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| sygi Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 4956 days ago 11 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Esperanto Studies: French | Message 1 of 22 19 June 2014 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Salut tout le monde!
Je suis un etudiant d'informatique en Pologne et next year I'm going to be an Erasmus student in French-speaking part de Suisse. I have never been learning French, so I started collecting materials and reviewing them about a month ago. A present, lorsque j'ai more time than before the exams, je vais apprendre francais plus regularly. At least until I'll start a full-time job in July :P The ideal (and unrealistic) goal would be to achieve B1 when starting my studies in mid-September. C'est important, parce que it is a requirement of the student house I got place in. I accepted leur proposition as I heard about difficulty to find a flat in Switzerland (hope they don't read this :P). Dans mes etudes I will try to listen a lot, as je voudrais to develop mostly oral skills. I took a look at and liked the following courses:
Until now, I mostly did duolingo (level 7), watched introduction to French In Action and also listened to about 1 CD of Michelle Thomas. I am going to write here from time to time to have some motivation to do the writing in French and also to receive feedback. So feel free to correct mes erreurs and to suggest other things I should do. And also wish me luck ;) Edited by sygi on 19 June 2014 at 7:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7015 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 22 19 June 2014 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bonne chance!
Tout ira bien! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4719 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 22 19 June 2014 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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That is quite a challenge! Good luck!
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| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 3817 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 22 19 June 2014 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think your choices of Assimil and Friench In Action are solid. I am currently using them both, and have
found them to be great primary sources. I would also suggest considering a language exchange partner for practicing speaking. For me, this made a huge difference. Additionally, I only recently started using an SRS type flashcard app, and I really kick myself for not starting to use this sooner. Bonne chance! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3954 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 5 of 22 19 June 2014 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bonjour! I think that B1 in 3 months is possible, with lots of motivation and lots of time. How much time do you
have to put in to language learning daily? If I were trying to reach B1 in a new language in 3 months, I'd plan on putting in at least 2 hours a day. Here's how I would split up my two hours daily if I were you: 30 minutes French in Action (just watch and listen. Watch an episode more than once if you need to.) 30 minutes course of choice (in your case Assimil) 30 minutes tutoring OR 60 minutes language exchange (half Polish, half French) 30+ minutes other stuff: anki for vocabulary, Duolingo for drilling basic structures, actively listening to podcasts, intensive reading (levelled readers) Bonne chance! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3931 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 22 19 June 2014 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would add Pimsleur, since you wish more to develop the oral skills
You could drop off duolingo and switch it to pimsleur if you dont have enough time for both. Just my opinion. Pimsleur is very expensive but it's worthy 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4719 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 7 of 22 20 June 2014 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
I have to say, I disagree somewhat with this. Benny's "Fluent in 3 Months" challenges have been all-day, immersive experiences. I don't know of anyone else who has claimed to have gained either B1 or fluency in 3 months, but it would certainly take more than 2 hours a day. I suppose I'm reacting because I've been at French for 3 years, usually for an hour or two a day, and I think I'm barely scraping out of A2. I have to say that, like many of us on HTLAL, I am in introverted learner. That is, I do more of my learning by input and only output when I'm ready. Some people would argue that it's inefficient, but I couldn't do otherwise. Also, I think the massive input I am taking in now will put me in a much better position in the long run. On the other hand, the OP only has to be able to speak enough to make the people around there think he's B1. If he's a gregarious person, good at blagging, and has tutoring as you suggest, I think it's possible, but he will be faking B1. And then in a few months immersed, and with continued effort, he would probably attain a legitimate B1. Sygi, if I have any advice it would be to make it a goal to work on French for 6 hours a day (when you're not working anyway), get people you can speak with, and practice speaking everything you learn from your courses. You don't have to know a huge amount, but you will have to be able to use everything you know. EDIT: I thought I'd look up how many hours are recommended for B1 by the "big providers". Wikipedia says that Deutsche Welle suggests 300 tuition hours for B1.1 and 400 hours for B1.2. Cambridge ESOL and Alliance Française give similar numbers. But remember that these places would also expect a certain amount of homework. What's my point? You need to know that you've got a huge task ahead of you, and arrange your planning and activity around that fact. Edited by Jeffers on 20 June 2014 at 12:23am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4254 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 8 of 22 20 June 2014 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Bonjour toute le monde qui apprend les langues...
The bottom-line of learning any language is to get yourself exposed by reading and listening a lot outside your classroom hours. I tend to find reading newspapers boring but enjoy regarder les programmes télé et les spectacles d'autre pays avec sous titres anglais ou chinois. 1. I recently got into a set of online videos from Yabla. Yabla comes in several languages including French. You have the option of listening to words & phrases over as many times as you want and select the slower speed if you need to. 2. The other videos I found was "francais authentique" on YouTube. It is a man talking about various subjects. 3. Right now I am reviewing vocabularies from the movie on DVD: "La Cage aux Folles" with French captions. Bon chance! Edited by shk00design on 20 June 2014 at 1:06am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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