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Improve your fluency and confidence when conversing in French. Watch French news stories on diverse topics (short segments with transcription), and read brief newspaper articles and blogs about current events in politics, culture, economics, and education. Expand your vocabulary, improve your accuracy, and gain the ability to paraphrase and express different points of view. Attain better comprehension and speaking skills, and learn more about French culture. Acquire greater confidence expressing complex ideas using idioms, a richer vocabulary, and correct syntax. This course is taught entirely in French, and is for students who have completed French IV in this department, or who have achieved the intermediate-mid level on the ACTFL proficiency scale.
