I passed French!

I passed my Delf A2 exam with flying colours. Woohoo!!!

Thanks to all the intensive French lessons I had with classmate HT. There we were, hoping to just pass everything by 50%… and I exceeded my own hopes and expectations by a mile. Had nearly full marks for written comprehension and oral comprehension.

This is a great relief. I have now officially cleared INSEAD’s third language requirement for graduation.

If you’re in Singapore and are also thinking of learning French as your third language, you may only know of Alliance Francaise. However if you have limited time, you may prefer a much more flexible course which focuses on particular areas you’d like to improve. Also, as you need to pass an exam, you may prefer getting more attention from the teacher (individual or small groups of 2-3).

As a former student at Alliance Francaise I felt the classes were too big for the professor to have time to fix your pronunciation individually. Then, if you want individual tuition at Alliance Francaise it is quite expensive.

So instead, I strongly recommend another school called French Faster, which has more personal attention at a more reasonable price. You’re made to understand why things are done in a certain way and not just because “that’s French, that’s how it is”, which is more the attitude I got from my professors at AF. This is just my personal take; I prefer to understand things then remember them, rather than just memorising for the sake of memorising.

Now, I need to keep practising my French so I can speak with the locals when I’m over at Fonty… and for all those visits to Paris ;-)