It's true that a positive attitude and a hospitable ambience that a teacher creates and the students keep up at the French lesson are not empty words.We've breathed life into them: an emotional bond with the group and the peace of mind is the key to self-fulfilment here.
Just as Math and Music boost our brain power, the French language expands possibilities of our mind as well as it fosters a feeling of beauty, the beauty that adds colours to our life and speech:
femme fatale,
potpourri,
carte blanche,
tête à tête,
déjà vu,
prêt-à-porter,
chic,
couture
silhouette,
joie de vivre ,
R.S.V.P -
all these words have put their two pennies in the piggy-bank not only of the Russian but also the English language.
They also remind us of the time
when French tutors and preceptors
had been planting love for art and learning in the nest of gentlefolk
in the epoque of Enlightment,
the same way that had been doing centuries ago - a genious of the Russian
literature and language -
Alexander Poushkin.