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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4241 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 17 of 17 24 January 2014 at 6:48am | IP Logged |
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Looks like most people who posted here are from Canada. People who worked for the Canadian government,
especially at the federal level they've been trying to get their employees to be fully bilingual (English & French) across the country. A big waste of money and limited success. Getting people to language classes is 1 thing but sending people away on exchange would allow for more exposure to a target language. A lot of people including myself went through elementary school as well as high school learning French. However, after Grade 9 (or Form 3 as some prefer to call it) we're allowed to drop French as an elective and choose another language such as Latin, German, Italian, etc. depending on the region of the country. Education at a public school is subsidized by the government through our taxes. Unless you are in an immersion program, most of us would leave the classroom unable to even perform basic tasks such as asking for directions. We all went through several years of subject-verb conjugation like Je vais, tu vas, il/elle va, etc. Looking at the teaching methods of Luca Lampariello, Moses McCormick, etc. the only way to improve a language is to spend time on your own outside the classroom. Right now I'm going through the Victor Learn French video series. I'll be lucky to pick up even 20% of what is said in the movie: "La Cage aux Folles". One day I would like to tell people: "Je parle français" as confident as I would say that I speak Chinese (我说普通话). Edited by shk00design on 24 January 2014 at 6:55am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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