your story with english

[أحمد بوفاريك]

Well, I enjoyed reading all your stories, every story is different than other.
My story with English it's a little bit different too.

It started when I was at my fourth grad of primary school, I was 10, in our town -Boufarik- we had three schools they had some a unique experience and my old school -Oumu Salama- was one of them.
We had the choice to choose between French or English as a foreign lang_uage, so I want to my dad and I asked him about what I should choose, he told me look son, I can not choose for you, but I will help you to take the right choice, so he told me about French and how it's a limited lang_uage, just a few people who talk with it, and how English how it's an international lang_uage and how most people speak English, honestly I gave a whole conference, I can remember it, I was just ten

So I took my decision and I choosed my first foreign lang_uage as English , I thought I will be alone there, but we were about 37 students, we had the most lovely English teacher ever Miss Zhour, she was ... honestly I need so much time to explain how she was wonderful, and how she educated us before she taught us, she is amazing teacher, I never forget her.
I can not forget that lovely time, when I met new people and they ask me about school, and when they ask me about French, I answer them "I'm sorry I don't speak French" most of them asked me this question "why !! because they don't let you, right!!" - For people who don't know about the life at the 90's in Algeria, some places here in Algeria, some people they were not okay about learning foreign lang_uage, specially French, their reason is because foreigners are unbelieving people, so I know many people from my generation who didn't learn French for many years, some of theme they learned it until high school- returning to me now, well my answer about their question "why you don't speak French" it will be " because I speak English" you can not imagine the look at their faces, "a little boy as you can speak English ... wow that's amazing, you must be a genius, speak to me in English" well, I just say the usual "My name is Ahmed I'm ten, I live ..." they open their mouths and say "wow" we were kings, sometimes I pass by a coffee house or some public place, and they call me "hey boy come here ... speak to this person in English, I told him that you could but he didn't believe" so I say the usual magical words " Hello, my name is Ahmed I'm ten, I live ... bla bla bla" hahah great time anyway I can remember many things about English I have a looooooooooooooooong story with it, maybe next time I will tell you about something else.

May Allah bless you all,

Salam

[Karim-Rap-4-Life]

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For people who don't know about the life at the 90's in Algeria, some places here in Algeria, some people they were not okay about learning foreign lang_uage, specially French, their reason is because foreigners are unbelieving people, so I know many people from my generation who didn't learn French for many years, some of theme they learned it until high school-

I know exactly what are you talking about, I guess it was not to forbid it all! it was to reduce using it Doesn't it........look now the mess we live in due to the French aaah I hate this....sometimes I just wonder why all that why they mess with our education sometimes ppl study in arabic in secondary school when they go to the university they find it in French and sometimes the contrary in some modules, Normally we study French as a foreign ******** not to use it in our daily life or in the administration


They don't give the Child in the primary school the opportunity to learn his mothertongue even and in 2nd year they teach him French what the hell is this when I remember this I lose my mind I guess they were right about this coz Algeria was going to be French one.......take a child from CEM and ask him to write a paragraphe in Arabic .....See the level
auogol said it .....we'll be back after 50 years
and they say 50 years of Independency hhhhhhhh I laugh at this too much we still independent culturally, Politiccally, Invisibally and Allah knows i'm neither that good at politic nor I love it but to see what happen I wonder why El3arbi ben mhidi is a myrtiar now is not to fight France and french
If he would be alive did he love French in primary schools from 2 nd grade!!!!! or french in everywhere!
If yes I'm reasonable If not yes I'm reasonable coz I'm sure

Thank you ^^ I liked your story