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

From: You can call me Al (mamapajama_at_MeAndJulio.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:02:00 GMT

"DeMaisonneuve" <lucr@me.ca> wrote in message
news:PeOUc.100485$f47.10669@nntp-post.primus.ca...
>
> "Richard" <this@is.invalid> wrote in message
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>> "Captain!" <SpammersMustDie@now.net> wrote in message
>> news:EDRTc.14550$X12.11174@edtnps84...
>>
>> > 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.
>
>

If you want to get ahead, you learn English. If you are a stupid Frenchman,
you learn only French and you go nowhere.

>

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