[ConorMacNessa]

J’ai besoin d’une bouteille de vin.

[Paladin2]

The French stole most of the Vowels from the Slavs.

Lock them up....

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Jonty30]

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.

[SuperLuminal]

"French Class As the Perfect Way..."

Now there is a classic "contradiction in terms"...

[MrChips]

Bring back Latin!

[The Great RJ]

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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Teachers and students start off from a position of reverence for the material. French is a glorious thing. You want to learn to speak French. Everybody’s on board, with the same goal, the same love, the same seriousness. We want French and more French. We expect to make progress; and if we don’t, we feel cheated.

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.