Speak French fluently

I love France and travelling in France. Although I can get by in France, I’d love to make more of it and spend more of my year in that wonderful country – also would like to be able to read French literature in the original language.

I took three semesters of French while an undergraduate in college, in the early nineties… It all seems such a long time ago. I haven’t practiced my French in a long time (since 1999, to be exact), so I want to pick up where I left. However, this is not really a priority for now.

i joined a meetup group (www.meetup.com) in my area for speaking French and have been to two meetups so far. wonderful! it’s so great to have a place or event to go to where the norm is speaking French and I can finally practice and dust off all the old vocabulaire in my memory!

Aussi, j’ai lu une histoire courte par Jules Renard s’appelle Poil de Carotte. C’était une histoire très poignante.

Well… I’m in Montreal with a francophone boyfriend and I had made this goal before these circumstances, so you would assume I would make the most of this opportunity. Sadly not. I am picking up french, but nowhere near as much as I’d hoped. And ofcourse its really important to my boyfirend that I can speak his mother-tongue.

I don’t know if its because I’m too shy and underconfident(i have a fear of making mistakes and looking stupid)to speak freely, or whether I feel too much pressure cos I have to(for my boyfriend) rather than want to for myself(as it was originally)

I know I’ll get there but I want to enjoy it, to do it for myself, and not take it too seriously either. Hmmmm

haha, not really, but i’ve been listening to a lot of french music lately, so much so that i can’t remember the last time i listened to the radio or american cds. it’s been straight french artists for many many moons. but it’s been instrumental in helping fine tune my ear as far as listening, and helping me train my brain to listen to it in french and not translate in english but to trust that i know the word or don’t know the word (and if i don’t know it try to find it later). i really enjoy the artist Camille and her album Le Fil. i also really like Loane and the Jamais Seule album.
i get so excited when i catch a phrase in a song that i know. i just need to learn a lot more vocab now, and a lot more practical vocab, too, like news stuff and current events, etc. i think the web is most useful for that… off i go! :D

I’ve been studying French for a year now. I moved to Quebec for six months and I incredibly improved my French, however when I came back home (Mexico) I didn’t practice much, so I started getting confused with grammar and forgetting the vocabulary I had learned. I’m still taking French classes. I’m pretty exigent with myself and I would really like to feel confident about my French grammar, vocabulary and pronouncitation :)

I will be moving to France in a few years time when my sons go to university and because my Mum & Dad already live there already.
As I will have to find a job as well as looking after them because they are getting older, so I need to learn as much as I can to hold down a job.
One of the problems I have found is that the French in the area they live (Ceret, in Pyreness Orientales)is spoken with a Catalan accent and some words are different from the way I learnt at school.

It occurred to me one day that my world view is a limited as the number of languages I speak.

I speak a smattering of languages- two Chinese dialects and French beyond beginner’s level, but I don’t speak any well enough that I consider myself fluent.

Over the years I’ve studied Chinese and French, but I’ve never made commitment to stay with it until now.

This is a lifelong dream of mine that I once began in college, but decided on a major in Accounting and thought I had to make a choice between the real world and the artsy-fartsy stuff. I now know better.

Just wrote an email to Alliance Francaise asking about classes starting in April. I hope there will be one that would be appropriate for my very rusty French. The basics are still there (reading isn’t a problem), but opening my mouth around French people is just too scarry. I definitely need help for that.