Принимая уроки русского языка во Франции
As I signed up for another couple of years at the university (Antiquity History Master Degree), I wanted to take the russian class for beginners, as I saw it was mentionned amongst the available languages. Not so easy.
When I gave my file to the secretary, she looked surprised "oh but uh... why did you choose russian ?". I didn't answered and she realized it was quite an irrelevant question.
- "But uh do you have the required level in english ?"
- "Yes I have the CLES2 certificate"
- "Oh uh very good... But I'm not sure it is available for your Master"
- "Why that, I saw it was open to all students on the 40-pages information notice that was given with the registration file ?"
- "But I have to check. *5 minutes of computer typing* *looks surprised* Oh, you're right, you can take this class. Well, I guess it's ok."
- "Also I wanted to know when the class begins and where it is located in the university, because I can't find any info on it"
- "uh really I'm not sure... But you should try the 13 building, where all the small tongues are gathered. *laughs* There must be very few students there."
Later in the day I had a meeting with a teacher that had to validate my file :
*rises his eyesbrows* "oh and you make russian... (surprised/curious tone) Interesting, interesting..."
And then I started a recon mission in an attempt to locate the russian departement. Well, there was a "13" building. It was in an awful condition, and it was a complete maze inside (german, japanese, portugese, polish, italian, arabic, english, chinese...) I finally found the "slavic tongues" sub-section. There was nobody there. I found a "RUSSIAN" information panel, maybe 3x2 meters. It was completely empty. :blink:
At this point I was tired and pretty fed up. So I took the car, went back home, and easily found the russian departement website on Internet. Of course, they are now located in the building 31, not 13 ! :facepalm:
So - if the information I've got there is correct - I should get my first class Monday morning.
Пожелайте мне удачи ! :lol:
As I signed up for another couple of years at the university (Antiquity History Master Degree), I wanted to take the russian class for beginners, as I saw it was mentionned amongst the available languages. Not so easy.
When I gave my file to the secretary, she looked surprised "oh but uh... why did you choose russian ?". I didn't answered and she realized it was quite an irrelevant question.
- "But uh do you have the required level in english ?"
- "Yes I have the CLES2 certificate"
- "Oh uh very good... But I'm not sure it is available for your Master"
- "Why that, I saw it was open to all students on the 40-pages information notice that was given with the registration file ?"
- "But I have to check. *5 minutes of computer typing* *looks surprised* Oh, you're right, you can take this class. Well, I guess it's ok."
- "Also I wanted to know when the class begins and where it is located in the university, because I can't find any info on it"
- "uh really I'm not sure... But you should try the 13 building, where all the small tongues are gathered. *laughs* There must be very few students there."
Later in the day I had a meeting with a teacher that had to validate my file :
*rises his eyesbrows* "oh and you make russian... (surprised/curious tone) Interesting, interesting..."
And then I started a recon mission in an attempt to locate the russian departement. Well, there was a "13" building. It was in an awful condition, and it was a complete maze inside (german, japanese, portugese, polish, italian, arabic, english, chinese...) I finally found the "slavic tongues" sub-section. There was nobody there. I found a "RUSSIAN" information panel, maybe 3x2 meters. It was completely empty. :blink:
At this point I was tired and pretty fed up. So I took the car, went back home, and easily found the russian departement website on Internet. Of course, they are now located in the building 31, not 13 ! :facepalm:
So - if the information I've got there is correct - I should get my first class Monday morning.
Пожелайте мне удачи ! :lol:
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