Did anybody else here take French in college/H.S.?

[arcadian]

Does anybody remember a learning series on video of a family and they all spoke elementary French. There were two sisters and the older sister was dating some dude and the little sister was kind of braty and always getting into trouble. I think one of the episodes was them losing the keys to a scooter. Then at the end of the episode they would show stills of what happened and ask questions.

[lizziegrace]

1. I remember that as a PBS series

damned if I can remember the name of it. Lelapin took French for 4 years in HS and at least 2 in college. I'll send her this link.

:hi:

[arcadian]

4. That sounds about right. It was very PBSy

That's funny. It took me a while to "get" Lelapin's username. First I thought it was a made Tolkeinesque name or something. It was only when I separated the Le did I get it. :D

[lizziegrace]

10. Hehe...

Now she's LadyOfTheRabbits (LOTR). Turns out you weren't that far off! ;)

[Orrex]

8. .

Merde. Wrong place.

[Critters2]

2. I minored in French, but our language labs, both hs and college,

only used audio, no video. I do remember whole portions of the dialogues, though.

Allez! Ne discoutes pas tout le temps!

[femmocrat]

3. Oui. I remember it, too.

I don't remember what it was called though!

[flvegan]

5. 4 1/2 years of French, and no.

Never saw that. Sounds spiffy, though.

[arcadian]

6. Oh man, it was

They explored the relationship between the girl and her boyfriend. And of course she was magnifique

[KamaAina]

7. No.

I took it in junior high. After I had already completed the Spanish curriculum several weeks ahead of schedule. :P

This was in Westport, Conn., Martha Stewart's former diggings, where foreign language instruction in 7th grade is de rigueur.

[Orrex]

9. Every het guy who remembers that series remembers it for one reason

Maybe two.


French in Action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_in_action

[lizziegrace]

11. That's it!!!

:)

[arcadian]

16. You are my hero.

That's it! Mireille, ahh, Mireille.

[Orrex]

18. Glad to be of service

I believe that photo, incidentally, is from the episode that every het guy remembers.

Check out this link, by the way:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html

And the featured image at the top-right of your screen is likewise from that episode.

[VenusRising]

12. It was called "French in Action"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_in_Action

It comes on the Public Learning Channel here. Well, at least it used to.

[Orrex]

13. Pffft. That's SOOOOOO five minutes ago.

:evilgrin:

[VenusRising]

14. No...that's called

Fashionably late.

:P

[Orrex]

15. Doh! I always screw that up!

:hi:

[VenusRising]

17. It's in my French genes.

I'm ALWAYS fashionably late. :rofl:

:hi:

[Orrex]

19. Excuse me, but I wasn't trying to get into your genes

I mean, we've barely even met. You French women sure do cut right to the chase!

[VenusRising]

20. ROFL!

:toast:

[Lil Missy]

21. I took French in both HS and college. I don't recall that, but we did read "Le Petit Prince".

Maybe I'm just old. Back then a foreign language was mandatory.

[arcadian]

23. We read that en francais

Also, Les Miserables, Candide, Gargantua. Le Compte De Monte Cristo, and various Moliere and Guy de Maupassant. :hi:

[jobycom]

22. I remember having a crush on the older sister.

Muy Caliente! (Yeah, I didn't pay enough attention to say it in French.)

[Gabi Hayes]

27. Mireille, je t'aime BEAUCOUP.

In many scenes in French in Action, "Mireille" appears braless, in the same way that "Stéphanie," her character from the 1985 French film À nous les garçons<2> does. This generated some controversy at the time and was condemned as "sexist" by feminists at Yale University.<3>

Allain was featured in the November 1988 edition of Playboy in "Stars of the Cinema in 1988."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rie_Allain


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019859/

if you do some googling, you might find some interesting pictures of her

[bluedigger]

24. Oui!

Three years in h.s. One semester in college.

Life?

Two years in Germany.

Half a year in Puerto Rico.

French?

Merde!

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Me! Started taking French in junior high...

It was called "Conversational French" and we had these 45 records of conversations that we had to memorize to learn the language. The ones that stick in my mind were about asking directions to the library (Où est la bibliothèque?) and about someone breaking his leg (Je me suis cassé ma jambe...). Anybody else remember these? :D

[Silver Swan]

26. In high school

I remember a tape story that started out:

"Taxi, taxi"

"Pas libre, dommage.."

Pardon, Mademoiselle, ou allez vous?"

"Quinze rue Jacob, mais.."

"Je passe par la, permittez mois je vous conduir."

(Of course this was 45 years ago, so I apologize for my forgotten French.)

[CreekDog]

28. oh yes i remember

:boring:

i took French for countless years starting in 1st grade and ending in 11th.

i think there was only 1 year i didn't take French and took Spanish instead (3rd grade I think).

on the bright side, i found i could read Italian and Spanish without too much trouble after all those years of a Latin based language.

well i could read it then, ha, not so much now. :wtf: