French courses

I for one am planning on taking at least the French Language and Society 1 (post-A level or equivalent) course as an outside option. I'll need to think about how far I want to study the language (and how I could put it to use) to decide whether I'll take more of them. Right now my French doesn't feel extremely strong but I got a good grade from the Finnish equivalent to A-levels so I suppose the skills are somewhere in there still. I'm also thinking about starting another language from scratch now that I'm still young. But then again, the choice of subject to study at university was a choice between languages and sociology for me. Needless to say which one I chose...

Not much enlightening here, sorry, but I just thought I'd share my situation.

My choice is between French 01 or some politics. I think French would be most useful to me because to move to Canada one of you has to prove proficiency in French too, and as Matty doesn't have any intention of learning I might as well. I'd quite like to learn too, just for personal reasons. If you are good at French i'd recommend you do it, it'd be an easy pass.

As I'm sure you know, one does not need to know French in order to be able to live in Canada. The majority of Canada is Anglo-Saxon. And even in the French area not only are almost all signs etc in both French and English but almost all French-Canadians speak fluent English.

Yes but you get more immigration points if you know French, so stand a better chance of your application being approved.

Canada is the liberal capital of the world. It lets in fuzzy wuzzies from mumbo jumbo lands all the time – I doubt that it’ll be quick to reject you just because you’re not fluent in frog, even if you are from Essex.

What is it with internet forums? People always manage to make threads at least somewhat hostile whatever the original topic was. Oh well, I guess that's just general knowledge.

As for me and French, I suppose I want to learn it more out of general interest than anything else, and I want to be able to read French literature in its original language. I am interested in spending some time in France some day but I'll have to see, right now I have enough on my mind about coming to England, so first things first. Longer term plans can wait.

I would love to read French newspapers and books instead of the translations, and it is a wish of mine to be able to switch between languages whenever I feel like it. Thanks for coming back to the topic!

almost all French-Canadians speak fluent English.

I have this funny feeling when I arrive at the LSE (grades permitting) virtually everyones going to have an excellent command of 2+ languages and make monolingual me feel totally inept, speaking as a person who only managed to scrape a C in foundation GCSE German.