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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a Concordia camp when I was a teen. It was super fun, though looking back, I'm surprised my parents forked over the money. Spendy. Plus airfare to Minnesota.

At that point, I had had two years of public HS French, which means I didn't speak it AT ALL, but could recite lots of verb conjugations. Many of the other kids there had been studying it for longer, or came from French-speaking homes, but there were also kids who were having their first experience with the language and starting from zero. I can say that I left with a better comfort level in speaking than I had going in. Can't say that it helped my academic French at all. I went on to do a high school exchange year in France and became (and remain) fluent. Perhaps two weeks in the woods of Minnesota helped, who knows.

Anyway, it was (20 years ago) a great traditional summer camp experience, with canoeing and hiking and making things with lanyards and swimming in the lake and sneaking away from the bonfire to make out behind a tree. Plus French. Oh, and lots of music. It seemed like a lot of the professional counselors (they had one group of counselors who were there all summer every summer and sort of ran the place, and then older teens who came and went and had "junior" authority) were amateur musicians. That might have been specific to the staff then and there, though. [/quote]

Thanks for the feedback.  My DD also is on her 2nd yr of HS French and is really struggling.  Like you, she knows lots of vocab and can conjugate verbs, but is having a hard time "putting it all together".   Wonder if I should give her another year.[/quote]

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