Re: French kids are taught poor English
Well, that make sense.
Also, in my experience, Francophone teachers teaching French are also pretty bad. As an adult, trying to learn French (not in France, but a neighbour) was frustrating.
In the first instance, I thought it was me. So I persisted. However, mercifully the teacher got knocked up (not by me), and left.
Queue second teacher, but same school: Nope, still crap. Ok, must be the materials and course then.
New school, new teacher. Better materials, learnt a bit more, but still crap. Plus no one can deal with French spoken with an Australian accent. British or American accents they hate, but can deal with. But you can see steam coming from the ears as I speak ... badly.
Anyway, last remaining common factor - me. So proceeded to pick German in a year and a bit. So ... not me.
Perhaps the Académie Française is really shit for enforcing a certain groupthink as to how a language is taught? And that hinders ALL language learning?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
