The mystery of the little russian - Explained

Do you know what a french cook means when you tell him that you need "a little russian" ?

In French, "La petite russe" is the name cooks use to talk about your normal everyday pan...

Our french teachers team just uploaded pictures they made of all the ustensils they use in their kitchen ! This is gonna be super useful for our project ! Thanks !

Une petite russe

(Very) Dynamic vocabulary building with Quizlet

Since a lot of the linguistic aspect of the course will be around memorizing vocabulary, I thought we need some

In Ecuisine, the main aspect of the language course will be around learning vocabulary. There are some really good tools on the Internet to automatizes vocabulary learning (this is something machines are really good at !).

Quizlet is my favourite of these tools. It's an easy to use tool based on the concept of flash cards. You just enter a list of words and their translation or definition and it automatically generates flash cards. See for yourself :

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Étudier ces fiches | Étudier les fiches french

Quick Seminar Debrief

Last week was our second seminar, an important step for all the partners : an opportunity to get together and find out the practical details about our collaboration the final outcome of the project.

The Scottish partner, Anniesland College, and the German partner, Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Ostprignitz-Ruppin GmbH [DE], came to France in Caen for 2 days. Unfortunately, the polish partners from 36°6CC couldn't come but Mosqi.to, the sub-contractor in charge of the design, brought a Polish touch to this meeting.


Many things were agreed on at this meeting :

Learning x (cooking + languages) = Ecuisine

The originality in the Ecuisine lies in the fact that it is not only an online cooking course but that each of the cooking course produced by its 4 partners will offer the trainees from the other partners the opportunity to follow their cooking course thanks to 2 language modules.

The aims are twofold :

1. Create a new distance learning offer in basic cuisine tranferring French approach, available to more partners as support for trainers and apprentices within the partnership and create new tools fully adapted  to non-native speakers preparing work experience abroad
2. Enable trainees to apprehend both basic professional languages, strongly connected to the activities, and the cultural and occupational differences to prepare work experience abroad.

The E-Cuisine project under the spotlight

In its 28th issue (october 2011), the magazine Soleo* features an article on mobility issues inside Europe and the Leonardo da Vinci program, one of its main vector. E-Cuisine is presented as "a linguistic and intercultural tool that is innovative, and adaptable to many countries."**

Transfers and mobility

 In this article you will discover how came the idea of the project : a common goal to encourage mobility and improve employability within students and to work together on a european scale to transfer expertise in creating e-learning tools.

How it all started ?

The "E-Cuisine" project in its European form was born through the need to prepare German beneficiaries for work experience periods in France.

This began as early as 2007 when e-learning tools were presented to German trainers and experts in different seminars in preparation for a mobility scheme in the framework of an Equal initiative for German kitchen apprentices.

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