Who learned French decades ago?

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Night-owl
Night-owl
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Was not clever enough for doing exams at school bit remember in the 3rd year at Primary school. Mr Hall started and he taught French.

So we had lessons

Just made me remember thinking how old he is now. Hopefully still alive
Dvorak
Dvorak
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M et Mme Marsaud et leur enfants. Five years of French, B at O Grade, C at H grade. I was generally near perfect at the oral comprehension tests, but very poor at speaking it.
Sharkie
Sharkie
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2:35pm, 8 Mar 2023
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'Trois bananes!' That's Jean's sœur, Colette, voicing her shock at his banana greed. BBC thing we had. The Dupont famille I think.

Best ever French is Molesworth where the monkeys are naughties and with any luck Papa will leave Armand, sissy straw hat et al, au bord de la mer.
lammo
lammo
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2:42pm, 8 Mar 2023
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I did GCSE French :-) in 1992, Tricolor books were all the rage, i was rubbish and hated it, and my teacher.

My grade reflected that.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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2:51pm, 8 Mar 2023
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McGoohan
Je did mons francais exam dans 1978. As vous can voir, je suis at le expert level maintenant.
FreshStart
FreshStart
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2:59pm, 8 Mar 2023
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I did GCSE French in 1995. I think I've still got my Tricolore textbooks somewhere.

My French oral exam was a farce. If I wasn't sure of a word in French, I switched to English but pronounced with what I hoped sounded like a French accent.

I found German a lot easier to get to grips with.
lammo
lammo
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3:03pm, 8 Mar 2023
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lammo
FreshStart that sounds very much like me, in my french oral i just couldn't remember the words, so sat there in silence looking at the teacher like a muppet :-)

Sadly i wasn't allowed to do german
Yorkshire Pie
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3:07pm, 8 Mar 2023
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Yorkshire Pie
I used tricolore too (1994 GCSE)
Diogenes
Diogenes
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3:14pm, 8 Mar 2023
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Diogenes
Le singe est dans l'arbre
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Je did mons francais exam dans 1978. As vous can voir, je suis at le expert level maintenant.


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It was a staple of my O-levels that we would be presented with six drawings telling a simple story. We then had to write that story in our best French. We were told it was a genuine part of education in France; the way French was taught in France.

I thought it was an excellent approach as everyone could write at their own level. You could play safe, or you could demonstrate your imperfect understanding of unlikely tenses.

But what was it called, please? Why did it go out of fashion? Is it ...

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