J'aime le français, j'anime le français

In October 1999, in Ho-Chi-Minh City, it's the rainy season. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in the throws of reconstruction, opens up to the world. It is attempting to set up an education system that will promote a new multi-lingual approach. Fifteen thousand Vietnamese children will therefore experience a renovated French teaching programme, which should give them access to training for careers of the future and make them economic players in the Vietnam of the 21st century. In this audiovisual and computer era, the production workshop, Caméra Enfants Admis, has developed a play-orientated teaching method for French, using reading and writing images and sounds, which was tried in pilot classes of 6th and 7th P1. The project of the atelier Caméra Enfants Admis, was implemented in three phases : two intensive weeks producing cartoons with the children of the French sections ; one week's training in Vietnam and two further weeks training in Belgium for the teaching staff : the implementation of these training programmes in practical teaching and passing on the techniques which have been learned to Vietnamese colleagues