"How learning French changed my life" w/ Yale's Alice Kaplan

Yale Professor Alice Kaplan, in conversation with Pamela Druckerman
Alice Kaplan is chair of the French department at Yale and author of the memoir "French Lessons" and the nonfiction book "Dreaming in French: The Paris Years ofJacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis." Alice discovered theFrench language in tenth grade, at a boarding school in Geneva.
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[@kacie501]

We learned so much from Alice Kaplan, my daughter did a living wax museum and is very proud to have represented her works.

[@alisonlutton9378]

I love this and so appreciate this approach to teaching and understanding languages ... I took Latin and then French when it a foreign language was still required in public school and for university admission, 1960s. I wanted to love it but all I really remember of Latin is that the teacher always opened with something to which we all responded, “bene wall-a-we gratias, et tu?” And all I remember of French is that I failed over and over again to say the “ou” sound when we were all required to read aloud some sentence that included the name Raoul. Americans desperately need good teachers of “foreign” languages.

[@paulhorn27]

French has been an escape for me too in the present state of our American society. However, my French is not yet strong enough to recognize how Jackie Kennedy's french has a schoolgirl quality. Could someone elaborate on that for me, please?

[@abderzakzouai9954]

Madame avec tous mon respect une chose pourquoi aujourd'hui aucun parle de la Palestine il y a des massacres abominable vue la guerre des Ukrainiens je pleure pour les grands passeur de l'humanité

[@thomasblumenthal2557]

tears are poems and poems eventualy rule their worlds. we weep with and for you... and not unlike you perhaps we too are powerless utterly