Toulouse

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Visit of Toulouse to study French. Impressions of the city, called la ville rose.

Original post is here: eklausmeier.goip.de

I visited Toulouse, la ville rose, from 07-Sep to 21-Sep-2024. Again to better my French language skills. Toulouse is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille, and Lyon.

I attended Langue Onze. This language school offers a separate Android app KLF, which shows the schedule for the week. They also use Google classroom, which you can find here: https://classroom.google.com/. Google classroom shows participants in the school, also stores various media used in class. For example, various PDFs, images, chats, etc. The school is located in the center of Toulouse.

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Parks and places: Many places offer seats to take a rest, or there are a couple of restaurants and cafes around. Overall, Toulouse seems young and vibrant. That is not surprising: Toulouse has ca. 500,000 inhabitants. Of these roughly 140,000 are students.

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Typical streets: Some are very nice, some are more functional. You will see quite a lot of scooters, and bicycles. To my own surprise, you will also see quite a number of e-bikes.

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Churches and monuments.

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School and universities.

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Waterways: river and canal. They make excellent walks.

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The airport and train station. There is a direct bus connection from the airport to the train station. This costs 9 EUR per ride. There are some stops in between, but overall the travel time is 40 minutes.

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