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French professor\u00a0Julie Pomerleau leads a ‘Caf\u00e9 francophone’ event by guiding attendees through a French conversation in Trevor Colbourn Hall on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rachel Jones<\/p>\n
The back-and-forth of French chatter could be heard throughout Room\u00a0358B in Trevor Colbourn Hall\u00a0as students attended\u00a0“Caf\u00e9 francophone” on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
French Coordinator and Senior Instructor Julie Pomerleau\u00a0has hosted Caf\u00e9 francophone for over 10 years, she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pomerleau said she\u00a0realized the need for out-of-class conversational French when her students expressed their ability to have hypertechnical conversations in\u00a0French but\u00a0lacked\u00a0day-to-day vocabulary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pomerleau\u2019s solution to this issue was to create\u00a0an informal environment where students could talk about things like books and music, she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no pressure,\u201d Pomerleau said.\u00a0\u201cThen, maybe\u00a0it\u2019ll\u00a0help to\u00a0actually make\u00a0them more fluent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sierra Nichols,\u00a0senior\u00a0political science major, works her way through a French game during\u00a0the ‘Caf\u00e9 francophone’ event at Trevor Colbourn Hall on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Rachel Jones<\/p>\n
Sierra Nichols, senior political science major with a minor in environmental studies, has a\u00a0Francophone Studies Certificate. Nichols said she pursues learning\u00a0French to be closer to her Haitian family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI speak [French] with my grandma,\u201d Nichols said. \u201cMy aunt owns a French school, so\u00a0they help me a lot to learn the language. But I am hoping to learn a lot more\u00a0Creole, since\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0my grandma\u2019s\u00a0first language.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nichols said she has\u00a0benefited\u00a0from the casual nature of Caf\u00e9 francophone in further developing her French.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a good way to learn more\u00a0and not feel\u00a0the pressure of quizzes or homework,\u201d Nichols said. \u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0met a lot of new people that I can communicate with outside of class. I feel like the\u00a0biggest part of learning French is\u00a0to have someone\u00a0to talk to.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nichols\u2019 confidence\u00a0in her French-speaking abilities has grown, she said, continuing that her confidence in traveling\u00a0or living abroad will\u00a0be bolstered by her experience at the in-person, conversational gathering.\u00a0Nichols said she recommends\u00a0attending Caf\u00e9 francophone to those looking to improve their French language skills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t be nervous,\u201d Nichols said. \u201cEveryone here\u00a0is\u00a0at different learning levels.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French professor\u00a0Julie Pomerleau leads a ‘Caf\u00e9 francophone’ event by guiding attendees through a French conversation in Trevor Colbourn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1209,1210,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-168397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-culture","tag-life","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}