From around the middle, to the end of last year, I posted quite extensively about the choice to teach French rather than Spanish at primary school. I won’t go back over the reasons, as they are there to read, but the fact remains, no matter what argument anyone puts forward in favour of teaching a language other than French, most schools will opt to teach French regardless.

Therefore, realistically, I know I should be posting about ways in which learning French can be made easier, especially for non-linguists. Fortunately, modern technology can offer us a far more pleasurable and rewarding experience than we might have had at school in an intimidating chalk & talk environment.

I have been looking at several courses, and I think I have found one that can really help non-linguists learn French, or improve their existing knowledge the easiest way possible. The real benefit from this course is that it mkes use of multiple learning modalities allowing for many more learning opportunities than might otherwise be available in the traditional language classroom, or with text-book and tape courses. It is the best example of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) in use that I have seen so far. You can find out more at the Rocket Languages website, which also offers similar courses in Spanish, German and Japanese.