Description: "Where is Brian?" Can you answer this simple question? If you're not sure what the answer is, ask any Frenchman to quickly find out where to find Brian!
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Having a good private joke (inside joke) is a great way to open the door to a new culture. For many learners humor isn’t always the easiest thing to understand in a new language, and can be a rather large cultural hurdle.
In my personal experiences, I found it rather difficult to capter des blagues françaises (get French jokes), until I heard one that played into how the French learned English.
La blague (the joke) comes from the famous comedian, Gad Elmaleh, and the joke plays on the teaching method used in French schools for learning English throughout the 80s and into the 90s. La blague from his sketch (routine) goes like this: