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.

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