Originally Posted By: Jackie
Luke, I had the same experience of even foreign languages teachers* having to learn it first, and I wonder if it is due to geography: we in the middle of the U.S. got significant numbers of immigrants far later than coastal areas?
*With the exception of my college professor who was French-Canadian, and warned us that her French wasn't Parisian.


I likewise taught French for a number of years, hearing it only on movies or recordings, and based on what
my teacher had taught. Having had the opportunity to visit Quebec I had the most difficult time understanding
what was being said. I could read and speak, but not understand, it was most frustrating.

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