Panjab University alumni meet to test French skills

CHANDIGARH: Alumni meets are all about nostalgia, but this one will end up being a 'learning' experience. It will be a special meet for the alumnus of Panjab University's French department with students hosting a French singing and cooking competition to entertain their guests on Saturday. To show their skills, the department students will be competing among each other, while the old students too would be certainly tempted to refresh their lessons in the language. Dr Cecilia Antony, chairperson, department of French and Francophone studies at PU, said they decided to make the alumni meet a memorable one and the best way to do so was to refresh old students' memory with French. Enthusiastic student have already started practising French songs and learning dishes, though both the activities are not part of their curriculum. Sharing their views about participating in the singing and cooking competition, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatia, a student of Rosetta Stone Greek the department, said initially it was tough to sing in French but she practised with music playing in the background. ''Earlier I had problem in pronunciation while singing, however, now I have realized that this is a better way to learn a language,'' she added. Atika, a MA student in the department, who is one of the eight students participating in the competition, said she is exciting singing in a foreign language. ''It feels good singing in French and I would certainly like to give a performance at other functions as well,'' she added. The department has devised parameters on the basis of which students participating in the singing competition will be judged. ''Students will be judged on the basis of their voice, pronunciation and appearance before the audience by two French scientists,'' the chairperson added. In the cookery competition, over fourteen students will be cooking food at their home and then serve it to gusts in the department. Dr Antony said these students would be judged on the basis of taste, complexity in preparing the dish and also presentation. Didar, a competitor in the cooking category, who has specially learnt making a French dish Pule Diabla, explored many other aspects of French culture while ging through recipe books.

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