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On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:16:29 +0000
Sacha wrote: On 7/2/06 16:32, in article , "Emery Davis" wrote: [] 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. Could be, Emery. He was Australian but he was a bit of a conceited wind up merchant so for all I know, it was a load of codswallop. Well, sounds like he graduated from French high school! 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. It sounds excellent, IMO, though I have no experience of it myself. When my half French nieces lived in Thailand, they went to the Ecole deux langues (if I remember that name correctly) and were perfectly suited, being bilingual to start with. They speak both French and English so well that they can start a sentence in one language and finish it in the other and of course, their accents are perfect in both - sickening. ;-) The international system is indeed excellent, usually better than the schools here, with a few notable exceptions. I'm sad to say I've had to take my kids out of the local village school this fall, where they were 3 years together in a class (which has some advantages), due to the suicide of the headmaster. Anyway my kids now miss no opportunity to correct my accent. And speak remarkably little franglais, considering how much my wife and I do... The little, uh, darlings. 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 Bravo! ;-) I did get to make it a little concocting, by retrieving a bag of frozen cepes from this fall too. It was an incredible mushroom bounty this year, no one had ever seen the like of it. We were cutting 5 kilos of cepes (boletus ed.) in 20 minutes, all within 200 yards of the house! Went on like that for weeks. -E -- Emery Davis You can reply to ecom by removing the well known companies |
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