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Persistence Pays Off

by Susan Zutautas on July 8, 2019

This weeks challenge is “Language”

 

 

French was not a favorite subject of Katie’s and she hated the homework that went with the class.

She’d bring home her homework and her mother would always insist on helping her with French as she was failing the class. Her mother would make her write out un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, and so on until she’d hit one hundred. Katie did this for a month hating her mother for making her do this.

Then there was practicing the language itself. Not only did Katie have to write out sentences, but she also had to memorize them and translate them into English.

At the end of the school year, Katie received an award in French for “Most Improved French Student”. Everything her mother made her do, paid off in the end with persistence.

 

© Susan Zutautas 2019

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. calmkate #

    lol this message, persistent effort pays off every time in anything we do 🙂

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  2. V.J. Knutson #

    As a former French teacher, I love this on many levels, lol. Practice does help! Thanks!

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    July 8, 2019
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