No, it isn’t. The French are so asshole about languages that are not French, it is amazing.
The French teachers at our kid’s school had serious penis envy because English is the first tier foreign language here, while French is only a second tier one.
We had a French teacher who wanted to fail our son, claiming that “French is the subject that shows if you are actually smart enough for advanced schooling” - my son had the equivalent of A to A+ in all subjects but sport, arts, and French. His English teachers considered him “native speaker level”, so it was not an issue of having problems with foreign languages. But obviously all this had nothing to do with the crappy teaching methods they used that made even French native speaker students fail…
French teachers can be a cock sometimes, it’s 100% true. In the end of it, French grammar is far more specific than other languages, so there’s a bit of a need to be persistent and persnickety; native speaking French classes during school are noteworthy for being hard for that reason. They don’t really take the Japanese/Mandarin approach and drill you to death, instead they’ll just kinda mock you for things they think you should know. It’s super important to find a French teacher that will be detail oriented, but not a cock about it.
No, it isn’t. The French are so asshole about languages that are not French, it is amazing.
The French teachers at our kid’s school had serious penis envy because English is the first tier foreign language here, while French is only a second tier one.
We had a French teacher who wanted to fail our son, claiming that “French is the subject that shows if you are actually smart enough for advanced schooling” - my son had the equivalent of A to A+ in all subjects but sport, arts, and French. His English teachers considered him “native speaker level”, so it was not an issue of having problems with foreign languages. But obviously all this had nothing to do with the crappy teaching methods they used that made even French native speaker students fail…
French teachers can be a cock sometimes, it’s 100% true. In the end of it, French grammar is far more specific than other languages, so there’s a bit of a need to be persistent and persnickety; native speaking French classes during school are noteworthy for being hard for that reason. They don’t really take the Japanese/Mandarin approach and drill you to death, instead they’ll just kinda mock you for things they think you should know. It’s super important to find a French teacher that will be detail oriented, but not a cock about it.