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Andyp wrote:That is so true. When I see the way that my girls (they were 6 and 3 when we arrived in France) have been taught french.
Woodbloke wrote:
I digress; not only were we taught proper English grammar 'ad nauseam' but I can vividly remember being teached how to write properly, which was Victorian Copperplate! I suppose I must have been one of last little oicks who was taught how write like that...I wish I still could - Rob
Phil Pascoe wrote:Andyp wrote:That is so true. When I see the way that my girls (they were 6 and 3 when we arrived in France) have been taught french.
Young children learn so easily. I remember reading a letter from a woman (after someone had told her different languages were confusing) saying her three year old spoke fluent English to her, fluent Danish to her father and fluent Welsh to all her friends.
Malc2098 wrote:Forced to use copy books to to do so; the sort that had a line printed in roundhand and you had to copy it ten times below.
Phil Pascoe wrote:Malc2098 wrote:Forced to use copy books to to do so; the sort that had a line printed in roundhand and you had to copy it ten times below.
We had special lines books that we had to use if given lines. We had to buy them. They had a wide line, a narrow line, a wide line, a narrow line and so on. Every letter had to touch the top and bottom of the narrow line with every "tail" touching the line above or below it. Every letter not touching got you another ten lines.
(A favourite punishment was a four hundred word essay about the inside of a ping pong ball.)
Phil Pascoe wrote:Young children learn so easily. I remember reading a letter from a woman (after someone had told her different languages were confusing) saying her three year old spoke fluent English to her, fluent Danish to her father and fluent Welsh to all her friends.
Alf wrote:. It was only at boarding school...
Alf wrote:One was shaken from sleep at an ungodly hour, presented with pencil and paper, and instructed to start at the letter A in the dictionary and write out the definitions of any word of six letters or more until it was time for breakfast. An effective combination of sleep deprivation, concentration, and tedium.
Alf wrote:It's funny, Rob, I actually quite enjoyed the first coupla of years. It was only when the school started to making poor decisions based on trying to solve its financial problems that it went downhill. A succession of mergers with other small and failing schools eventually saw its demise, I believe.
Alf wrote:It's funny, Rob, I actually quite enjoyed the first coupla of years. It was only when the school started to making poor decisions based on trying to solve its financial problems that it went downhill. A succession of mergers with other small and failing schools eventually saw its demise, I believe.
Vann wrote:One of my favourite dislikes is the use of 12am or 12pm. Is 12am the minute after 11:59am or the minute before 12:01am? There's no such time as far as I'm concerned. It's 12 noon or 12 midnight - or you can do what my employer does (using the 24 hour clock) 23:59 or 00:01 for midnight.
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