asseyez-vous s'il vous plaît
Mr Bergin our French teacher was awsome without realising it. We loved going to lessons with him, not for his knowledge on his subject, or his way of inspiring his pupils, no, it was mainly due to the fact he was from Yorkshire and taught French in a school in the Midlands. Being told to "asseyez-vous s'il vous plaît" in a broad yorkshire accent ended in a class of sniggering children.
The school trip to Paris resulted in puzzled looks from gendarmes, shop keepers and the like as we all spoke French with a Yorkshire accent.
So Mr Bergin, I salute you. You taught me that foreign languages can be fun to learn and whenever I go to France I always use what you taught me.
I only wish we'd had a German teacher from Wales as well.
( TitanLX, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 11:35, 3 replies)

Setzen Sie, faith and begorrah
My German teacher was Irish. My French teacher was actually French, but spoke English with a broad Glaswegian accent as she'd learned English while at the University of Glasgow.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 11:47, closed)

Mr Allen was from 'Uddersfield'
And taught us French so this is like deja vu to me (see what I did there?)

L'oiseaux! (la wazzo) was a fave.

So was urn pack a da sook ra
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 11:58, closed)

We did the WJEC german exams
The Welsh Joint Examining Committee sent someone up to Birmingham do our oral exams, that was hard not to snigger at.
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 19:58, closed)