Bonjour mes ami(e)s ! Aujourd’hui nous allons parler d’un sujet qui fait partie du quotidien pour chacun d’entre nous : l'école. Moi, je travaille ici au Cameroun en tant qu’enseignante, et vous êtes tous des élèves là-bas aux États-Unis. Il existe plusieurs différences très intéressantes entre nos systèmes scolaires que j’aimerais partager avec vous.
Hello my friends! Today we are going to talk about something that is a part of both of our daily lives: school. I am a teacher here in Cameroon, and you are all students in the United States. There are many interesting differences between our school systems that I would like to share with you all.
In the USA, you are all in middle school, but here in Cameroon, or in any Francophone system, you would already be considered high schoolers, or secondary schoolers. In my secondary school, there are students in classes between “6ème” (6th grade) all the way through “terminale” (year 13 of school, essentially the equivalent of senior year of high school). The grades advance as follows: 6ème, 5ème, 4ème, 3ème, 2nde, 1ère (première), and terminale.
