Talk about getting caught with your foot in your mouth. French education minister Luc Chatel issued a press release for the first day of school last week and whaddaya know? It was full of spelling errors and grammatical faults. Spoon fed this, the press had a field day. If your French is better than mine, see if you can correct the errors in these passages published on-line by Le Point:
- "La rèforme de l'enseignement primaire, qui est entré en application à la rentrée 2008, s'appuie sur des horaires et des Les programmes, redéfinis par arrêtés du 9 juin 2008 qui s'articulent avec les sept grandes compétences du socle commun."
- "En 2009 se sont 214.289 élèves qui ont suivi... "
- "Ces formations concerneront prioritairement les enseignants qui exercent pour la première fois en école maternelles ."
A corrected press release was promptly reissued.
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If we had competent ministers, that would be a known thing (well, to be honest we have a couple, except that they're not competent in the field where they are ministers)...
As far as the spelling mistakes in the text, if I tell which ones they are I'd spoil the fun of the non-natives right away...
It would seem that Monsieur Chatel should hire himself a proof reader.
I can spot some of the errors, but not being fluent in French, I know there are some that I've overlooked. Could you post a link to the corrected version or perhaps add it to another post?
Merci.
Harriet: You asked for it, you got it. From the corrected release.
- La réforme de l’enseignement primaire, qui est entrée en application à la rentrée 2008, s’appuie sur des horaires et des programmes, redéfinis par arrêtés du 9 juin 2008 qui s’articulent avec les sept grandes compétences du socle commun.
- En 2009, 214 290 élèves ont suivi 38 940 stages.
- Ces formations concerneront prioritairement les enseignants qui exercent pour la première fois en école maternelle.
Whew!
Is it just me, or did they misspell the word 'application'?
Incroyable et lamentable
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