Loading ...I hope your daughters retained their French. They probably wouldn’t of had a accent. I was learning German at that age from a relative and a little French from my grandfather who was also Scottish from his french Scottish father. A little Scottish words too. Don’t remember them now. I held on to counting to 10 in German I learned as a tot but forgot that too except the first two lol
If they were keeping it up as they get older you have to watch what they are reading. By 15-16 I was fluent so started getting anything in French I could find to keep it up. I dropped French four because I was already fluent and the class seemed boring. Should of stayed because it was more learning about French customs and phrases. As you know people can pick up a word or phrase and not know what it means. For instance Sacre bleu or sacred blue meant they were cursing their flag. As you know one of the colors. I picked up French magazines at school and they look like our house type magazines but Included adult content. That was in the late 60s. They had articles in it like Dr Ruth the sex therapist. I was really surprised they had them in public magazines. A lot of jokes then revolved around sex although funny. It’s good though it makes you more aware at that age when a girl may have no clue what some guys were up to although that wasn’t fool proof. Guess it was the time of the revolution.
What I noticed was the way they talk now seems different than the way they did them. If I watch old movies I can recognize the words even if I don’t remember the meaning and pick up words, but the new movies not as easily. I guess each generation has their own way of talking.
Alex
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