Re: American Jingoism

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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>

And despite all the attention I gave to language courses in France, I must
emphasize the fact that those courses are considered by most teachers and
students like a loss of time and energy. Even English courses are
considered
futile and useless. As I said in another post, a French person is not
supposed
to speak any other language. A French person is not supposed to leave
France
anyway, and if the person does, it will be in one-week holidays where the
person will take for granted that wherever s/he goes, they will make the
effort
to talk to him/her in French.
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Are you sure you didn't mispell 'British'? That sounds like the British
attitude to foreign languages.

Well, I suppose I'd better add my tuppence.

From 11+, French and latin were compulsory, and 2 years later options were
available on ancient Greek, German, and Russian, and latin could
optionally be dropped. French was compulsory at my school for 5 years.

A couple of local schools have a strong Italian section, mainly due to the
large Italian community in my town.


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Fabian
Hey! Don't write yourself off yet. It's only in your head you feel left
out or looked down on. Just try your best. Try everything you can.

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