This was the first time we had stayed In one place for an extended period of time. It had all kinds of advantages. To begin with, four days a week we walked from our hotel, across the centre of Aix en Provence to our school school, where we learned in a full French immersion situation to teach our ears to hear and understand what we heard. That, it is quite true, was a bit of a shock. But, clearly it worked. While at the beginning, much of what was going on sailed past my understanding, toward the end, very little did. Sure, the ... (more)