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Language Exchange with some Exchange Students from Belgium Last week, I saw an ad on a wall of my university about an e-tandem event with some exchange students from Belgium to practice French. The event took place today, and three Belgian students took part in it. They are majoring in economics and chose Colombian for their university exchange program because they liked the curriculum of our university. They live in a university town named Louvain-la-Neuve. I was excited about it because it would be the first time that I met native French speakers in Bogota. I wrote some questions and was going to ask them about the cultural differences between Belgians who speak Dutch and those who speak French, the reasons of the political crisis that their country endured between 2010 and 2011, and what was their opinion about those political parties in Europe that want their countries to withdraw from the European Union due to the fact that the European Union is based in their country. The event was aimed at French learners. However, most of the assistants did not know any French and the question and answer session consisted of questions like "Do you like music?", "Do you have a boyfriend", "Do you think that Colombian women are pretty?", "Do you like Colombia?", "Do people in Belgium like to eat chocolate?" (This question was asked, indeed, I'm not kidding). So, I switched from being excited about meeting Belgian students to being annoyed by the assistants. What I thought it was going to be an interesting event ended up being a kindergaten student's question session. On the plus side, I finally met French speakers in Bogota, I only had two native French speakers as teachers when I studied this language, and one of them was half-colombian.
Nov 22, 2014 3:23 AM
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Language Exchange with some Exchange Students from Belgium

Last week, I saw an ad on a wall of my university about an e-tandem event with some exchange students from Belgium to practice French. The event took place today, and three Belgian students took part in it. They are majoring in economics and chose Colombian for their university exchange program because they liked the curriculum of our university. They live in a university town named Louvain-la-Neuve. I was excited about it because it would be the first time that I met native French speakers in Bogota. I wrote some questions and was going to ask them about the cultural differences between Belgians who speak Dutch and those who speak French, the reasons of the political crisis that their country endured between 2010 and 2011, and what was their opinion about those political parties in Europe that want their countries to withdraw from the European Union due to the fact that the European Union is based in their country.
The event was aimed at French learners. However, most of the assistants did not know any French and the question and answer session consisted of questions like "Do you like music?", "Do you have a boyfriend", "Do you think that Colombian women are pretty?", "Do you like Colombia?", "Do people in Belgium like to eat chocolate?" (This question was asked, indeed, I'm not kidding). So, I switched from being excited about meeting Belgian students to being annoyed by the assistants. What I thought it was going to be an interesting event ended up being a kindergaten student's question session. On the plus side, I finally met French speakers in Bogota.

estoy adivinando.  también oración mal formada; se necesita dos oraciones o se necesita una punta y comma

On the plus side, I finally met French speakers in Bogota.

 I only had two native French speakers as teachers when I studied this language <em>(hace muchos años)</em>, and one of them was half-colombian.

November 22, 2014

Language Exchange with some Exchange Students from Belgium

Last week, I saw an ad on a wall of my university about an e-tandem event with some exchange students from Belgium to practice French. The event took place today, and three Belgian students took part in it. They are majoring in economics and chose Colombian for their university exchange program because they liked the curriculum of our university. They live in a university town named Louvain-la-Neuve. I was excited about it because it would be the first time that I met native French speakers in Bogota. I wrote some questions and was going to ask them about the cultural differences between Belgians who speak Dutch and those who speak French, the reasons of the political crisis that their country endured between 2010 and 2011, and what was their opinion about those political parties in Europe that want their countries to withdraw from the European Union due to the fact that the European Union is based in their country.
The event was aimed at French learners. However, most of the assistants did not know any French and the question and answer session consisted of questions like "Do you like music?", "Do you have a boyfriend", "Do you think that Colombian women are pretty?", "Do you like Colombia?", "Do people in Belgium like to eat chocolate?" (This question was asked, indeed, I'm not kidding). So, I switched from being excited about meeting Belgian students to being annoyed by the assistants. What I thought it was going to be an interesting event ended up being a kindergaten student's question session. On the plus side, I finally met French speakers in Bogota, I only had two native French speakers as teachers when I studied this language, and one of them was half-colombian.

November 22, 2014
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