In a French grammar lesson at the College Chevereus, 11-year-olds copy word for word from the blackboard, and are corrected if they leave too wide a margin.

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Two centuries of Norman rule in England after 1066 significantly changed the Germanic grammar and dumped a large amount of French vocabulary into the language.

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Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.

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In addition to a much stronger grammar component, the site was more content-rich, intuitive and pleasant to use than Advanced French.

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