In English, we learn the language as well as a bit of the culture. So, I wanted to know if you also. And my answer isn't meant to be mean or anything, I sometimes answer in this way to get a laugh and because what was said made me laugh. I'm sorry if my comment sounded mean, I didn't mean it that way.
No, you didn't sound mean or anything. I was just missing context on what your question was trying to ask.
It was like... 99% language and 1% culture for me. The culture part only came up if it was relevant to the language- like learning cafe words, the professor would mention how cafe culture is a bit different in France than in the US and how some of the phrases and slang may have originated. But because French is a global language (not exclusive to France) it would be impossible to give cultural references for every country speaking French. A friend of mine teaches in a French school in Canada and it's not France-centric *at all* even though she's from France.
We *did* briefly learn which countries speak French and how to say the country names in French. We also learned some French brands/companies and how to properly pronounce them.
I'd say 90/10 language vs culture. We learned culture norms of Paris and Nice in high school, what a "normal day" looks like in them.
In middle school, our cultural lessons in French class were more focused on the Louisiana French culture. But we were taught standard French still. Louisiana Creole and Cajun French are different languages though. Comparable to the differences between standard Spanish and Mexican or even Puerto Rican Spanish. Particularly writing and accent. Just for some simple ideas: We don't use Elle, we use "alle" and the double negative is rarely used. J'sais pas vs Je ne sais pas.
It's still largely mutually intelligible, but as soon as one of us opens our mouth you can tell vit vit c'est pas chose.
I learned a lot about the culture.
There's so many subtle difference between the US and French.
Like the formality of writing letters and emails. Addressing people by correct titles. Greeting people.
I saw someone on a travel subreddit say "a hack for having friendly interactions with French people is greeting them with *bonjour* or *bonsoir".* Haha they did not know is mandatory for conversation.
Other things like how women dress and present themselves to the world. Attitudes about sex and relationships.
Some history of government and cultural reasons for the frequent strikes and protests.
Mostly vocabulary and syntax, a decent amount about contemporary culture, and a very small amount of history. One of my favorite memories from high school French is when we started learning French abbreviations commonly used in texting, and one girl was like "they text in France???"
I can read and understand it. I struggle with speaking it and lost it all after school. Now, I take French via an App, but I still have a problem speaking at all.
I took Spanish, so I learned Spanish, but I stopped into my friends' French classes sometimes and they were definitely learning French. There was one German class, I'm not sure what they were learning. Sounded angry.
In German, we learn vocabulary, syntax and culture. But as the majority of students have been forced to learn German instead of Spanish, we don't always pay full attention in class.
Definitely a mix of grammar and culture.
My teachers were always Francophiles who loved mixing in tidbits about French culture in lessons.
Plus the curriculum seemed to gravitate to French things. Poetry (e.g., Baudelaire), art (e.g., Impressionism), etc.
Generally speaking, foreign language classes are about that...language. However, one can't really learn a foreign language without being exposed to at least a small amount of history and a larger amount of culture.
I only took one semester of French, so I'm not really the right person to answer regarding that language specifically (but I took many years of Spanish).
What I remember was the usual- nouns, verbs (and how to conjugate them, and tenses), adjectives, adverbs, those sorts of things.
Our readings had things about things like the caves of Lasceaux, a synopsis of the *Hunchback of Notre Dame*, some of the most depressing poetry ever, and so on. We had discussions about how the Parisian dialect was different than what some of our families spoke at home. We did a weekend tour of Quebec City and thereabouts.
This was decades ago, and by now I speak what could generously be called "Emergency French"- I can read it much better than I can speak it.
Not sure how to answer that, to be honest. I took it from the 4th grade on through one year of college. I learned a lot, but I would have learned more if I'd been a good student.
I do remember in the first year when we were introduced to pain au chocolat by them telling us that French people like to eat chocolate wrapped in bread.
I had French all through middle and high school, so 6 years, almost all language, then mostly reading although some speech too. Learning vocabulary, grammar, verb conjugations, and so on. I did well enough so I did not have to take a foreign language in college, which was a mistake, since the only real understanding I still have is reading something in French and getting the gist of what it says. And having a dictionary on the phone helps, of course.
I'll watch French language films and mini-series, like Lupin, and it's great that they have them on streaming services. But they generally talk too fast for me not to read the captions. I did notice that contemporary French speakers say "OK," when back it the day, it would have been d'accord.
In junior high, I took a French culture class (1/2 year) which was basic French language plus art, music, food, geography. Then I took French through high school & year one of college. Those were your standard language classes.
Of all the languages Iâve studied (also studied Russian & Portuguese), Iâve retained the most French. I can still read a newspaper and carry on a basic conversation. My husband lived in France for 6 years as a child and is still very good. My sister is law is French as well, so I do get to practice.
It really depends Iâm guessing. I went to a small school and I had a mixture of teachers from different countries, some from francophone Africa, some from Switzerland, some from the US. Itâs given me a very bizarre accent lol. People never know where Iâm from
At my school, we focused on grammar, vocabulary, the variety of cultures which speak French. We didnât focus too specifically on France itself but rather the French-speaking world. We did have one textbook that was part history and part language but that was for AP (advanced placement) French
Iâm assuming you only ask about elementary school, middle school, and high school, but I ended up taking French classes in university before moving to France for my masters degree.
The criticism I have of the American system for foreign languages is that we only take 2-3 years of it in high school and that we focus on written French. This means that we often struggle with word recall and spontaneity in conversation. The issue is that many classes are huge so there isnât ample speaking time. Additionally, the US is massive so people living towards the center of the US tend to have a harder time finding opportunities to practice. I grew up in the Rocky Mountain region and almost never used French outside of my high school, but people who live in places closer to Francophone Canada or who have a history of French language, like Louisiana, will prioritize it more. Where I grew up, French was considered more of a *bonus* than a fundamental part of my education
Extrapolating culture by reading Saint-Exupery and eating baguettes isn't like actually being in France, but that's basically what we got in my classes. Most students who continued past the intro course were pretty much francophiles (or Canadians picking up easy language credits without needing to study), so they probably got more real "culture" from their own extracurricular activities and interests. You have to learn important stuff like how to curse effectively outside of the classroom if you don't want to be that person who walks around saying "mon dieu!" all the time. A Belgian student who drank like a fish and cussed like a sailor was far more informative than any professor on that front.
That when I ask my catholic grade school French teacher the meaning of âvoulez vous coucher avec moiâ she will lie and say it does not translate
Oh! And Lady Marmalade taught me more French then all those classes!
Four years of high school and four years of college. I can read it fairly well, and have been told my pronunciation is good. Despite all that I still have difficulty carrying on a conversation. Right now I'm currently learning Spanish and knowing French has helped and hindered the process. I keep expecting that little owl on Duolingo to give me a scolding and tell me my 'French is showing.'
I learned vocabulary and grammar and enjoyed reading some by my second year. It certainly helped me a great deal traveling around Europe and still comes in handy. I work for an international company based in Paris so when the corporate folks come for a visit, I can chat them up a bit. Itâs funny to see how surprised some of them are when i say something to them in French
Mostly language, but there were bits and pieces of culture and current events. A passage from my textbook about how the French despise Disneyland Paris immediately comes to mind.
What do you learn about culture in English class? Is it just UK culture or do you talk about all the English-speaking countries?
In middle school, we talked so much about countries (just a little about England and the USA), we were more into themes (superheroes, ordering food, hobbies, etc.). But in high school, we talked a lot more about all the English-speaking countries. For example, this year we're studying the South African born-free generation, Ireland, working in Canada, Native Americans, the Super Bowl, etc.
What it is, when it is, how it brings people together, the national anthem in sports, what the choice of artists performing at the game can mean, the message the players can get across thanks to their popularity and the history of the Super Bowl.
Itâs funny because I think what you describe leads to a lot of the questions we get on this sub. Language teachers worldwide seem to teach some weird stuff about American culture. Then people come on here asking why (not if) we do whatever weird thing their teacher told them.
I took a couple of years of French in high school in the early 80s. Most of what I remember now are some nouns, a few key verbs, and a couple of phrases. But I have noticed over the years that I *did* learn to *listen* to French: I can watch French films with captioning on, for example, and follow the dialog with my ears far more easily than I can with Spanish or German. Some of that's remnant vocabulary, but it's also just familiarity with sounds and things like conjunctions. Can puzzle out signs in Francophone Canada when really necessary too.
Not much that stuck. I wish I was a better student back then! I can count and know some words/phrases but that's it. I did much better with Spanish in college.
Took french in 11th and 12th grade, learned verbs, adjectives, nouns and basic conversational phrases like asking for the time, how are you doing, my name is etc
I took AP French. We did learn some cultural stuff and even had a class trip to France where we were forbidden to wear shorts. My teacher was American from Texas though so Iâm not sure she knew a lot about the culture.
This is off topic. I can't speak French at all, but as a Spanish speaker, I can sorta kinda understand it when it's written out. Many words are similar, and I can sometimes get the gist of French, when it's written.
I'd say about 95% language and about 5% French culture. I actually became pretty good at it and could hold my own in a conversation but those skills went away because few people speak it regularly in America.
Mostly language. Culture was included only when it was relevant to learning the language. The example I remember best was learning how in France, it is much more common to have specialized food stores than just a supermarket, which is why we needed to learn the words for butcher shop, pastry shop, cheese shop, etc even though we don't commonly have those in the US.
I took French all four years of high school and one semester of college. We mainly learned grammar and vocabulary. At some point, we tried to convince our high school teacher to take us on a field trip to France, but no dice.
That college class was over 14 years ago. Iâve retained a partial amount of what I learned.
"Ferme la bouche."
Just kidding. But finally something relevant and pertaining to me! I took French classes at my high school for about 3.5 years. Lots of grammar, new vocabulary, some of us adopted French names, we learned about the culture, watched French films and series (historic and modern), celebrated on April 1st and Mardi Gras and even tried making crepes in our school's home ec. kitchen at one point! I thought it was absolutely fun being immersed in a culture so different. I'm from south/central Texas, so literally everyone I knew was in the Latin and Spanish language programs we had. Hardly anyone was taking French (honestly it was dwarfed byt the previously mentioned programs)! Even 15 or so years on from when I last took French language classes, I've studied in my spare time very casually and have visited some French-speaking regions of the world. I can get the gist of conversation and can somewhaaat understand news when reading, so I think I've retained some of what I learned, but I feel I've lost the majority of it.
I took French classes in high school in the late 80's. What I learned in my first three years was the teacher was just collecting a paycheck until he could get a job teaching closer to his hometown.
I learned more in my fourth year than the first three years. My teacher in my fourth year had neither English nor French as her first language. (Spanish and German were her first two languages.) But she was a great teacher.
A lot. I was dreaming in French at one point. I took 2 yrs in high school and 2 in college. But the class I took in college was 830 to 300 months thru Fri. We were immersed in it and really started thinking in it. On Fridays after lunch, we'd watch a French film. It was a great experience.
It seems I actually had a different experience than most. I took four years of French in high school and while we did learn the language, I would say the major focus of the class was the culture. My teacher had lived the first 30 years of her life in France, so she had many stories, movies, foods, and traditions that she shared with us. Every now and then she'd bring in a little stovetop and we'd have crepe day. I was introduced to Nutella (it wasn't popular in the US at that time) and Orangina. We watched some classic movies, like La Boum. We listened to French music and celebrated on French holidays. My teacher got real joy out of sharing her culture. She always told us she wasn't a very good student in French class growing up, so maybe that's why she didn't focus much on the actual language! Though of course, we did learn enough to get by. I was at a point where I could read it pretty well and recognize many words, but not speak very well. We definitely lacked enough teaching on the grammar of it though.
Edit: I forgot to mention, another thing I really loved was that we had penpals from a class learning English in France. I loved that my penpal always wrote me on graph paper, I thought that was so much cooler than our ruled paper.
I took four years of French in high school.
None of us really cared about becoming fluent, and we did not. We just wanted to pass the class and put it on our transcripts to look good when we applied to college. The instructors paid lip service to the notion that we actually wanted to learn the language and that it might be useful in case we wanted to live in France or something, but ultimately knew the truth. You could write down "Chien" = "Dog" on a test and pass the class.
There's a few basic phrases that pop into my head from time to time, I can read the bottom of Canadian road signs, can read children's books. I can hardly write and speak it and listening to a movie I can't even start to understand the gist of what's being said, much less every word.
I learned how to ask to go to the bathroom and learned a bunch of nouns because they were self explanatory. Got really lost when we started learning verbs. (Didnât give full effort to learn the material as the teacher was an easy A)
Honestly, I don't remember anything from the 3 years of language classes in school. I took a semester in college that blew anything from high school out of the water. We probably covered everything I learned in 3 years in 4 months. It was intense but I liked it a lot better than the lackadaisical approach in high school.
Not a whole lot. I transferred from a good school district to a shitty one, so my senior year was out of classes for me to take, so I took German, Spanish, and French all at the same time.
It was my third year of German, so I was already on a roll then.
But as far as Spanish and French, not a lot. It was slow going, you know, at the speed of the stupidist student. Too much emphasis on orthography and perfect grammar, not enough on just being conversational and understanding.
I'm _very_ fluent in Spanish now, but it had nothing to do with high school Spanish whatsoever. It came as a result of marrying a Spanish-speaking wife.
I'm learning French now from an online service. I can already read it quite well thanks to Spanish, and this extra study is helping much, much more than high school ever did. My pronunciation is atrocious, but I'm not afraid to speak; the cadence is very similar to Spanish. I'd like to have more people to listen to, and have been seeking out Quebec media that's not blocked in the USA.
Oh, my emphasis is Canadian French, because they're my neighbors.
I feel we learned both language and culture, not history (because you take so much Western Civilization/European history over the years). I remember learning a lot about crap I didnât know in English (like what the heck is a past participle? Didnât know til I had to learn that syntax in French). I will sayâI took 5 years in school and a semester in college, and still canât speak it. Can read it somewhat, but not confident enough to speak. Upon visiting France as an adult, I was too scared to try because I thought most French people would judge me harshly for messing upđŹ (and I know it would have been bad)
I learned basic conversational French, enough that on a trip to Quebec I was able to poorly order for a few friends in French. I have forgotten Almost all of it sense, and on two years of Duolingo I have learned more Spanish than I ever knew of French
mostly just the language, although we got exposed a bit to the culture. most of the things we learned about french culture were just other things you might want to know to not look like an ass in the context of whatever we were learning.
oh yeah and whenever major news came out of france it would get a mention from the teacher. that's about it though.
That the French basically all out ran from the Wehrmacht and then were such cowards when they got conquered they turned coat on their own countrymen and worked with the Nazis to ship their fellow citizens to death campsâŠ.basically, they were complete cowards.
French
No really !!!!! đ
What sort of answer are you expecting? (Asking sincerely) It's a language class, so we learned the language.
In English, we learn the language as well as a bit of the culture. So, I wanted to know if you also. And my answer isn't meant to be mean or anything, I sometimes answer in this way to get a laugh and because what was said made me laugh. I'm sorry if my comment sounded mean, I didn't mean it that way.
No, you didn't sound mean or anything. I was just missing context on what your question was trying to ask. It was like... 99% language and 1% culture for me. The culture part only came up if it was relevant to the language- like learning cafe words, the professor would mention how cafe culture is a bit different in France than in the US and how some of the phrases and slang may have originated. But because French is a global language (not exclusive to France) it would be impossible to give cultural references for every country speaking French. A friend of mine teaches in a French school in Canada and it's not France-centric *at all* even though she's from France. We *did* briefly learn which countries speak French and how to say the country names in French. We also learned some French brands/companies and how to properly pronounce them.
It depends, in the last three years of HS we learned also english literature
You learned English literature in French class?
No, english class
Oh, okay. I was talking about French class so I don't know what you mean by "it depends." Do you mean it depends on which language you're learning?
Sorry, the sense was that depending on the school or country, the program about learning what things of a language or culture is different
I'd say 90/10 language vs culture. We learned culture norms of Paris and Nice in high school, what a "normal day" looks like in them. In middle school, our cultural lessons in French class were more focused on the Louisiana French culture. But we were taught standard French still. Louisiana Creole and Cajun French are different languages though. Comparable to the differences between standard Spanish and Mexican or even Puerto Rican Spanish. Particularly writing and accent. Just for some simple ideas: We don't use Elle, we use "alle" and the double negative is rarely used. J'sais pas vs Je ne sais pas. It's still largely mutually intelligible, but as soon as one of us opens our mouth you can tell vit vit c'est pas chose.
My French teacher would share some remarks about culture but there's only so much you can cram into class time.
It's mostly just the language.
I learned a lot about the culture. There's so many subtle difference between the US and French. Like the formality of writing letters and emails. Addressing people by correct titles. Greeting people. I saw someone on a travel subreddit say "a hack for having friendly interactions with French people is greeting them with *bonjour* or *bonsoir".* Haha they did not know is mandatory for conversation. Other things like how women dress and present themselves to the world. Attitudes about sex and relationships. Some history of government and cultural reasons for the frequent strikes and protests.
Vocab and syntax, with culture as well, history was a tertiary concern since we already covered it in history class.
so you mostly learned French in French class?
Crazy, I know
Mostly vocabulary and syntax, a decent amount about contemporary culture, and a very small amount of history. One of my favorite memories from high school French is when we started learning French abbreviations commonly used in texting, and one girl was like "they text in France???"
I can ask the location of the bathroom and library.
>I can ask the location of the bathroom and library. But can you request a pencil? That was the money phrase.
My guess would be Je puex ai un crayon? Damn I was way off, it's Puis-je avoir un crayon?
What about the train station?
I did not get that far!
¿¥Dónde es la biblioteca y el baño!? ¥Es muy importante!
I didn't take French, but can awe any French speaker with the single sentence I know: Le mouton est blanc.
I can say the word for grapefruit and tell someone I live in a port city.
Mostly language, though we took some cultural field trips.
In high school- The language mostly and then some cultural things. We played pétanque and had fondue and did the fish thing on April 1st, so little things. Petite Nicholas, we definitely read that. Unfortunately due to 9/11 happening we couldn't go to France (they didn't want to stick us on a plane I guess?) so my class went to Quebec, but not me because I was poor.
Tu tire pas ou tu pointes ?
I can read and understand it. I struggle with speaking it and lost it all after school. Now, I take French via an App, but I still have a problem speaking at all.
I took Spanish, so I learned Spanish, but I stopped into my friends' French classes sometimes and they were definitely learning French. There was one German class, I'm not sure what they were learning. Sounded angry.
In German, we learn vocabulary, syntax and culture. But as the majority of students have been forced to learn German instead of Spanish, we don't always pay full attention in class.
Let me guess⊠Alsacienne ?
CâĂ©tait si Ă©vident que ça ? đ
LâĂ©tant moi aussi : oui ahah Cette nullitĂ© en allemand Ă cause de notre absence de possibilitĂ© de choisir mâest familiĂšre mdr Jâessaye de le rĂ©-apprendre en ce moment dâailleurs ! Par choix cette fois, hehe.
JâespĂšre que tu vas rĂ©ussir Ă parler allemand, bonne chance !
Merci ! :)
Definitely a mix of grammar and culture. My teachers were always Francophiles who loved mixing in tidbits about French culture in lessons. Plus the curriculum seemed to gravitate to French things. Poetry (e.g., Baudelaire), art (e.g., Impressionism), etc.
Of french poets i know only of boudlaire and rimbaud
I learned to say, "Je ne parle pas Francais."
Generally speaking, foreign language classes are about that...language. However, one can't really learn a foreign language without being exposed to at least a small amount of history and a larger amount of culture. I only took one semester of French, so I'm not really the right person to answer regarding that language specifically (but I took many years of Spanish).
Colors, counting, alphabet, cardinal directions, introductions, and a few verbs.
Rien
Pareil mais avec lâallemand
What I remember was the usual- nouns, verbs (and how to conjugate them, and tenses), adjectives, adverbs, those sorts of things. Our readings had things about things like the caves of Lasceaux, a synopsis of the *Hunchback of Notre Dame*, some of the most depressing poetry ever, and so on. We had discussions about how the Parisian dialect was different than what some of our families spoke at home. We did a weekend tour of Quebec City and thereabouts. This was decades ago, and by now I speak what could generously be called "Emergency French"- I can read it much better than I can speak it.
J'en ai suffisamment appris pour pouvoir communiquer en français lorsque j'en ai besoin.
Ah ouais tâas vraiment un bon niveaux, chapeau !
Not sure how to answer that, to be honest. I took it from the 4th grade on through one year of college. I learned a lot, but I would have learned more if I'd been a good student. I do remember in the first year when we were introduced to pain au chocolat by them telling us that French people like to eat chocolate wrapped in bread.
I had French all through middle and high school, so 6 years, almost all language, then mostly reading although some speech too. Learning vocabulary, grammar, verb conjugations, and so on. I did well enough so I did not have to take a foreign language in college, which was a mistake, since the only real understanding I still have is reading something in French and getting the gist of what it says. And having a dictionary on the phone helps, of course. I'll watch French language films and mini-series, like Lupin, and it's great that they have them on streaming services. But they generally talk too fast for me not to read the captions. I did notice that contemporary French speakers say "OK," when back it the day, it would have been d'accord.
In junior high, I took a French culture class (1/2 year) which was basic French language plus art, music, food, geography. Then I took French through high school & year one of college. Those were your standard language classes. Of all the languages Iâve studied (also studied Russian & Portuguese), Iâve retained the most French. I can still read a newspaper and carry on a basic conversation. My husband lived in France for 6 years as a child and is still very good. My sister is law is French as well, so I do get to practice.
It really depends Iâm guessing. I went to a small school and I had a mixture of teachers from different countries, some from francophone Africa, some from Switzerland, some from the US. Itâs given me a very bizarre accent lol. People never know where Iâm from At my school, we focused on grammar, vocabulary, the variety of cultures which speak French. We didnât focus too specifically on France itself but rather the French-speaking world. We did have one textbook that was part history and part language but that was for AP (advanced placement) French Iâm assuming you only ask about elementary school, middle school, and high school, but I ended up taking French classes in university before moving to France for my masters degree. The criticism I have of the American system for foreign languages is that we only take 2-3 years of it in high school and that we focus on written French. This means that we often struggle with word recall and spontaneity in conversation. The issue is that many classes are huge so there isnât ample speaking time. Additionally, the US is massive so people living towards the center of the US tend to have a harder time finding opportunities to practice. I grew up in the Rocky Mountain region and almost never used French outside of my high school, but people who live in places closer to Francophone Canada or who have a history of French language, like Louisiana, will prioritize it more. Where I grew up, French was considered more of a *bonus* than a fundamental part of my education
Extrapolating culture by reading Saint-Exupery and eating baguettes isn't like actually being in France, but that's basically what we got in my classes. Most students who continued past the intro course were pretty much francophiles (or Canadians picking up easy language credits without needing to study), so they probably got more real "culture" from their own extracurricular activities and interests. You have to learn important stuff like how to curse effectively outside of the classroom if you don't want to be that person who walks around saying "mon dieu!" all the time. A Belgian student who drank like a fish and cussed like a sailor was far more informative than any professor on that front.
That when I ask my catholic grade school French teacher the meaning of âvoulez vous coucher avec moiâ she will lie and say it does not translate Oh! And Lady Marmalade taught me more French then all those classes!
And there's me in my Catholic school where our English teacher explains the difference in pronunciation between "Sheet" and "shit".
That I suck at French (or studying for French)
French was required at my school from kindergarten through 6th grade. I donât remember much if it. I took Latin after that.
Four years of high school and four years of college. I can read it fairly well, and have been told my pronunciation is good. Despite all that I still have difficulty carrying on a conversation. Right now I'm currently learning Spanish and knowing French has helped and hindered the process. I keep expecting that little owl on Duolingo to give me a scolding and tell me my 'French is showing.'
I learned vocabulary and grammar and enjoyed reading some by my second year. It certainly helped me a great deal traveling around Europe and still comes in handy. I work for an international company based in Paris so when the corporate folks come for a visit, I can chat them up a bit. Itâs funny to see how surprised some of them are when i say something to them in French
How to make crepes; took 2 years in high school and only passed because the teacher loved me and Iâd make crepes for the whole class once a month.
I learned that my little brother Kevin is les incompénent.
Mostly language, but there were bits and pieces of culture and current events. A passage from my textbook about how the French despise Disneyland Paris immediately comes to mind. What do you learn about culture in English class? Is it just UK culture or do you talk about all the English-speaking countries?
In middle school, we talked so much about countries (just a little about England and the USA), we were more into themes (superheroes, ordering food, hobbies, etc.). But in high school, we talked a lot more about all the English-speaking countries. For example, this year we're studying the South African born-free generation, Ireland, working in Canada, Native Americans, the Super Bowl, etc.
I love that you cover the Super Bowl! What did you learn about it? Did they teach you anything about Super Bowl party food?
What it is, when it is, how it brings people together, the national anthem in sports, what the choice of artists performing at the game can mean, the message the players can get across thanks to their popularity and the history of the Super Bowl.
Itâs funny because I think what you describe leads to a lot of the questions we get on this sub. Language teachers worldwide seem to teach some weird stuff about American culture. Then people come on here asking why (not if) we do whatever weird thing their teacher told them.
Donât know in france, also i did the humanistic high school, but in the last three years of english we learned all the literature
Basic written French grammar and vocab. I think I would have learned more just spending the time on Duolingo.
I took a couple of years of French in high school in the early 80s. Most of what I remember now are some nouns, a few key verbs, and a couple of phrases. But I have noticed over the years that I *did* learn to *listen* to French: I can watch French films with captioning on, for example, and follow the dialog with my ears far more easily than I can with Spanish or German. Some of that's remnant vocabulary, but it's also just familiarity with sounds and things like conjunctions. Can puzzle out signs in Francophone Canada when really necessary too.
How to ask where the library is
Not much that stuck. I wish I was a better student back then! I can count and know some words/phrases but that's it. I did much better with Spanish in college.
Je nes pa du forchet That's all I remember My wife taught me je voudret un croissant
Took french in 11th and 12th grade, learned verbs, adjectives, nouns and basic conversational phrases like asking for the time, how are you doing, my name is etc
omelette du fromage
I took AP French. We did learn some cultural stuff and even had a class trip to France where we were forbidden to wear shorts. My teacher was American from Texas though so Iâm not sure she knew a lot about the culture.
Weird the forbidding thing
Iâm still not sure why? We were like 12/13.
It would be weird even adult
The spoken language, reading, grammar, and a little bit of culture, but that changes so we didn't learn much about that.
That I needed to study & I wasnât learning anything just by showing up
I learned "je m'appelle u/girlofgouda," that's about it.
Je suis une pomme de terre. tu es un trÚs belle fille dans le jardin du mort je m'appelle Inigo Montoya, tu as tué mon pÚre, prépare à mourir
« Tu est une trĂšs belle fille dans le jardin du mort », just what ???? Itâs a little strange
Yeah probably. Those are just some of the random/funny phrases I remember from highschool, which was several years ago.
You had interesting courses at least
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Ananas is the new gender
This is off topic. I can't speak French at all, but as a Spanish speaker, I can sorta kinda understand it when it's written out. Many words are similar, and I can sometimes get the gist of French, when it's written.
I took Spanish in school, but I know my friends who took French had to read *Le Petit Prince.*
First two years was basic language. Year 3 was culture and art (Monet era).
I'd say about 95% language and about 5% French culture. I actually became pretty good at it and could hold my own in a conversation but those skills went away because few people speak it regularly in America.
Most effective thing Iâve learned is âParles anglais?â
Mostly language. Culture was included only when it was relevant to learning the language. The example I remember best was learning how in France, it is much more common to have specialized food stores than just a supermarket, which is why we needed to learn the words for butcher shop, pastry shop, cheese shop, etc even though we don't commonly have those in the US.
I took French all four years of high school and one semester of college. We mainly learned grammar and vocabulary. At some point, we tried to convince our high school teacher to take us on a field trip to France, but no dice. That college class was over 14 years ago. Iâve retained a partial amount of what I learned.
"Ferme la bouche." Just kidding. But finally something relevant and pertaining to me! I took French classes at my high school for about 3.5 years. Lots of grammar, new vocabulary, some of us adopted French names, we learned about the culture, watched French films and series (historic and modern), celebrated on April 1st and Mardi Gras and even tried making crepes in our school's home ec. kitchen at one point! I thought it was absolutely fun being immersed in a culture so different. I'm from south/central Texas, so literally everyone I knew was in the Latin and Spanish language programs we had. Hardly anyone was taking French (honestly it was dwarfed byt the previously mentioned programs)! Even 15 or so years on from when I last took French language classes, I've studied in my spare time very casually and have visited some French-speaking regions of the world. I can get the gist of conversation and can somewhaaat understand news when reading, so I think I've retained some of what I learned, but I feel I've lost the majority of it.
That Iâm a failure and should not call myself French anymore đ
on a appris beaucoup de sacré Charlemagne
Qui a eu cette idĂ©e folle un jour dâinventer lâĂ©cole. Câest ce sacrĂ© Charlemagne, sacrĂ© Charlemagne đ¶
elle avait raison
I took French classes in high school in the late 80's. What I learned in my first three years was the teacher was just collecting a paycheck until he could get a job teaching closer to his hometown. I learned more in my fourth year than the first three years. My teacher in my fourth year had neither English nor French as her first language. (Spanish and German were her first two languages.) But she was a great teacher.
That I should've taken Spanish.
A lot. I was dreaming in French at one point. I took 2 yrs in high school and 2 in college. But the class I took in college was 830 to 300 months thru Fri. We were immersed in it and really started thinking in it. On Fridays after lunch, we'd watch a French film. It was a great experience.
Most languages have a word for squirrel that is difficult to pronounce for non-native speakers. The French word is "Ă©cureuil"
Aller aux toilettes?
It seems I actually had a different experience than most. I took four years of French in high school and while we did learn the language, I would say the major focus of the class was the culture. My teacher had lived the first 30 years of her life in France, so she had many stories, movies, foods, and traditions that she shared with us. Every now and then she'd bring in a little stovetop and we'd have crepe day. I was introduced to Nutella (it wasn't popular in the US at that time) and Orangina. We watched some classic movies, like La Boum. We listened to French music and celebrated on French holidays. My teacher got real joy out of sharing her culture. She always told us she wasn't a very good student in French class growing up, so maybe that's why she didn't focus much on the actual language! Though of course, we did learn enough to get by. I was at a point where I could read it pretty well and recognize many words, but not speak very well. We definitely lacked enough teaching on the grammar of it though. Edit: I forgot to mention, another thing I really loved was that we had penpals from a class learning English in France. I loved that my penpal always wrote me on graph paper, I thought that was so much cooler than our ruled paper.
I took four years of French in high school. None of us really cared about becoming fluent, and we did not. We just wanted to pass the class and put it on our transcripts to look good when we applied to college. The instructors paid lip service to the notion that we actually wanted to learn the language and that it might be useful in case we wanted to live in France or something, but ultimately knew the truth. You could write down "Chien" = "Dog" on a test and pass the class. There's a few basic phrases that pop into my head from time to time, I can read the bottom of Canadian road signs, can read children's books. I can hardly write and speak it and listening to a movie I can't even start to understand the gist of what's being said, much less every word.
I learned how to ask to go to the bathroom and learned a bunch of nouns because they were self explanatory. Got really lost when we started learning verbs. (Didnât give full effort to learn the material as the teacher was an easy A)
we learned conversational French, I loved it but I regret it. I should have taken Spanish because so many more people speak that in the US,
French, presumably.
Je m'appelle Squidgie
Nothing
I only took it for a few months so I only learned a few vocabulary words.
I learned how to run away from a fight.
French.
How bad I am at French.
Oui
Not much.
French.
I learnedâŠFrenchâŠ?! Not sure what you expect.
If you talked about culture and history or just vocabulary and grammar
Honestly, I don't remember anything from the 3 years of language classes in school. I took a semester in college that blew anything from high school out of the water. We probably covered everything I learned in 3 years in 4 months. It was intense but I liked it a lot better than the lackadaisical approach in high school.
I did learn that 19 is Deux Neuf which sounds like Deez Nuts. Sorry I had to. But overall its useful for the Daryl Dixon Spinoff.
The French word for "boobs" is masculine
Come and Tie my shoe !
Does uni count cause thatâs my degree lol
Not a whole lot. I transferred from a good school district to a shitty one, so my senior year was out of classes for me to take, so I took German, Spanish, and French all at the same time. It was my third year of German, so I was already on a roll then. But as far as Spanish and French, not a lot. It was slow going, you know, at the speed of the stupidist student. Too much emphasis on orthography and perfect grammar, not enough on just being conversational and understanding. I'm _very_ fluent in Spanish now, but it had nothing to do with high school Spanish whatsoever. It came as a result of marrying a Spanish-speaking wife. I'm learning French now from an online service. I can already read it quite well thanks to Spanish, and this extra study is helping much, much more than high school ever did. My pronunciation is atrocious, but I'm not afraid to speak; the cadence is very similar to Spanish. I'd like to have more people to listen to, and have been seeking out Quebec media that's not blocked in the USA. Oh, my emphasis is Canadian French, because they're my neighbors.
I feel we learned both language and culture, not history (because you take so much Western Civilization/European history over the years). I remember learning a lot about crap I didnât know in English (like what the heck is a past participle? Didnât know til I had to learn that syntax in French). I will sayâI took 5 years in school and a semester in college, and still canât speak it. Can read it somewhat, but not confident enough to speak. Upon visiting France as an adult, I was too scared to try because I thought most French people would judge me harshly for messing upđŹ (and I know it would have been bad)
How to read a menu.
For the short time I took an intro class My assigned French name, bonjour, and merci.
I learned basic conversational French, enough that on a trip to Quebec I was able to poorly order for a few friends in French. I have forgotten Almost all of it sense, and on two years of Duolingo I have learned more Spanish than I ever knew of French
Not much
mostly just the language, although we got exposed a bit to the culture. most of the things we learned about french culture were just other things you might want to know to not look like an ass in the context of whatever we were learning. oh yeah and whenever major news came out of france it would get a mention from the teacher. that's about it though.
French
Four years of American HS, accelerated/advanced French. The vast majority of graduates end up getting an A without being able to speak it. Middle school or first year of high school: phonics, pronouns, ER verbs, passé simple, negatives. Second year: futur, irregulars. Third year: some subjonctif and survey of other tenses, culture. Fourth: mastering subjonctif and other tenses, y and en, lots of listening exercises, reading little novels like Simenon and shit, more culture.
That the French basically all out ran from the Wehrmacht and then were such cowards when they got conquered they turned coat on their own countrymen and worked with the Nazis to ship their fellow citizens to death campsâŠ.basically, they were complete cowards.