And so it begins...

[jackshoegazer]

My first French teacher was from Switzerland and thus spoke French with a Swiss accent. My new French teacher is from Wisconsin, but learned most of her French in the Caribbean and thus speaks with a French-Caribbean accent. Weird.

Also, she said that she has connections to a summer camp in France, so if we want to spend a summer living in a castle and teaching English to little French kids, she can help us out. That would actually be pretty cool, but something tells me I couldn't bring the cats.

Apparently all the people who are still speaking French without even attempting the accent at the end of 101 don't take 102. Almost everyone in my new class had a much better accent than, well, everyone else in my first semester class.

This semester we should get into cuisine, fashion, more culture, the body, and some politics.

I did some reconnaissance and discovered my lit class is in a giant lecture hall. I should have guessed – it's a 200-level course. My lit class last semester was a 500-level course only required for English majors.

I don't know how it's possible, but the students look even younger this semester than last. Or maybe I aged a lot over break, but either way, I am having trouble shaking the idea that I'm in one of those 80's movies where the parent goes back and pretends to be a high school student.

Comments

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

Which Lit class is it?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

217, American Literature.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

I think Clark is TAing that...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

She's not the TA for my section, but I'll find out in about 20 minutes if she's a TA for the class.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha, I just saw her parade around the lecture hall.

[jesuslovesbono.livejournal.com]

i knew a German exchange exchange student who said (i think) that his first English teacher was from Nebraska, so he had a little of that kind of accent. But the only accent i noticed was German. hehe.

[jesuslovesbono.livejournal.com]

(but i'm sure there'd be a difference between his accent and the accent of a German who learned English from someone from England.)

[lipsoflove.livejournal.com]

I have been to that website before and have spent hours wondering how those men ever get laid.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[lipsoflove.livejournal.com]

Oops. Sorry, that comment was meant for your other entry - the one that mentioned the World Beard & Mustache Contest.

[labelle77.livejournal.com]

Accents are funny. I always assumed I spoke French with an American-midwestern accent until I went to France. Every person there thought that I was British. I didn't ever bother to correct them. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine from Detroit lived in France & Belgium for a year and everyone thought he was German. I wonder if Europeans assume that if you're from America you wouldn't be trying to speak the local language anyway :P

[labelle77.livejournal.com]

Ha! This is true. Our group was travelling with a group from Kentucky and they were furious when our teacher asked all the tour guides to speak French instead of English. It was also hilarious to hear (minimal, beginner) French spoken with a hillbilly accent... BAAAHHN-GUH-oooooooooRRR! cumma-taaaaalayzzz voooooozzzz?

[meisjekim.livejournal.com]

i am quite upset with myself because i used to be completely fluent in french while i was in high school, due to a really good french teacher. afterwards however i have never needed to speak french so i totally lost the ability. i can hardly read it and can just manage to ask directions in french haha

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Hell, I lost 15 weeks of French during a 3-week winter break :P

I guess you'll just have to go to France for a few years til it comes back!