User talk:Yottie

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 19:26, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Student contributions to French Communes
I'm not sure who I tell, but I'm a new editor and I teach English to adults here in the Orne. Basse Normandy (Argentan). I am interested in creating useful web pages about the historic countryside of France. I decided that the communes were the easiest way to go about it and I'm currently volunteering with local high school students to write Simple English articles on the communes in the area. We have just started. I don't have any questions at the moment but I may eventually. I just glad to know that someone out there is interested in a related subject.Mlane (talk) 20:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Please do ask if you have any questions. I'd do my best to help. I've lived in the neighbouring département of Mayenne for the last 15 years, so I'm quite excited by this project of yours - it will be good to see articles of places I know expanded! Yottie (talk) 23:48, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yottie, I've just come from class with 9 students. I had them start by creating accounts and contributing one definition among the following list of faux amis: intoxication,location,mutation, occasion, perception,prevention, realization and vacation.


 * They had no trouble finding definitions and most of them simply copied and pasted. I made them simplify the language, which seemed more difficult(expl. turning "favorable" into "good"). As you know many vrais amis in French are complex words in English with multiple syllables, so it was hard for them to realize big words may be hard for others. You can check their definitions and give me any advice. I did not see all their edits before they saved them.thanks in advance Mlane (talk) 14:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Meta talk page
Please check your Meta talk page WhisperToMe (talk) 05:11, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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