Re: Let's talk about langages (Advice/Help)

From: DeMaisonneuve (lucr_at_me.ca)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:47:53 -0400

"Richard" <this@is.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Captain!" <SpammersMustDie@now.net> wrote in message
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>
> > countries like the united states are full of immigrants who
> > teach their native languages to students wishing to learn them.
> > this has got to be one of the most pathetic america bashing
> > reasons i have ever seen.
>
> That sounds nice in theory but in the US and Canada, when schools look for
> teachers, formal education is required while ability is only an added
bonus.
> A recent French literature graduate from the University of <insert your
> favourite mid-western state here> has a better chance of becoming a French
> teacher in the US than a Frenchman (or a Quebecois, Haitian, Algerian,
etc.)
> despite the fact that the grad might not even speak French fluently.
>
> Not even in Quebec - where 80% of the population is francophone - is this
> rule broken. More often than not, French teachers are francophones because
> the demographics facilitate finding people with both education and ability
> but it happens that non-francophones with proper education apply and get
> hired.
>
> Richard
>
>

After high school, even with mandatory second language classes, I don't know
anyone who was talking this second language properly as a result of his
education. Be it either english or french. Those who really learn the
foreign languages do it on a voluntary basis.

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