practice my french

that world youth day would present so many opportunities to speak french?!

I am inspired to seek out some native speakers somehow now that everyone has gone home. No idea how to go about this, it always seems weird when you only want to talk to someone to practice a language. So maybe Ill go to the french soc meetings i promised myself i would go to last semester now that I live on campus?!

Hi my name is Guillermo and I live in Washington DC and willing to meet once a week to practice my french with someone from France in exchange for Spanish. I’m from Argentina so that is my mothertoungue. Write me if you are up for it.

guillermoseratti@yahoo.com

Hello

I am french and I want to improve my english. So I am agree to exchange with you if you want. I can help you to improve your french.

Every day, 15-30 minutes in french and 15-30 minutes in english

Why not

Damien

datigre@free.fr
datigremien@hotmail.com
Skype : datigre

I suck! I swore to myself I was gonna read L’Étranger, but instead I picked up a Jane Austen. :) Let’s face it: XIXth-century romantic intrigue beats absurdist existentialism at any time! :D But it will be the next one, it will!

I am taking French this semester at uni… Just got an essay back – 86%! High distinction!! “Très bon travail, l’expression est soignée”

But still. I think I sound like a fool in tutes when I try to talk! So not all is great. We are reading Camus and a whole lot of other crazy French texts (L’hôte at the moment)

I keep promising myself I’ll go to the French conversation practices but somehow never make it there…

Well, the next novel I’m reading will be in French (Camus’s L’Étranger). I read like three pages the other day and it was the most I’ve practiced in, like, over a year. It’s pathetic! :P

I practiced a bit over winter break and will do it again this weekend. Coffee Break French is very useful in this endeavor even though so far it’s been a lot of review. I met a French guy the other night and my sister blurted out that I speak French-he started speaking a million miles an hour and I could understand a lot of it but could not reply back to a lot of it in French either-so this whole practicing the speaking part is exactly what I need.

Maybe I should join a meet up group for French speakers.

...because I am now teaching French! The last time I formally studied French was some 7 years ago. Since then I’ve had little opportunity to speak it out loud but I did try to occasionally read French publications. I’m teaching a class which introduces kids to 5 different languages-we do really basic things and I want to practice and add to my skills so I can eventually be truly trilingual. :) To do this I’ve started with Coffee Break French-it’s a really good review, especially for pronunciation. I plan to do this at least once per week.

i have found a belgian nun in my greenlandic class! she’s really sweet – her name is julianne and she’s in her 60s – and we walk back together (i take a long cut so we can talk longer) speaking French. It’s awful! I’ve totally lost my fluency! I couldn’t even remember how to say clothes! We had to revert back to Danish for that… oops. But it’s really good. I have Greenlandic class again tomorrow, so we’ll see eachother then. She also said something about inviting me to her place (she lives with 2 others, at least one of whom is also belgian), so that would be excellent

I love practicing different languages… mostly findin a new word everyday… todays word was TRES BRUYANT because i am :)