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Old 08-24-2010, 05:55 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Ashartus View Post
Since anyone can take French classes in school, I don't think the government should be obligated to provide any additional free second-language training.
Maybe today, but not 20 years ago. I did take the highest levels of french available to me in high school. However, that meant 1 1 hour class per day with an Anglophone that got stuck teaching a french class out of a book that she herself didn't know how to read.

We learned to say "ils parlent" pronouncing the 's' and the 'ent'. When I got to Ottawa they told me that I was in a worse situation than having no french at all as I had to first unlearn what I was taught in high school.
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