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| JohnPaul Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5652 days ago 28 posts - 63 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 10 February 2014 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
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Hello again,
In the past I have made various goals for my language learning, written a post on this forum about it and then promptly failed to keep up with my goal or my postings. So this spring I am doing something different. I have no special goal aside from successfully finishing my semester. I know I will keep this goal :-). I am a student of French in San Francisco and am carrying 5 three hour courses, 4 of which are in French. The other class is A.S.L., as a fun way of satisfying a obscure cultural awareness graduation requirement. I will be updating this as a way of seeing how far along I get in reading and my improvement. I will post links to what I am reading when I can, along with a very brief appraisal of my progress in each. Nearly all the material will of course be in French, with a few supplemental materials here and there in English. This is my last semester studying French in an American collegiate setting. I won't be graduating come May but if all goes as planned I will be leaving for Paris in the fall to complete the last two semesters and will graduate in Spring 15. So here is my first journal entry. Tonight's reading: French - From Dialect to Standard by R. Anthony Lodge pp.1-22 (English) I really like this book. Learning a lot. Edited by JohnPaul on 10 February 2014 at 6:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5333 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 2 of 7 10 February 2014 at 4:18pm | IP Logged |
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Hello fellow San Franciscan! It's a great city for French if you can't be in France or Quebec. Good luck with
your studies and your upcoming year abroad! I went in '09-'10 then went back in '11-'12 as an English language assistant. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JohnPaul Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5652 days ago 28 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 7 11 February 2014 at 11:46am | IP Logged |
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Hello sctroyenne, I like your forum handle. Clever phonetic play. Speaking of phonetics that was tonight's theme.
Yes, San Francisco is a great city for French if you can't be "sur place." There is a strong francophone presence here and we're lucky for it. Perhaps the only place with more would be New York. I applied for the TAPIF, we'll see if I get it. Tonight's reading: Savoir dire - cours de phonétique et de prononciation pp.2-28 (Français) I really am enjoying this book and the exercises, though they take much longer than one might expect. Total pages read this semester en français: 26 Edited by JohnPaul on 11 February 2014 at 11:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JohnPaul Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5652 days ago 28 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 7 12 February 2014 at 11:12am | IP Logged |
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More English reading about French today. I like the book but it's getting a bit dry. Tomorrow is going to be a big
reading day. I hope. I also spent half an hour reviewing my phonetics from yesterday. French - From dialect to standard pp.23-56 (English) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5474 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 7 12 February 2014 at 4:46pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck with your French classes!
I definitely found that doing lots of reading in French made a huge difference for me. After reading 500 pages I could more-or-less read (with dodgy comprehension), after 2,500 pages things got a lot easier, and after 8,000 pages I could read 40 pages/hour with an unknown word or so per page. Later this year we'll be starting another Super Challenge, and if you're like to do a lot of reading, you're invited to sign up. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5333 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 6 of 7 12 February 2014 at 4:51pm | IP Logged |
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I enjoyed my phonetics course though I didn't work on the prononciation as much as I
would have liked so I was focusing more on phonetic transcriptions for the tests. But I still have the book and can practice whenever I want. Good luck for getting accepted by TAPIF! Am I right to assume you're doing CSU's Paris program plus TAPIF within the Paris region? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JohnPaul Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5652 days ago 28 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 7 20 February 2014 at 11:56am | IP Logged |
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Well its been a week since I last posted but I have not given up on this logbook. I work weekends and thus it can be
hard to keep up with school work. This weekend's work seemed to really take it out of me. I have had trouble recovering from the fatigue but now I'm back, not back with much to post about, but I'm back. Here is today's tally of reading in French. Both selections are very short but were accompanied by exercises and response questions to do making the reading a bit more full of vitamins. I am terribly behind in my reading for the semester but the GF is leaving for a few days so I hope to capitalize on that. Tomorrow morning I will hopefully get a good start on a famous novella. Details forthcoming. Savoire Dire pp.38-42 La civilisation française en évolution pp.17-19 This book is a bit odd. It is a history book that is written out of sequence. Can't blame the French because the author is clearly an anglophone. Total en français aujourd'hui: 8 Total en français pour le semestre: 34 Edited by JohnPaul on 20 February 2014 at 11:58am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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