French Interference

I love to listen to audio books while walking 10000 steps a day...thank you Becky for Audible.

My favorites are W.E.B Griffin books, partly because they are super engaging and partly because they are long. It takes a long time to walk that far and short books just don't hold up. Recently I have been making my way through the clandestine operations series. A great deal of German is spoken therein and I have become fascinated by the words and names. I found myself wanting to learn some German.

No reason. Just because.

Enter Duolingo.

Also enter French interference.

I studied five years of the French language in high school and college, the first two under a tiny Moroccan martinet who did not take no for an answer. Her red hair matched her temper. I don't remember a lot of French by I can still recite the dialogs she drilled into our brains. Dis donc, ou est la biblioteque? C'est tout droit, tu y vas tout de suite?

Anyhow, I am forever typing est when it should be ist, thus losing all my hearts and having to end the lessons.

Who would have thought? Not me apparently.