From Vienna to Phnom Penh, French as a foreign language teachers tell Le Figaro about the difficulty of juggling between the language of writing and that of everyday life. “ Students spend years learning French.
They arrive in France, and don’t understand it!’’ laughs Juliette Morin, French teacher in Cambodia. � “The Italians write as they pronounce. But in French, what is written in the manual is very different from reality’