that these people are teaching the French language,

是这些人在教授法语
and that this is how you're going to learn it.

当时的人就是这样学法语的
And there's always a story told almost everyplace how in school,

几乎各地都有这样一个故事在学校里
even during recess, recreation, recess,

即使是休息的时候
the last person who says a word in patois

有人不小心说了一句方言
has to clutch for the remainder of the period

那个人接下来的时间都得紧握着
some oddly shaped rock or coin,

某个奇怪形状的时候或硬币
until somebody else screws up

直到另一个人不小心
and says a word in patois.

说了一句方言
Are you kidding me?

这是个玩笑么
It doesn't work like that at all.

事情不是这样的
Jean-Francois Chanet started,

让?弗朗索瓦?夏奈