21 Nov
2012
21 Nov
'12
3:35 p.m.
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When my Mum was studying French recently, she had a
book called
something like "English grammar for French students", i.e. teaching
anglophones to recognize parts of speech in *English* first, so they
can then do so in while studying French. I remarked quite grumpily
that she ought to have learnt that in school.
Yes, exactly. My understanding is that in France itself, this is all taught in
primary school.