2025-03-20
14 分钟Bonjour. Today I want to talk about how to improve your French.
This is addressed primarily to people who already have at least an intermediate level in French and would like to improve.
And we all know that there is that long period when we sort of migrate from B1 to B2,
where we're facing the headwinds and we're not advancing as quickly as we could.
And the reason why I want to talk about improving French is because Canada has a new prime minister,
Mark Carney, who is an Anglophone.
And in Canada, of course, prime ministers have to be able to speak both official languages,
as do most federal politicians in a leadership position.
And so I want to look at Mark Carney's French and some of the suggestions that I would give Mark Carney,
if I were in a position to, you know, advise him on his French.
And I think this might be applicable to a lot of French, you know, non-native speakers.
First of all, I say that Mark Carney's French, in my opinion, is very good.
It's very pleasant to listen to.
And that should be the first goal.
He makes mistakes with gender.
He makes a lot of mistakes, but it's pleasing.
He's got a nice cadence in his French.
And it's French that he learned.
Apparently, he learned it while he was at Harvard.
He had to speak French as a governor of the Bank of Canada.