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There's a Mooc starting in december by the INRIA ( French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation )

https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41010+sessio...

Oddly, I'm more fascinated that I'll be able to learn French reading through the materials of that course. Perhaps Smalltalk will follow on the side :)

You're probably joking, but fwiw I'm 7 weeks into Duolingo's French lessons right now and found most of this course page to be easily readable without reference to the English. It's much easier than Le Petit Prince, a children's book for which I still need to hit the dictionary a lot.

No, not joking. I have some French courses under my belt from my childhood, but I never got very fluent with it because I never had any use for it. Having an actual need to use the language would be great.

Great! I'd be tempted too if I hadn't done enough Smalltalk to feel comfy already. (I'll have to find other stuff in French. Maybe Laplace on probability? Or more likely Tin-tin...)

The course is bilingual.

I could never get the posted English vids to work

Beat me to posting it. :)

Edit: Actually, the course starts on October 16.

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