U.S. firm to teach French to Canadians

Political | 206684 hits | Sep 30 5:29 am | Posted by: leewgrant

After receiving poor reviews for its record on bilingualism, the Department of National Defence plans to hire a U.S. company to give French lessons to Canadian Forces personnel stationed in Colorado.

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by leewgrant
Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:33 pm
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.
by martin14
Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:17 pm
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....

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