French Philosophy for beginners… c’est possible!
Let’s read & converse together en français A few days ago I wrote a blog post explaining that I started this amazing online French book club adventure a year ago, for both beginners and advanced, and surprisingly (I was more than skeptical about the whole French book club thing). Group)) it was wonderful! To celebrate this first anniversary I decided to launch something new and challenging for my middle group: a philosophy club... it sold out in 3 days! At first it seemed a bit overkill for my beginner group, I think mostly because I had my own textbooks and college papers in mind, but then I found a children's philosophy book that somehow manages to engage with various philosophical concepts. Such as freedom, love, time, respect, etc. in a simple and accessible way since it is aimed at French teenagers. So I shared this ambitious idea with my students and not only did they all seem excited about the opportunity, but they added their own contributions like: Could we fin...