Commentaires sur : Bienvenue à tous! http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/ the internet watering hole for fans of the "French in Action" language video course Thu, 17 May 2012 04:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Par : Jim Boorsch http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-1026 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:28:03 +0000 #comment-1026 RI can mail you a 1990 letter from my father which explains the whole thing. Please get in touch with me. Jim

]]> Par : jpsullivan http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-993 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:15:47 +0000 #comment-993 Jim, this is really interesting! You know, what we need is an interview with Prof. Capretz so we can learn about the early history of French in Action. I’d love to learn more about your father and the original French in Action. I will look for the 1948 book when I get back to the States. Thanks for this information!

John

]]> Par : Bjorn Runquist http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-986 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:48:52 +0000 #comment-986 Nice to set the record straight Jim. I imagine that there are very few students who know that. I remember seeing Mireille and Robert as a cartoon film strip in a presentation at the Northeast Conference in 1977. How I miss them!

]]> Par : Jim Boorsch http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-985 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:38:58 +0000 #comment-985 To add to your recollection, my father, the late Jean Boorsch, developed French in Action during WW2 at Yale. He invented Robert and Mireille, and their adventures are first described in Methode Orale de Francais, copyright 1948. Those two volumes are still available in libraries. Pierre Capretz took over and developed the television version with a grant from the Annenberg Foundation. But the immersion method itself, as well as the characters, date bate to WW2 when many naval officers at Yale submitted to it. Jim Boorsch

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]]> Par : Pete http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-13 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:17:20 +0000 #comment-13 I’m glad you’re not allowing any of the naked photos on this site. You wouldn’t believe how many hits in English I get for “Mireille nue”!

]]> Par : Laurent le Clochard http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-10 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:59:00 +0000 #comment-10 I discovered FIA on our local PBS station about a month ago and have been a faithful watcher ever since. Of course, Valerie Allain is the main draw, but Le Professeur is also a lot of fun (in a different way, of course). I had an amazing French teacher my first year of college (actor Frederic O’Brady, who had been at Princeton) who also believed in the immersion method, so the tactics on FIA are familiar. I’ll keep checking in here to see what you discover.

]]> Par : hi http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-9 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:45:32 +0000 #comment-9 that sounds cool.. maybe you could even have it formatted / cleaned up a little bit (it’s hard to go through as it looks now on the archive site)

]]> Par : aloysiushorn http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-6 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:45:46 +0000 #comment-6 That’s fantastic…it’s both cool and kinda scary that everything posted on every blog is saved for posterity. I’m considering reposting the complete thread on a link here. Any reason not to?

]]> Par : hi http://fiafans.org/2007/07/02/hello-world/#comment-4 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:51:51 +0000 #comment-4 old copies of the fancyrobot thread are here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fancyrobot.com/2003/03/french_in_actio.html

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