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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CF Rebel who wrote (113096)	9/16/2011 9:29:31 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

I soft pedaled my writing a little. So let me back up--------yes all teachers should be fluent in English. My first experiences with teachers who weren't fluent in English was at the college level not at the high school level as you experienced. In college I never did learn to speak French. This was due partially to the teachers who taught the French classes having come to America for protection. They were all very intelligent people who came here after WWII. The first was a German woman who used bright red lipstick with her blond hair that stood in all directions. She spoke with a very thick German accent------- she knew the structure of the French language;however, she did know how to speak either English or French well. (I did learn a lot about Germany because she loved to talk about where she was during WWII.) I learned the structure for French for reading but never learned to hold a conversation in French. Next was a German man referred to as Dr.------again he understood the structure of the language but spoke so low that we had trouble hearing him.Teaching French was not what he was trained to do. Somehow we made it through reading The Little Prince in French under the Doctor. Ah, the next year was the French Exchange Student who came from Paris as an Assistant. Yes that is when we learned to speak French and learned a lot about the French culture. The last experience with French was a year with a Dr. from Hungary------his family had a horrific and fascinating story of escaping from Hungary. So the first few classes were listening to his story -----he would tell his story and cry. That's when I learned that a man could cry. I did learn to read French; however I never learned to speak French well. I was simply fulfilling a requirement to study a foreign language for graduation. Yes, if I had had instructors fluent in English as well as French I might have learned to speak French. In high school and elementary I never had teachers who were not fluent in English . Thus, I did not experience what you experienced. There was no language barrier for math, physics, Chemistry to overcome. What you experienced should not have occurred-------nor should it occur now. mj