Laurence Wylie, 69, may be the only French-language teacher who starts his classes with a hard round of calisthenics. That tactic follows, with precise Gallic logic, from his basic premise: le français, in fact all language, is spoken mostly with the body. Says Wylie, a retired professor of French civilization at Harvard: "Just learning the rules of grammar and vocabulary isn't really enough."
So each day during the ten-week course, "Communicating with the French," Wylie's students limber up their English-speaking bodies with exercises. Then they scream and yell for a while to loosen...
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