French and German Lessons

Radio Record, 11 March 1938, Page 25

French and German Lessons

SPRERUQUCUESUDESEUDUOCRGQQEREUCOROEEQEOELAEOSREGSRUTER A FEW years ago, if | remember rightly, the main Australian radio stations presented a most instructive series of lessons in speaking French. As there are now so many foreign radio stations easily received on short wave in New Zealand, my suggestion is that a quar-~ ter to half an hour of the National Stations’ time every week be devoted to spoken French-or German -lessons, given by some expert DSULELDDSUUDERDSUSUSNGODDORRLULTUECGEUSURSOUSRER TENTS

PEDERUEUERERDSEURULEQUCGUREDQEUEUSDODEOORGEOTES linguist, preferably a Frenchmanor German-as the correct accent is most important. So many people can read or write French, but lack the ability to understand the language when it is spoken by a Frenchman (e.g. over Radio Coloniale) that I’m sure the sessions would be much appreciated. And after all there’s always the commercials and the alternatives for those who would DUPPUREEEUD CREE EELS EER EDL E POLES

sooner stick to English.-

Frenchy

(Marlborough).