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I Love Italian Food… Wine… AND…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: March 24, 2009

Before I move on with today’s topic, I want to let you know that I got some news from Joyce in Moncton this afternoon… she passed her required levels in both reading comprehension and written expression with a very high C… she actually missed the E (exemption) only by 3 points! Useless to mention that, [...]

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Methods of Learning French…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: March 13, 2009

Today calls for celebration!… I wrote 100 posts (including this one) over the last six months!… Sometimes I wonder where I did find the time to actually achieve that! Well… apparently I did because the figures are right before my very eyes. Though I wonder if I had been that prolific without my students’ stories [...]

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Sometimes I Seriously do Wonder…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: February 15, 2009

This morning, when I turned on my computer, my Sympatico MSN home page had an article by Marc Saltzman featured at the top and… I could not resist the temptation of clicking on the title and reading it. It was an interview with Stuart Ackerman, the Toronto-based founder, writer and host for Tutorgiant (I think [...]

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