Of course, the flipside to having such a wealth of topics to approach and investigate is option paralysis: where do you even start?
For the historical and cultural aspects, I'm going to try to follow six simple milestones in the French timeline:
- The Norman Conquest
- The Hundred Years' War
- The French Revolution
- Napoleonic Era
- World Wars I and II
- Modern Day France
These won't necessarily be spaced evenly apart, and the periods between them won't be addressed equally, but we will at least have a sense of marching through time and making progress. There will also be plenty of digressions and backtracking, because ultimately this is my year with France and you're along for the ride, and part of this blog's goal is also to figure out the how of spending one year on a topic, so expect a bit of turbulence now and then.
The language lessons will of course proceed from the basics to the advanced, and I'm really interested in trying out some of the many podcasts, YouTube videos, and new Web 2.0-y sites on language learning.
Geography will be delivered travelogue style, and we'll more or less try to intertwine as many geography lessons with the history and culture lessons we're goig through.
Everything else will come as it will. Enjoy!
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