Posted on 09/27/2018 6:36:00 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
J’ai besoin d’une bouteille de vin.
The French stole most of the Vowels from the Slavs.
Lock them up....
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“It’s like those French have a different word for everything.” - Steve Martin
Funny, but English has the largest lexicon, mostly because there is no penalty for stealing nor for spontaneous generation...
Yep! The first time I went to France, I was amazed at how all the little French kids knew how to speak it, but I was still struggling after 3 years of French in high school. /s
I will agree with the article on one thing, that jargon is often used by teachers to bamboozle people into thinking that they are actually teaching.
Education really only needs good quality textbooks and we are now at a point of being able to teach the material through youtube-like channels and students can keep watching and reading until they understand.
You master French and then you find out the French have this funny habit of reversing the syllables of their words (Verlan)...
Tromé (Métro Metro) ...
Cimer (Merci Thank You) ...
Ouf (Fou Crazy) ...
Oim (Moi Me) ...
Meuf (Femme Woman) ...
Reuf (Frère Brother) ...
Reum (Mère Mother)
Now there is a classic "contradiction in terms"...
Bring back Latin!
“Don’t know much about the French I took”
I learned that:
“Vous voulez sortier c’est Soir”
always expects:
Pa! Je ne vous conne pa!
J’ai oublié plus que la plupart de mes cohortes savent.
Ce n’est pas difficile de savoir plus francais que moi.
(I think...)
Plus de biere, si’l vous plait.
Plus de bière demandée - je suis heureux de fournir!
Maintenant je suis très fatigué - je dois me retirer pour la nuit.
My high school French class was life changing. I went on to major in French and have been to France several times. More than being able to speak another language I learned another culture, studied French literature and saw the world from a different perspective
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Not at all my experience. Probably not the experience of most students of high school French in North America. You took it because a language was required and your school started you out in French, and once they started conducting the class in French, it was hard to understand exactly what was going on.
I've had some happier experiences with other languages since then, but I wouldn't want to relive high school French, and I suspect many other people who took French in high school wouldn't either.
I just remember the movie “Dead Poets’ Society” where the student had to get up in front of the class and recite a whole passage in French.
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