|
 |
Some questions about Assimil Using French | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Advice Center |  | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7196 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 9 of 10 28 January 2014 at 10:15am | IP Logged | |||||
I think Assimil is best at giving you a manageable chunk of material to learn in a single day. The multiple wave concept is brilliant. Reviewing the course is easy because it is concise. It is good for listening and reading. It helps with speaking, but I've found a more structured course like FSI to help more in that area. I think Assimil is great for getting you started. In the early days of the forum, people talked about "finishing" a language. I haven't found Assimil to be a "finisher". It's the best starter and bridge I'm aware of though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tarko Senior Member Korea, South Joined 4682 days ago 119 posts - 148 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 10 of 10 28 January 2014 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
I am working my way through Using French right now. I've made it exactly halfway through the course as of yesterday, and I have a few issues with it.
1. There are several - many - lessons which contain disjointed sentences that are little more than lists of idioms. 2. The texts aren't particularly entertaining, at least in comparison to New French With Ease. There are a few humorous lines, however. 3. The speakers start out very, very slow in lesson 1, and while they do speed up a few lessons later, it never gets to native speeds. 4. This is an issue with both NFWE and Using French: the portrayals of women aren't necessarily the best - showing their age, perhaps? - but I may just be unduly sensitive. If you want to read books in French I do not think you need this course. While I was a false beginner (I studied French for quite a few years back in the day) I picked up my first French book after completing the passive phase of NFWE and I had no problems. Using French definitely provides more idioms and vocabulary, but you should be able to get by with French novels with just the first course. I highly doubt that you will be at C1 level after only using course. My passive skills are quite high, but my active skills are lackluster. (Admittedly, producing French isn't my goal at the moment.) Using this text plus some other resources should help you develop stronger active skills, but I really don't think you'll be at C1 level. 1 person has voted this message useful |
If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login. If you are not already registered you must first register
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
