Monthly Archives: November 2008

More Hermetically Sealed Than Ever!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: November 19, 2008

Back in June, I had written a post on civil servants’ rights to access information regarding their written expression tests. I never understood why candidates who fail to obtain their required language level cannot have a look at their tests, so they could target their weaknesses, work on them and, the next time they would be [...]

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Les Mots composés en français… ce n’est pas toujours évident!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: November 17, 2008

Rules regarding the mots composés in French are often tough to remember… Many people need to refer to a dictionary because, most of the time, they do not know if there are hyphens or not! Without mentioning difficulties encountered when we want to turn a singular mot composé into plural… Well, one rule at a time [...]

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The #3 Fear Factor

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: November 15, 2008

Five months ago, I had started a series on fear factors that might influence adults’ learning. Then a series of events came up and I did not write any other posts on that topic. This past week, I have been the witness of one out of several fear factors and I decided to talk about [...]

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