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On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:57:55 +0000
Sacha wrote: On 7/2/06 14:24, in article , "Nick Maclaren" wrote: snip In particular, if you have not learnt to hear certain sounds by the age of 5 or so, you probably never will - even if you have an early hearing problem that is later corrected. I don't know if this is correct but I was told some years ago that the Lycée International won't accept anyone who did not start to learn French by the age of four. This was told me by someone who had been through that system and he said that this was because after that age it is 'impossible' to learn to pronounce French as the French themselves speak it. Gaah! Trying desperately to stay out of this OT stuff, this time! I'm not sure which lycée you're referring to, Sacha, but that is certainly not true at any of the Lycées Internationals that I've come across. My kids were at the Lycée Laperouse in San Francisco, which is one of the ecoles homologuées in the network, and they certainly would except non-French speakers up to sixieme; after that French was required but I never heard of a beginning age requirement. We have some Greek/Spanish friends whos kids were in the Lycée International in Palma, they entered later, and it seemed to be a very cosmopolitan student body. This said, I don't doubt that at least to some extent each school can set it's own rules, maybe your acquaintance's school was particular in this respect. The Lycée system is great because if you move a lot, your kids can pick up in a new city basically on the next page of the same textbook. They really do all march in lock-step. And as they are about 40% in English, they turn out perfectly bi-lingual teenagers, bless 'em. Now, off to prepare some of those strange concoctions for dinner! (OK, actually I'll probably take some of last years broccoli out of the freezer. There, back on topic.) -E -- Emery Davis You can reply to ecom by removing the well known companies |
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