hoping that it was going to turn into a bit of a holiday with a few exams dotted throughout. Sadly, that's not going to be the case. Things have been piling up. I have to go in for a morning to discuss my Computing project with my teacher. I have to go in tomorrow to work on my speaking prelim which I will be doing on the ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
