"Je ne suis pas dictionnaire"

This sign hung on a string in the classroom of all of my high school French classes, and if we were really annoying my teacher, she would wear it around her neck and point to it every time we asked her for a word in French.  I'm having the same problem in my classes.  I give an assignment, and then they just ask me a zillion times, "How do you say this and how do you say that?" and the lazy ones don't even say it in English, it's just "Comment dit-on...?" over and over.  And well I'll admit that often it is good to ask a native to get the bon mot for the context because sometimes if you just use the dictionary word it can come out awkward or just flat out wrong.

This  is how in my first year of French I ended up saying "Je suis votre plus grand ventilateur" (I am your biggest ventilator") when I was trying to get out, "I am your biggest fan."

But I don't like knowing either that the website www.wordreference.com could replace me in my classes.

Branuary celebrations are continuing, still lots of fun, although the older I get the earlier I have to turn in...

I am getting my application together to be an assistant in Spain...let's see if I can use my connections to get placed in Almeria.