Here’s a good question. Our two semesters of French, what was your “French Name” for use in class? I know I was “Pascale”…
I’m 100% sure I remember waaaaay less than you. Taking Spanish in college certainly didn’t help my retention…
I don’t remember which name was for which semester, but I’m pretty sure I got saddled with Genevieve one semester since it’s the French equivalent of my actual name, and I chose Eponine - possibly second semester - because I figured out how awesome Les Miserables was. And until you asked me this I had completely forgotten about our “French names”!
MWAHAHAHA!!!
Yeah, I’m almost certain my first year was something starting with an “L” because of my online username back then being “Lycorne” and not being allowed to use it of the French “Licorne”.
I can’t recall either of yours, but Genevieve certainly sounds right. I would almost swear second semester we at least seriously considered picking the shortest girls names we could find in the back of the book partially for ease and partially to fuck with the teacher and then decided all the 3~4 letter girls names were awful.
I’m pretty sure most of what we did in that class was aimed at fucking with the teacher. Well, that and cementing an awesome friendship!
You had to pity her. We sat in our corner chatting and drawing and some times blatantly turned around ignoring her for some brief interaction, and her practice was to call on us to read or speak in order to embarrass the misbehavior out of her students, but we would just turn around and give her the answer then go back to our nonsense five minutes later. We were total miscreants and she couldn’t do much about it because we consistently scored highest in the class so we were clearly learning the material. I swear I don’t know how we got away with it some days.
After a year of not having a choice in being called Christine (grrr, my name starts with a K and I’m proud of it!), I talked my 9th grade teacher into letting me go by Sabine (because the Three Musketeers movie is a guilty pleasure)
Here’s a good question. Our two semesters of French, what was your “French Name” for use in class? I know I was “Pascale”…
I’m 100% sure I remember waaaaay less than you. Taking Spanish in college certainly didn’t help my retention…
I don’t remember which name was for which semester, but I’m pretty sure I got saddled with Genevieve one semester since it’s the French equivalent of my actual name, and I chose Eponine - possibly second semester - because I figured out how awesome Les Miserables was. And until you asked me this I had completely forgotten about our “French names”!
MWAHAHAHA!!!
Yeah, I’m almost certain my first year was something starting with an “L” because of my online username back then being “Lycorne” and not being allowed to use it of the French “Licorne”.
I can’t recall either of yours, but Genevieve certainly sounds right. I would almost swear second semester we at least seriously considered picking the shortest girls names we could find in the back of the book partially for ease and partially to fuck with the teacher and then decided all the 3~4 letter girls names were awful.
Here’s a good question. Our two semesters of French, what was your “French Name” for use in class? I know I was “Pascale” (because my first programming language, fuck yeah) for one of the two classes, and I remember that was after Mrs. Broadway shot down “Licorne” and tried to suggest “Lilliane” because it was “close”. She also wouldn’t let me pick a boy’s name unless it was blatantly gender neutral. LOL. We were her best scoring students, but we goofed off and pushed every line we could find in there. Poor thing. I loved her though.
Anyone else remember this film? I probably should not have been watching this when I was 8~10 years old in-between “The Last Unicorn” and “Flight of Dragons”.
It has a lot of interesting messages and themes that are still relevant today. “Propaganda” is a weapon used in a fashion not unlike a tank or carpet bombing, and that is interesting.
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Guess how much high school French I remember. XD
