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I Just DON’T Get It!!!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: April 17, 2009

Okay… maybe I am a bit (a lot) frustrated these days!… Do not get me wrong though! I really do love what I do… Preparing all these people for their SLE tests is, I admit, often frustrating yet I know I am doing something useful for them. Without me, they would be left on their [...]

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Deux Poids… Deux Mesures!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: April 11, 2009

I just finished watching a story on “Grid Lock”…  looking at traffic jams in major cities around the world certainly makes me appreciate my new online training business… Of course, traffic in Ottawa is nothing compared to other places yet all we need is a couple of centimetres of snow to see chaos on Highway 417… Perhaps [...]

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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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