learn french

No, I am not enrolled in any French classes. I am a Japanese student, with a few friends in French 2. It’s not my fault, it’s Victor Hugo’s. If I had not started reading his work, I would have no intrest. If his work wasn’t so amazing, illustrating France and Paris and everything French in general as so beautiful, I would have no intrest. But the way the language flows is so romantic, it sounds so pretty when you learn a phrase you can’t help but repeat it again and again all night, even if nobody is listening. So I shall teach myself, I suppose. More complicated things have been done. Even if I can only manage a little, and I have no expectations of fluency, I want to learn more and more and more. Let’s hope for the best C:

Today, I picked up my certificate of completion for French level A1b. In September, my level A2 course will begin.

I’m quite pleased with myself. Not only did I manage to complete my French course, but it was Italian to French, not English to French. My French teacher spoke hardly a word of English, and all explanation was done in Italian. Yet, somehow, I passed.

I’m going to continue studying in my spare time until my course begins again in September. A good idea to hit the ground running, I think.

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I learned French for 3 years as a 2nd foreign language in college, and got high grades. But without practising it I forgot almost all of it. I always imagine that when I have time, I´d like to take my vacation in a small French town & take a language course. Now with a small child, I´m afraid I have to postpone this plan, but can always start learning at home.

but I am falling in love with this language…

Thanks to BBC Learn French site, I can listen to the words and try to follow. Not easy, though.

Trying. trying. trying.

Can’t fail my French class for this sem. :-))

Ce sont les oeuvres que j’ai lu:

Le Hymne de Baudelaire
Elevation de Baudelaire
Au Lecteur de Baudelaire

I have always wanted to learn French but my mom made me take Spanish in school since I live in California and it is more practical. But I have never given up wanting to learn and since I am going to live in France in a month, I decided now is the time.

found a free program online called Byki Express (by transparent learning) that you can download and work on either online or off, it has word and phrase lists with flashcards and audio pronunciation and after doing the first lesson i think its gonna be really good. there is also a paid version called Byki delux but you can get everything you need on the free version.