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Hi all,
Guys at work were talking about a text book from 80s for learning french, and it featured a family (cartoon I think) boy was Jean-cluade or something? Anyone remember it?
Tricolore? I can't remember what the boy was called, and this was the 90s rather than the 80s although judging by how dogeared the books were they may have been that old.
Aye, Tricolore was the textbook for my French lessons
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Hmm, Im pretty sure it was a cartoon style rather than photo
Did it have a robot calleed PMF and two spies called Boris and Serge?
If so, it was Eclair
Tricolore too.
Ecce Romani for Latin.
Le Français d'Aujourd'hui?
The family were the Bertillons?
We had D'accord at my school, it was all right.
Marsaud family ?
I seen to remember being quite fond of the elder daughter 😳
I seem to recall the Bertillons. Had a pet called Kiki? Book was covered in some god awful wall paper?
Aha! somewhatslightlydazed nailed it! Cheers guys
Jean-cluade or something
I think it was Jean-Quelque Chose
Ecce Romani for Latin.
Sextus est in horto.
somewhatslightlydazed - MemberLe Français d'Aujourd'hui?
The family were the Bertillons?
That's the one we had at school. All I remember from it was their translation of "Zut alors" which was "Drat, etc."
It was all about Caecillus the banker for me.
Cambridge Latin course. God it was dull.
One of our french teachers published a small french grammar in which he had drawn little cartoons. It was like a small notebook and had a sketch of a van (Draper's van) on the front with the number plate MMT 13 being the 13 verbs that take etre.
Descendre
Rester
Aller
Partir
Entrer
Retourner
Sortir
Venir
Arriver
Naître
Mourir
Monter
Tomber
Did anyone else ever come across it? (early-mid 90s)
Tricolore here too. Monsieur something or other!
It was compulsory to scribble on every cartoon baguette to make it into a c0*k
[quote=scaredypants said]Marsaud family ?
I seen to remember being quite fond of the elder daughter
The family Marsaud rings a bell!
As did the elder daughter I recall 😉
Painful memories of ecce romani
Jean-Claude le Clochard? He was a gentleman of the road who's cartoony exploits were used to illustrate French vocabulary to disinterested school kids all over Britain....
Painful memories of ecce romani
And they say STW isn't posh.. f*** off!
Stoner - MemberIt was all about Caecillus the banker for me.
And the oppression of the poor slaves for me, obviously.
🙂
molgrips - Member
And they say STW isn't posh.. f*** off!
North Manchester Comprehensive, innit?
Everyone did Latin in the 80's, didn't they?
Maybe in poshland they did...
Or Ancient Rome. Wait.. maybe you're just a lot older than you look?
The joys of a grammar school education.
I remember this. I think the other family was the Lafayettes.
We found a teachers' guide to the Cambridge Latin course in a classroom. It suggested that pupils would have grown fond of Caecilius over the years and learning of his death by volcano might be painful for them. It should be handled sensitively and support offered if necessary.
Caecilus died?!??! Shit a brick. No one told me. You could have broken it too me gently you bastard!
And I didnt make it to the end of the course to find out.
How about a spoiler in the thread title eh?
*dreams broken. Lights a candle for bankers everywhere* sniff.
Never mind the bankers!
Who pulled the cart out of that ditch on the way to Rome?
The bloody slaves, that's who.
'Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!'
#ripcaecilius
Caecilius est in Hades
Probare.
Eclaire with Pmmf the robot?
French was Longman's Audio Visual French 1973 featuring Jean Paul et Claudette and Monsiur Marsaud and his Madam
think these are the books the OP means
I remember Tricolore
The family dog was called Bruno
And sadly I don't remember much more of the 5 years of french I had to sit through... I regret that. 🙁
Ah the hustler has nailed it. Jean Paul est dans le jardin etc. beep!
We also did a german course with Hanz und Lieselotte. The dog was called Lumpi.
Ha
Lieselotte Maier! Mein hund heist Lumpi 🙂
Claudette's older sister was called Marie France i seem to recall...
They could really have condensed 3 years of french into one phrase, which by and large has been enough to see me through over the years!
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[quote=neil the wheel said]Ah the hustler has nailed it. Jean Paul est dans le jardin etc. beep!
We also did a german course with Hanz und Lieselotte. The dog was called Lumpi.
Yup, we had the same French/German course.
Think it was Jean Paul and Marie Claudette. Dont mind much more but defenitely Longmans audio visual.
Hummersknott Comprehensive here and we did Jean claude, Marie France et al, I seem to remember a newspaper called Depeche d'Ambiers as well. Also Lieslotte ,Lumpi and Ceacilius too. have to say when the Latin course opened in sunny Pompeii we suspected it might not end well for all concerned.
We were taught German by a talking bratwurst.
Is that what your teacher called it, Molly?
I think we used a book called La Rochelle.
Ecce Romani, Sextus puer molestus est.
Can't actually remember which French book. Explains why I can order 2 beers please in several languages but not much else!
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I always preferred Sammy Davis Jr to Dean Martin.
La famille Bertillon were knocking about in the 60s. I started secondary in 72 and our books were well thumbed/knackered by then luckily as all of the vocab was at the bottom of the pages, and Mme nutty kate couldnt work out why the fools at the back got good test marks.
Vas y gaiment anyone?
We had tricolore too, I am sure we used another book as well.
Bibliobus rings a bell.
Attention a la fenetre Phillipe! La Francais d'aujourdui. Papa worked in Orly Aeroport. The book was had a landscape format I seem to remember and was printed in blue? and red? cartoon strips I think.
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Ah yes Longmans Audio Visual was my first taste of French in the mid to late 70s. Les Marsauds - wasn't monsieur Lafayette their schoolteacher?
I remember listening to the tapes while our teacher Arthur Cox nipped into the storeroom at the back of the classroom for a fag. Poor old sod couldn't get through 40 minutes with us without a smoke.
I also encountered Caecillius as Latin was compulsory for the first two years.
Didn't do the same German course mentioned above but during many of our lessons we got plenty of (not so relevant) first-hand accounts of WW2 in Northern Italy where our teacher saw front-line action.