Lost en France

Well, I've just completed ' Walk and learn French #Beginner #2' on Youtube. This lesson was two hours long and, like the first, I found it both easy to follow and useful. Victor, the presenter, perhaps laboured some points a little  longer than I needed - but I did reflect that this boded well for when things got trickier.  As I watched there were just a couple of sections where it felt he was developing a topic which he had  not  introduced elsewhere. This led me to wonder whether this video was built in a modular fashion. Nothing wrong with that even if that is the case - but see below. Having completed the second video my appetite for the third was well and truly  whetted. But where was it..? No sign on YouTube, nor from a more general Google search, nor at French4me.net . The latter is the site with paid for content provided by Vincent. I'm guessing he posts free 'tasters' on YouTube and then hopes you'll buy the paid for content - not an unreasonabl...

Sally and I have very limited French - normally just enough to make ourselves understood if the message is fairly simple - but trying to understand what is said to us is a challenge. We're hoping that having the house in France will see our French improve, but we also want to give it a kick-start with a bit of study. We've missed the opportunity to sign-up for the current term of night-classes and, besides, we'd ideally like to attend together and with me working away most of the week our options would be very limited. We do have a Hugo CD/Book 'Learn French in 3 Months' course we bought several years ago and have been studying that over the past few weekends. Weeks 1 and 2 went well but we struggled with Week 3, it took us 3-weeks to get through that alone. Sally has also been talking of taking a look at Babbel. Yesterday I was Googling 'French courses', or some such term, and came across 'Walk and Learn French' on Youtube. Less...