On Fri, 24 May 2002 21:38:15 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
>En réponse à Kendra <kendra@...>:
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>> So the etre business was completely out of nowhere to us and it never
>> would have occured to us to put an -s on the end of things.
>
>Of course not! You're taught completely wrong!
>
>> Exactly-- but teachers of ANY language at my school basically teach it
>> as, 'this is just the way it is.'
>> I'd probably have a lot more trouble with it if I couldn't figure it out
>> by myself.
>> And our book is almost exclusively excersizes.
>
>Oh dear... I knew French was not well considered as a subject in American
>schools, but this is ridiculous!
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>Well, I must say I don't like much this teacher. I'm the kind of person
>who considers that if you want to do something, do it good or don't do it
>at all (which makes me very angry towards other French people sometimes.
>It's not for nothing that the Dutch have the expression "de Franse slag":
>"the French way" to refer to things that are not done correctly or only
>half-done :))) ).
Does this mean that American schools teach French "the French way"???
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>> And actually, my teacher is Spanish, speaks Spanish, Greek, Latin,
>> French and I think something else...
>> So I am probably learning French with a Spanish accent, which may
>> explain my frustration with the spelling, because I can find neither
>> rhymre nor reason to his pronunciation.
>
>Probably this teacher is not fluent in French at all. Did they have
>trouble finding French teachers that they had to take incompetents (sorry
>for the word, but this teacher may be very good at other languages, but
>the image you give of him tell me that he should stop teaching French) to
>fill posts?
SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)
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