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Title: U.S. firm to teach French to Canadians
Category: Political
Posted By: leewgrant
Date: 2009-09-30 05:29:57
Canadian

[leewgrant]

$1:

The company will provide full-time and part-time courses to small classes of Canadian Forces members stationed at the North American Aerospace Defence Command headquarters in Colorado.

The students will find little chance to practice their French outside the classroom. Only 0.3 per cent of Colorado residents speak French at home, according U.S. census records, and that includes those who speak Patois, Cajun and Creole.

The answer is simple - two weeks in Colorado followed up with two weeks in Trois Pistoles.

[martin14]

Ya know, thats pretty fucking sad, to be learning French in Colorado,
being taught by Americans.

In Czechoslovakia, they had a pretty good solution for this situation:

Slovak soldiers did their military service on the Czech side,

while Czech soldiers were stationed in Slovakia for periods of time.


I had always hoped the CF would do the same, guess I was wrong.

As far as an American company being the only one able to do it,
thats even more wrong.

I'll come home and set up the program, if someone can point me
in the right direction to get the contract....