Me Talk Pretty One Day #6

David Sedaris
Non-Fiction (Biography)
Pages 181-219

David has moved to France where he will live for the next two year; therefore, he decides to take a french class because he knows vey little conversational phrases. He excpects the class to be very relaxing and informative of the french language. This is not the case, David enters into the classroom and is surround by people who are speaking french fluentially and carrying on a conversation. He starts to think this was a bad idea. As class starts the teacher enters the room and instructs a student to state his name and likes and dislikes in french once called upon. After, listening to their respondes she would bruttually insult them and yell. When it was David's turn the teacher first laughed at his responde and brought knowledge to the fact that he can't assign the proper gender to the nouns. She also informs him that even a toddler can speak better then him. For the next three months she would insult the class in words that many of them didn't know. One day she singled out David saying, "You are a fool and reward my efforts with nothing but pain, do you understand me?" For the first time David was able to understand everything she said giving hima sense of accomplishment. While in France David avoid public interaction by wearing a walkman everywhere and seeing six movies a week.

If I was David I would be intimidate too once i enter the classroom and everyone was speaking the language fluentially, but i could only say a few random nouns. I believe that the teacher methods of critzing are ineffective, but they may work because in the end David was able to understand what she said. The many engagments with the teacher shouting random french words at David, I found was very entertaing if i was in David's situation i might have ended up just cracking up. This will be my last entry about David's adventures, I have found his stories to be very funny and reccomend it to people who are looking for a good laugh.