I took 5 years of french and by the end of it all I could do was count to 10 and say "may i go to the bathroom". It wasn't just me either. There were maybe 3 people actually at grade level when I was in 9th. I remember the teacher asking me why i never did anything in class and tell her, in English, that I knew literally no french. None. Not a single phrase. All my projects were done either by google translate or simple translating English word for work into french with a dictionary
Thank god none of those frog c*nts were allowed to fail students or the class would've been a blood bath.
I once made my 6th grade teacher rage by writing "I don't know" for literally ever answer on an exam. She wanted me to leave them blank but I wasn't willing to set there and do literally nothing for 90 minutes. In the same class I once chewed thru a pencil.
My friend made he actually scream when she said french didn't matter because Canada was an English speaking country (which it is)
I also refused to sign. I don;t know if other teachers did this or just mine but she """taught""" by showing vhs's of some blond c*nt saying a word and making a hand sign and we had to repeat both. Even as a children I realized it was an offense waste of my time.
In the end not only did I learn virtually no french but I also devolved a serious and thus far life long hate for francophones. I don't engage with them, I don't hire them, I don't work for them, I segregate from them as totally as I do Indians, injuns and blacks.
It's also no small part of why I don't pay taxes. If the government has money to piss away on worthless french classes than they surely have no need of mine.
!leafs if any of u r french, plz keep yourself safe.
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Yeah I quit french as soon as I was allowed to, I retained none of it and I won't learn any more either, frick the French
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Except the Acadians. They're chill AF.
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erl on mah skrimp
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I have retained very little of the French I was taught and I stopped taking French as soon as it was optional. I went to a French immersion school for awhile that was split between classes that were taught in English and classes that were taught in French and I remember we all hated the French kids because we were r-slurs who didn't realize they weren't actually French but were put in those classes by their parents so they could learn French as a second language better.
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bullshit, they were put there so they could get high paying bullshit gov jobs
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Content d'avoir enrichi culturellement ton éducation, big
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yes I am drun but is'ter after 7 pm so it's dine
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The one tradition that unites anglos and francos unironically
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u r gay
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I don; speak loser
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I went to french immersion from k to 8 and i loathe that stupid language. I was once "fluent" in what passes for french in Canada, read full books and could even conjugate verbs. I made it a point to forget everything I ever learned about that shitty stupid language.
I dont care about the Voyageurs, Quebec, sirop d'érable or the stupid bécherelle
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I only know one of those words! I did a better job forgetting than u
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Every french teacher I ever had looked and taught like they were the picked up off the street 5 minutes before class.
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Lucky, I had real from the french provinces french teachers who unironically thought that langue equality was a thing
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I took French in 6th-11th grade iirc. I'm reasonably good at reading the news and I can even get parts of movies if they don't talk too fast. Apparently Canadians just really don't want to learn it.
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French was my most hated subject in school and I can't even tell you why. I just never enjoyed it and was happy when it was no long compulsory.
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I have the problem that some part of my brain was like "hey wtf... We don't even know this language. Let's just go to sleep."
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Every french lesson they must endure is a bitter reminder of their failure to eradicate them
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Lmao you have no idea how it's taught here, they can't build on what you learn in the last year (because so many people learned nothing) so every single year they start back at grade school basics and try to tack a little more on. Literally in 9th grade I was doing the same work I had been in 5th
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The fact that mandatory french ruined so many canadians' lives makes me love Quebec so fricking much
Bullying an entire country that failed to wipe them out into having to learn their cringe language and pretend enjoying it for 5 years. Truly the most dramapilled region on this side of the hemisphere
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I thought all canucks knew french.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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I've never known any anglo-leaf who actually knows French. They must really suck at teaching it.
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South Florida has a lot of Quebec canucks in the winter so I must have a biased experience.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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That's the only province where you have to know it
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Nah, there isn't much benefit for the English speakers to learn French. It's up to the French speakers to learn English. Quebec literally established the language police so French wouldn't disappear completely.
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No. We heavily segregate
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I learned french bevause I wanted to say comment ça va? to hot froids but then I realized french people have slang too and gave up
Now I speak Javascript
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I fricking HATE that we are officially bilingual. It adds a fuxkton to our shopping costs due to the change in packaging. If people only knew. It's so pointless no frogs live anywhere except Quebec
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I learned French because I want to be an African Warlord named Candyman someday
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We made a couple of our french teachers cry by being such little shits all class every class. Not a single person ever took language classes seriously.
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good. they weren't serious classes
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I took German
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german is just english spoken with a dumb accent
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Yeah I got better grades in my pointless and mandatory language class because I chose the one closest to English, how'd you know?
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Scots is totally real though
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Yeah it amazes me how I took the same many years of daily french classes and came out with nothing. You get schools in Europe like Germany where kids come out at the end fully fluent in English but we so!ehow do 5 years here and at most can ask "où est la bibliotheque?" at best.
In my 30s I ended up going to night college for french and was more fluent after 2-3 months than I was in 5 years of public education.
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No you may not.
I took four years of German and the last class I took was 21 years ago, yet I blurted out "naturlich" just yesterday. Sounds like you got a retention problem.
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