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minus-squarekurcatovium@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前School exchange trip. One week in French family, one week French kid in our family. “My” exchange student couldn’t make two words in english, literally. In high school. How was that possible IDK. His younger brother was the same.
minus-squareServais@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前Probably because they lived in rural France with unskilled English teachers
minus-squarekurcatovium@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前It was rural, but still like 30 km to Strasbourgh, so it was not end of the world…
minus-squareServais@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Alsace is known to be quite rural, 30km from Strasbourg could be far remote already. Did they speak Alsacian by any chance? I know older people had it as a first language a few generations ago
How did you end up there?
School exchange trip. One week in French family, one week French kid in our family.
“My” exchange student couldn’t make two words in english, literally. In high school. How was that possible IDK. His younger brother was the same.
Probably because they lived in rural France with unskilled English teachers
It was rural, but still like 30 km to Strasbourgh, so it was not end of the world…
Alsace is known to be quite rural, 30km from Strasbourg could be far remote already.
Did they speak Alsacian by any chance? I know older people had it as a first language a few generations ago