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The Godfather: Peter Corris on learning French

The Godfather: Peter Corris on learning French

by NRB | 2 Dec 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I failed French in the 1959 Victorian matriculation examination. This failure had been looming for some time. I passed the subject narrowly in fifth form but in the final year the degree of difficulty went up and with it my ineptitude. In the final school exam I got...
             

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