We basically have the same kind of people with french over here. Where when I was studying education, we had to pay an exam, sourced by a private entity which sucked ass. We had to study old expressions that no one ever uses, either written or talked. We had to know how to use a verb in the "passé composé" which are sometimes used with a pronoun.

I remember being enrolled into an "french oral practice class" because I was late on the curriculum and the teacher doing it was a fucking European, like "that was the standard French we had to aspire to". Mind you I'm in North America, I'll let you guess where. Also in the class where a lot of migrants "coincidentally" from north and west Africa.

Also a couple of us white folks with a stronger provincial accent (diphtong and africation) had a test where we had to talk about our family, and I think I failed that because of the kinda strong diphtong I do.

Whatever, I never finished the program.

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