learn french

I’ve started listening to The Michael Thomas method on the bus to work and back. Slowly I am picking up words and realising how to piece them together to make phrases and sentences.

I need to continue listening daily. 2 days ago

I looked in the app store for Laguage teaching apps, expecting to have to pay much more than 99c, I happened across Duolingo. This should be fun! 4 days ago

I don’t remember when I decided I was going to, but I kept this as my goal and I plan to go for it as soon as I have spare time and as soon as I am fluent enough in japanese. 4 days ago

Duolingo :D 1 week ago

I went to France in high school for a few days and I loved it. I knew almost no French, but everyone was really nice because they could tell I was trying and was really respectful and appreciative of their patience.

Next time I go, which is another goal, I want to know more so that I can properly function as a tourist. 1 week ago

It’s not hard to say why; the vocabulary lessons are shorter and less involved, which means they’re more approachable. I guess you could say as a metaphor that je prefiere manger des bonbons. J’aime petit et sucre.

Anyway I’m hoping I can flog myself into catching up to my study plan over the next few days. I’m just chronically overwhelmed in general, which is a lot of why I feel like I don’t get anything done. If I tell myself to do one thing today I will probably do it. If I tell myself to do two things today they will probably both happen. If that excites me enough I might be inspired to do a few more things. But if I actually have a list, there’s an excellent chance I’ll just give up and play Facebook games for an hour and a half instead…which is a problem since I don’t remember the last time I had a day in which there were only one or two things I needed to do. 1 week ago

Je crois que j’ai un niveau assez bonen français pour le moment.Je m’étais inscrite encore dans l’Istitut Français pour continuer mon apprentissage.Le niveau où je suis est avancé, alors je crois que je vais marquer ce but de l’apprentissage de la langue française comme fait à la fin de cette session.

Mais bien sur je vais continuer l’amilioration de mon français par la lecture, premièrement ! 4 weeks ago

Well, September is not far away. It’s even less far away when you consider that I will be gone part of June and unable to study. If I am serious about knowing the language before I go to France I have to get a plan together.

Looking at what is available to me on the site where I’m learning French, I think the first three courses of each of the…I dunno…types of courses :s…would be about enough for me to navigate around in France reasonably well for une femme americaine. That would be…

8 units of French vocabulary, each of which seems to be about 5 lessons, of which I have now done 3.
3 levels of general French, each of which I’m assuming has 6 units of 2 lessons each just like the first, and of which I have now done the first 2 units and am starting on the third.

I’ll just take this down to the basic common denominator of lessons.

vocabulary: 8 units x 5 lessons = 40 lessons, minus 3 I’ve already done. 37 lessons left.

general: 3 courses x 6 units x 2 lessons = 36 lessons, of which I have now done 5, leaving 31 lessons.

The fact that I’m having to write this all down to figure it out means my brain is really slow today.

I basically have about 4.5 months to do this – 18 weeks, roughly. That means a minimum of roughly 2 lessons a week in each type of course if I’m going to do this properly on time. That’s plenty doable.

Also my pronunciation just kind of sucks. People keep reviewing my assignments and telling me it sucks but not really telling me how I could make it stop sucking. I finally wrote back to one particularly poor reviewer today and told her – I am taking a beginning French class because I do not speak French. Knowing that I am not easily understandable does not help if I do not know why I am not easily understandable. Can you be a little more specific please?1 month ago

Yesterday I wrote my final exam(WOOHOO!). Surprisingly, it was pretty easy:D. There has been 3 months since my first lesson and now I feel much more confident in French.
Besides, I have 2 friends who also study this language and recently they’ve made a kind of group in whatsapp to communicate in French there. So now I have a little bit of chat practise and I must confess that it is not only interesting but also challenging as you can compare your knoweledge with theirs.
So from Wednsday I will start my 3 level. Sure it will be even more interesting than previous one ;)
P.S. The exam task was an essay “The man of your dream” O-la-la <3 1 month ago

I’ve been doing things out of order, turns out, but that’s okay. Struggling through a quiz where I’d only done one of two lessons turned out to be a learning experience in and of itself.

Also found a supplementary vocabulary course. 1 month ago