Pre- First French Class and Post

Talk about feeling bad before the first day of school. Not me.

Jk jk

What I meant to say is that every quarter I get nervous. Very Nervous. Yes, I meant it with a capital letter.

However, these fears are of course only momentary and after about a week, things settle down.

Before I take my first French class, I wanted to write down some goals and how I feel coming into this.

I want to document my efforts with learning French much more intensively compared to how I documented my Japanese learning journey. I learned a lot about how I learn languages best when I was studying Japanese so hopefully I can use some of those skills with learning French hoho.

Anyway, this isn't really anything; this is more of a brain dump. So, I'll update later. Good luck future me.

So I just finished my first class!

Yay!

Well, to be honest it was more about going over Cengage which is the online program we're gonna use for class. However, I think I appreciate going over all this technology stuff because it's definitely hard for me to adjust.

I'm excited for future blog posts!

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