Category Archives: adult learners

Complex?… Yes… Complicated?… No!…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: April 5, 2009

French is not the easiest language to learn… it is something we all agree on!… Yet… is there a language that is easy to learn?… I doubt it! Each language works differently and, for that mere reason, learning any foreign languages is a difficult task. Of course, ideally, we should learn languages when we are [...]

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My New Virtual Classroom… So Cool!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: March 2, 2009

I am always looking for anything that might improve the way I work with my trainees… At the beginning of 2009, thanks to the 50 day public transit strike in Ottawa, I launched my online training service for public servants or future public servants living outside the National Capital. It did not even take 24 hours [...]

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A Weird Experience…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: February 25, 2009

I think I have been neglecting that blog of mine lately… or maybe not! I wanted to write this post last night, but my high speed Internet provider encountered technical problems in my area… Actually it crashed ten minutes before I was supposed to get online with Joyce in Moncton. Thanks to our telephone plans, [...]

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