Newsgroups: can.general Path: utzoo!sq!wendy From: wendy@sq.sq.com (Wendy Harrison) Subject: Re: postings in the French language Message-ID: <1989Sep28.212555.19261@sq.sq.com> Reply-To: wendy@sq.com (Wendy Harrison) Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1989Sep26.132533.12660@utzoo.uucp> <22345@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep27.020112.15084@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <29462@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 21:25:55 GMT In article <29462@watmath.waterloo.edu> kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) writes: > Are you trying to tell me that 3 years of public school, mostly ORAL >french education while conjugating a few simplistic verbs is going to enable >me to EASILY/QUICKLY/I_READ_A_LOT_OF_NEWS_AND_HAVE_NO_SPARE_TIME_TO_WASTE >read Quebecois-french (the schools tend to teach a very clinical french) >more than 18 years LATER? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha How about five years of high-school french, almost 25 years later? My experience of french in school was hardly oral at all, almost exclusively written, with *heavy* emphasis on grammar, vocabulary and literature. (Conjugating many, regular and irregular verbs, etc. etc.) So, I can't string more than a few words together, and I can't follow a spoken conversation worth a damn, but I can get the gist of written French. I bet this is fairly normal. -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ______ |__ | SoftQuad Inc.