It’s a grey morning definitely in need of a few smiles.
We have both just sniggered a bit. Trying to help Hawklad with his school at home day. It’s French. I’m not much help really. German yes I could help. Speaking gibberish certainly could help. French not really. It doesn’t help that French is one of the subjects that he isn’t getting much support with these days. So he often just has to look at the online class chat system. It’s sometimes used in class and can give at least an indication of what the lesson is supposed to be all about. Maybe even provide some of the questions the class are working on. Well that’s the theory…..
This morning no set work provided so all he can do is crack on with other subjects or find things to learn about and wait… Today he was researching the American Civil Rights movement while waiting for anything from French. Then a class comment was posted.
ma belle-mère a bu trop de champagne et ma grand-mère est tombée du cgair.
“Oh my….Dad. Whats that supposed to be”
Wow is there anything else.
“No Dad just that. Any ideas apart from it’s about a Grand Mother and a Step Mum”
It surely can’t be what I think it means. Have a go at translating it with your dictionary
“Dad it means thanks to Google “My step mum has drunk too much booze and my grandmother has clearly been at it as well and fallen off the chair…. “
Yes I thought it kinda did mean that.
“Ok Dad as given my family world I am unlikely to need those French words, can I ignore it and get back to Martin Luther King.”
Yes you certainly can……
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
This is totally insane!
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It is
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😱
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🙏
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Hopeless
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Definitely
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Tell him to look up and read what Howard Zinn
American historian says. He tells the full story and doesn’t whitewash history.
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I will. Wrote that on the planner.
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At least it was engaging?!?
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Very…
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That’s quite a French class!
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Must have been
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Well the holy nuns would never have tolerated that! I love that he is learning about American Civil Rights. I’m not sure they teach it here. No idea what they teach these days.
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Wow. Smart fellow!
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Takes after his mum.
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Hawklad sure has a point in every way but the idea of translating that sentence was funny.
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Made us snigger
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Was that serious? That is what the kids get to work on?
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It’s staggering
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🤦🏻♀️
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❤️
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Maybe someone was trying to be funny? I know I probably would have chuckled a little interpreting that – and then wait for an explanation.
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It was funny.
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Maybe they were studying the French Royal family??😂😂
💌💌💌
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That’s some royal family ❤️❤️❤️
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🤣😂🤣😂
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❤️
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Fun fact: The French equivalent of “when pigs fly” translates literally as, “when chickens have lips.”
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How cool is that
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For fun, I used to write, “N’avez pas de la peur des haricots verts,” on university blackboards. “Don’t be afraid of green beans” is hardly profound, but watching people react to it was entertaining.
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That’s the stuff of revolutions
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I dislike grey day.. that is just so wrong. …
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It is
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😔
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C’est la vie!
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It is. C’est la vie is also a fine pop song.
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How is using that sentence in a french lesson considered actually learning something? xo
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