“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or why we need to talk about slang.
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“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or why we need to talk about slang. There’s a well-known saying: “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.” This applies to the study of foreign languages. Even when you’ve studied a language for years, you can get in trouble, because we don’t get taught slang in school—or at least we didn’t back in the Stone Age when I was a kid. I took French through my sophomore year of college, and was reading Moliere, but none of my teachers or professors told me something I
“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or why we need to talk about slang.
“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or…
“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or why we need to talk about slang.
“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or why we need to talk about slang. There’s a well-known saying: “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.” This applies to the study of foreign languages. Even when you’ve studied a language for years, you can get in trouble, because we don’t get taught slang in school—or at least we didn’t back in the Stone Age when I was a kid. I took French through my sophomore year of college, and was reading Moliere, but none of my teachers or professors told me something I