Diary of a house sale disaster

morg_monster

je voudrais un cafe et un sandwich fromage s'il vous plait

I think that even if you don't take it all in at the time though, it is still useful to have learned it. EG when you go to france you can at least say please and thank you... and maybe "where is the museum?"; its better than nothing...

steadysaver

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't think th is would work. Think back to your school days.... how many people could be dropped in France and order a coffee and a cheese sandwich in French?

You don't take much in at school, moreso for things that are mathematical/financial in manner, most would just be sat there watching the clock. Those that took it in then would have forgotten it by the time they're 18-21 and borrowing.

I must say maths was my fav subject at school and I certainly took it all in. Hence I ended up taking a maths based degree (Engineering). Not everyone is so unintersted in learning as some people think and people should be given the chance to prove this.

Even if it shocks just one or two kids into changing their spending habits

lostinrates

I would have loved a basic financial education at school. The way not to forget it is to start it young and make it progressive. How great would it be if we had learned at 8 to sva ea portion of our pocket money, at fourteen about managing tax free savings into adulthood at 16 about pension planning and more serious budgeting and 18about more challenging and risky investments!

They introduced a thing called lifeskills while I was at school and it was genuinely useless. Fitting a plug and managing money would have infinitely more useful.

Guy_Montag

I agree it's not financial tuition people need, just good maths. It's too fashionable to claim to be innumerate; if people claimed to be illiterate in the same way they would be pitied.

Ou se trouve le musee, s'il vous plait? :cool:

PasturesNew

morg_monster wrote: »

je voudrais un cafe et un sandwich fromage s'il vous plait

I think that even if you don't take it all in at the time though, it is still useful to have learned it. EG when you go to france you can at least say please and thank you... and maybe "where is the museum?"; its better than nothing...

Buyez mois une sammich.
Avec pickle et un picklee onion.

Muchez ta.

I learnt French at school, got an O level. But I've never been abroad so never used it.

dhassen

Some schools do include some financial education within PSHE.

It's a great idea...... not everyone forgets everything the learnt in school. I remember loads of the stuff

PasturesNew

Guy_Montag wrote: »

I agree it's not financial tuition people need, just good maths. It's too fashionable to claim to be innumerate; if people claimed to be illiterate in the same way they would be pitied.

Ou se trouve le musee, s'il vous plait? :cool:

I'd have gone with a simple: Ou est la musee. I'd have not known it was a "le" and wouldn't have used the "se trouve" form of "where will I find the museum" I'd have kept it as "where is..."

My very very first French homework I got one word wrong. Right in the middle of it all I'd put La kitchen instead of La cuisine.

PasturesNew

dhassen wrote: »

Some schools do include some financial education within PSHE.

It's a great idea...... not everyone forgets everything the learnt in school. I remember loads of the stuff

What is PSHE?

dhassen

Personal, Health and Social Education

morg_monster

"Ou se trouve le musee, s'il vous plait? "
"where does one find the museum?"
ooh fancy - I would go for a more basic "ou est le musee?".
(Haha PN - great minds)

Although the correct answer would then be "quel musee? you're in paris you english muppet there's about a hundred of them, you'll have to be more specific than that".