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| fezmond Groupie Korea, South Joined 4918 days ago 72 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 25 of 64 25 December 2012 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've got all the Tintin books now. Way, way above my level but will try reading them
anyway and maybe sit with a dictionary in hand later on. Happy that I managed L27 in Assimil without any real trouble (except a few new words like meat/poultry). Merry Christmas/Season's greetings to all :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4657 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 26 of 64 25 December 2012 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Merry Christmas to you, too!
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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4674 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 27 of 64 26 December 2012 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Les Schtroumpfs or Astérix are probably easier, you may want to give them a try. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| fezmond Groupie Korea, South Joined 4918 days ago 72 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 28 of 64 28 December 2012 at 6:37am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the heads-up. Will look into Asterix. I had a quick scan through Le Lotus Bleu and was happy to understand a few scenes. Me and my wife have a dream of leaving Korea for a few months, maybe a year in Paris so this is all helping. Not sure we can really afford it and the lifestyle changes for her (Korean) would pose a problem, however, it's a goal and it makes learning French much more important to me. I've slacked the past week with Assimil but I spent an hour or so trying to write out the last few lessons studied (25-27) from just reading the English. I guess this is the active wave, albeit too early. I felt rather proud after comparing what I'd written and seeing the actual translation. Just need to work on my own sentences now and start to do voice recording a la tastyonions. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fezmond Groupie Korea, South Joined 4918 days ago 72 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 29 of 64 01 January 2013 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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First post of 2013 so I will use this as motivation to kick off my studies again.
Despite having Christmas week off work I seriously fell behind with studying. Thinking about it, I will have been using Assimil for 2 months in just over a week's time and have only just finished lesson 29. I keep missing the audio (laziness/unable to use sound) which is probably where I'm going wrong. However, 29 wasn't too bad and I've already had a scan through lesson 30. I managed to finish the workbook and textbook for lesson 2 of French in Action today. There's a decent amount of activities to do and I believe I came across the future simple today (Elle va aller au cours d'italien) which initially confused me with the verb aller twice in a row. I have no way to check the answers (only have the work and text books, no study guide either) but I'm pretty sure they are right. Will have to make a start on FSI French again just for the grammar and repetition and considering Linguaphone. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4657 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 30 of 64 01 January 2013 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
Cool! I have also fallen a bit behind in my Assimil (and voice recording project) over the past few days. We can both pick it back up with the new year. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5201 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 64 01 January 2013 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
Fezmond, I wonder if you made a slip when typing..? It seems to me that the construction above is an example of the "futur proche". See About.com and a much longer explanation at the University of Texas site. French grammar is one of my weak points, but I recognize the form because I've used it a fair bit since happily discovering it a couple of years ago: it's the simplest way of expressing something in the future, and comparable to saying, in English, "I am going [to see, etc]", or in the case of your example above, "I am going [to go]". Also: the University of Texas site again on the Futur Simple. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fezmond Groupie Korea, South Joined 4918 days ago 72 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 32 of 64 02 January 2013 at 5:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't understand why at first va + aller would be next to each other like that so I googled it and the response on Yahoo answers was: futur simple. Now that I've looked into your links, I can see that it's really the futur proche. I don't think I'm ready for the future tenses yet, still getting used to the present and have barely seen much of the past. I think this whole learning French business is going to be a long and hard (but enjoyable) affair. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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