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Article #1283Re: Federal hirings: 71% francophone, promotions: 68% francophone
From: News
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:06
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:06
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> I know what you mean, growing up I hated the French classes and found them
> to be useless, which they were. But now, I could speak, read and write it
> and the funny thing is that I learnt it on the street, not bored out of my
> skull in school.
> I've always been different when it came down to learning other languages,
> I'd learn to speak before reading and writing - that always came later on.
> Perhaps that is the problem in learning another language, to learn reading
> and writing before speaking.
That's funny because Spanish was the opposite for me. Reading and
Writing is a breeze for me, but I always get a little tense when I have to
speak. Or at least for the first minute or so of a conversation. Then when
I realize that I do actually know what I'm doing, things go smoothly!
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