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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 41 of 64 15 January 2013 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
I type them on my laptop. Handwriting is probably better for memorizing, but digital is handy: I can then use diff to check my dictations. 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 42 of 64 21 January 2013 at 6:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Week 3 done and I've been pretty lazy this week.
Assimil - just about to start lesson 43, which means I'll be hitting the active wave next week. I still need to pay more attention to the grammatical make up of sentences but things aren't too bad. French Without Toil - lesson 9. All going pretty well here, just interesting to see the way in which people talk has changed over time. Grammaire Progressive Niveau Debutant - Have only finished the first 2 lessons but things are going well. Apart from a few dumb mistakes on my part, it's pretty simple stuff. I also tried reading the first 10 pages of Le Petit Prince but I came away hardly understanding a thing. Way too many unfamiliar conjugations and vocabulary. 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 43 of 64 21 January 2013 at 7:03am | IP Logged | |||||
As I've previously mentioned on my log, I wasn't able, for the longest time, to actually finish Le Petit Prince. The version on Ilya Frank's site, http://english.franklang.ru/, was what finally helped me to do it. (Click on "French" on the left column.) It has interlaced English translations, both in grammatically sound English, as well as a literal translation where appropriate. Check it out..? 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 44 of 64 21 January 2013 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the link. I'm sure most of it is a case of my French simply not being good enough right now. I had a look at Tintin and there were still too many words and conjugations I didn't know. I feel that I haven't progressed as well as I've wanted over the past two months but still, every little helps. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5524 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 45 of 64 21 January 2013 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Don't worry about! Like songlines said, Le Petit Prince is not actually all that easy to read. It uses verb tenses like the imparfait du subjonctif which rarely appear in French books, and it uses a larger vocabulary than you might think. LingQ actually has a copy with an audiobook and a popup dictionary that you might try. They list it under the section "Advanced 1". The first time I actually read Le Petit Prince comfortably, quickly and without a dictionary was several months after my B2 exam. So if you still find it hard work, that's perfectly normal! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 46 of 64 21 January 2013 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I guess there's also an element of what level of perfection you're willing and able to accept. I found it quite easy to
get a good sense of what's going on in something I was reading without being able to identify the tenses at all. I'm only now beginning to finally crystallize them in my mind, but usually when you're reading it's not too important to be able to get this information explicitly from the word forms themselves, and you know that if you just ignore the ending of the word you get the stem that you can get further information from. Actually, it was primarily by reading things where I did not know the tense markers that I eventually managed to learn them in the first place! When you see the same endings over and over, they become familiar, and you just need to consult a grammar chart to tell you what this familiar-looking form represents. 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 47 of 64 25 January 2013 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If anyone reads this log: any French bands you recommend? I like N&SK, The Pink Martini
(not French but some bits) and that's about all I know. Will listen to anything 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 48 of 64 11 February 2013 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Been quite a while since I've updated this log...sometimes life just gets in the way.
It's been a very slow two weeks on my part, especially active study. New French with Ease - Finished lesson 56 today but the past week's lessons have been mostly scanned through rather than sitting down and really looking at the sentences and new words. The first active week seems to have gone quite well, despite some dumb mistakes and confusion with prepositions. Grammaire Progressive - up to unit 6, all going well but again lack of focus results in dumb mistakes. I've realised that I don't think I can actually write much or say much in French at all. Reading comprehension seems to be OK and listening is always improving but I have a complete lack of experience with creating my own sentences and trying to express myself. Guess it's onto lang8 and trying to skype with someone for practice. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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