<p>My daughter recently got hired for a temporary job that has a very good chance of turning into a permanent job. One thing that could improve her chance of becoming a regular salaried employee is becoming fluent in French. She took French classes in school from 4th grade until she graduated high school , but has become rusty.
I thought about getting her a program such as Rosetta Stone , but I am guessing that it would be too basic for someone who already has studied it and is somewhat conversational
Any suggestions ? I should also add that I understand that this wouldn’t guarantee her a position with the company , but nothing harmed in improving her skills</p>
<p>Berlitz? Work one-on-one with a private tutor, at the level you need.</p>
<p>Other things she could do are watch French movies and listen to French language songs (public library, Youtube.)</p>
<p>She might be able to trade off French language conversation practice with someone who wants to practice English.</p>
<p>I think tutoring – either ad hoc or through a commercial provider – is the way to go. She doesn’t need tourist fluency, or literature student fluency. She needs fluency in a particular field with a particular range of vocabulary and common interactions. Not that she can’t aspire to a broader-spectrum fluency, but that would take considerably more time than the limited-spectrum fluency she actually needs most.</p>
<p>One of my relatives, who had actually been in French immersion school from grade 3 - grade 8, and had studied French through high school, needed to pass a French competency test to get a job in her field in Montreal. She was having a great deal of difficulty, and failed the test once. Two months of systematic work with a tutor and she aced the retake.</p>
<p>By the way, I’m a huge fan of learning a foreign language by reading books and newspapers, listening to songs, watching movies without subtitles, etc. That’s great, and she should do it. But she will never come remotely close to getting speaking and writing fluency that way.</p>
<p>Is there an Alliance Francais near where your daughter is? They should provide evaluation and classes. Even better, some of their classes will probably be aimed directly at the test your daughter is taking.</p>
<p>I’ll second the tutor recommendation, as I think that improved my daughter’s French greatly.</p>
<p>Thanks all…I looked uo the Alliance Francais and there is one in her city. I called and got some info. Sounds like a good place to start , since they have an online to test to evaluate your current skill level. I didn’t want to have her get stuck with a useless program and waste any money on it.
We have a friend who taught in an immersion program in our school system , but she now lives back in Europe and just had a brand new baby :)</p>
<p>There used to be an audio magazine called Champs Elysees. It’s fantastic, but there was some sort of dispute as to ownership. See if you can buy it here:
[FRENCH</a> Champs-Elysee](<a href=“Web Page Under Construction”>Web Page Under Construction)
My D used it, and found it really helped her become fluent. She’s been in France for 3 weeks now, and she feels completely fluent.</p>