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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7208 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 233 of 451 03 December 2014 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I hate it too. If I'm going to do a super long post, I sometimes save it and edit it. Damn laptops with their clicky stuff in the wrong spot. It's probably God telling me to to spare the pen. I don't know if you guys are tongue-in-cheeking it with the discussion around "misunderestimate". The proper word is simply "underestimate", unless you believe the individual who made that word famous was deliberately trying to deceive the populace by underestimating the enormity of the task he drew a nation into, and that "mis" was actually the proper prefix because it was spoken by devil's spawn himself and therefore is de facto a neologism of our time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 234 of 451 03 December 2014 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes, it was a weak attempt at satire. But if it was a word, surely the French equivalent would be "mal sous estimé". 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5479 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 235 of 451 11 December 2014 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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So yet another change to my study régime...
In view of the fact that I have 20 million courses to attempt to get through and couple that with the fact I'm a bit of an idiot... well... I've decided to dedicate my target of 3 hours of French study a day to only courses and Flashcards. 15min per hr of FC's, 45min per hour of course study. This way I can work on 3 courses simultaneously. I have too many of them, and i'm a fool and want to get through them, so I must make a concerted effort to move forward with them. That means I need to make more of an effort outside of my 'desk study hours' to use native materials as I now know how valuble they are. If searching the net, if reading, if watching TV I must make even more of an effort to do so in French. I'm finding that I'm pretty much at that point anyway as most of my net activity is done in French unless I have to find info for others for example who don't speak French (which does happen quite a bit with my emailing links etc to ppl requiring specific information and so on). Although my TV watching could be done more in French. So, that's me, yet again another change to my study régime. I'm currently a tad under 3 hrs per day in December, so not exactly where I want to be but not too bad either. This latter 3rd of the year i've kind of lost the plot a little in terms of my goals set and haven't remained as consistent as I'd like to be. So reading a few threads on certificates/qualifications etc has helped me remember where I'm aiming to go with French and thus I need to get down to business and soldier on before I drop the ball, or at least continue fumbling with it wondering which goal to shoot at. FRY a CrAb, WoRDz Edit: PS I'm really only 2 and a half years old. Thought you should all know that, very important 2nd super important edit: Current 'desk study courses': 1 French in Action - Leçon 8 2 Assimil NFWE (reviewing lesson 70 on the way to Lesson 84 where I've not gone beyond yet) 3. Fluenz French 3 Considering I have used FIA years ago up to leçon 26, am reviewing with Assimil NFWE, and well Fluenz French isn't all that hard, i'm not really covering a lot of new ground, so I need to push on and beyond these barriers causing some current stagnation. Current audio in car: 1. Rocket French Premium Plus Currently working my way through the bonus tracks that play like vocabularly lessons before finishing off this very useful level of the Rocket French audio series. It's been much tougher than Pimsleur- même Pimsleur French IV! 2. Pimsleur French IV Like Mohave has said this is a great program for automaticity, but not a huge amount of new vocab really. Still, very worthwhile. Despite my 800hrs plus of French study this year I think as I've pointed out before it's safe to say i'm not overly 'advanced'. I think i'm very very good at the level I am hovering on (somewhere between b1 and b2). I think I have a nice size vocab - whatever nice means - excellent pronunciation and decent understanding of grammar. However it's not been quick in getting me to those higher realms of French language proficiency (meaning B2 through to C2). Maybe i'd pass a b2 exam, but fact is if I hover around using intermediate less than advanced materials it's going to show in my language ability production. Thus I need be content with this if i'm going to work through all materials. Hopefully as Jeffers pointed out it does mean that I'll have some depth to my French in being so thorough. Importantly I need to keep up my native material use to keep my exposure to broader more advanced language up. I'm really hoping another solid year of course use will see me fly through the majority of them in 2015, fingers crossed. Perhaps i'll be reassessing my methods sooner than I think, or perhaps all will go as planned, waffle waffle dribble dribble. Ich möchte bitte ein Einzelzimmer mit Douche... Ja guten Tag! Guten Tag I say! Edited by PeterMollenburg on 11 December 2014 at 1:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4010 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 236 of 451 11 December 2014 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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All Hail to Prime Minister PM! Your consistency in studying three hours a day and 800+ hours this year is
truly impressive! I think regardless of which study plan you are using, you are going to succeed! You've worked so hard to get to this point, make sure you enjoy these great skills you have now! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5479 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 237 of 451 12 December 2014 at 4:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Merci Mohave... Oui, c'est vrai ce que tu m'as dit, j'ai fait beaucoup de travail cette année et j'améliorerai mon niveau de français avec n'importe qulle méthode si je travaille si dur. Mais je crois que je pourrais améliorer mes méthodes un peu quand même.. et je le ferai ! Et quand je finirai utiliser tous ces cours, je pourrai habiter entièrement dans un monde francophone ! Et aussitôt que je serai là, je commenerai à étudier l'espagnol et rêverai à un monde espagnol ! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 238 of 451 12 December 2014 at 8:03am | IP Logged | ||||||||
An autre monde 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5479 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 239 of 451 12 December 2014 at 9:29am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Est-ce possible que ces musiciens ont créé cette chanson pour moi ? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 240 of 451 12 December 2014 at 11:25am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Oui, peut-être. Ou plutôt non. Je ne sais pas, j'ai pas fait attention. Edited by Jeffers on 12 December 2014 at 11:57am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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