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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 57 of 80 12 September 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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In case anybody who reads this wondered, I've continued doing one Assimil lesson per day, lesson 19 today. I quit logging them every day, though, because I figured that could make this journal a bit monotonous. Anyway...
Comment dit-on "avoir soif de progrès" en Anglais? "To thirst for progress?" I just picked up "soif" today from Assimil (odd, because "faim" was probably one of the first couple hundred words I learned, many months ago!) and realized I had heard it before in the phrase above on the radio. In addition to practicing my comprehension, listening to France Inter has let me find a lot of songs that I enjoy. Et ma fiancée, elle aime ces chansons aussi. :-) Edited by tastyonions on 12 September 2012 at 6:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 58 of 80 15 September 2012 at 4:28pm | IP Logged |
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So far I've gone three weeks in a row of doing one Assimil lesson every day (number 22 today). :-)
I found today's to be markedly more difficult than other recent lessons. I'll definitely have to listen to it more times than usual. Edited by tastyonions on 15 September 2012 at 4:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 59 of 80 16 September 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged |
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Surprisingly, today's lesson was really easy. No words or grammar that were new to me at all.
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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 60 of 80 21 September 2012 at 1:38am | IP Logged |
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Been missing out on Assimil the past few days due to school busy-ness. Still sneaking in some French by way of recordings in my car, though. :-)
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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 61 of 80 25 November 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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Waouh, ça fait longtemps depuis j'ai écris !
I'm on lesson 58 of Assimil now, and the other day I started writing a bit at Lang-8. School is winding down for the semester, so I have some more time to devote to French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 62 of 80 02 December 2012 at 1:57pm | IP Logged |
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Lesson 64 today. The lessons are getting noticeably faster and I'm picking up some useful grammar. In today's lesson, for example:
"Je vous ai téléphoné il y a deux jours." I don't think any of the other lessons had used the passé composé + "il y a [duration]." Seems like a very useful construction, though! This lesson also listed some of the many types of "carte": une carte routière : road map une carte postale : post card une carte de crédit : credit card une carte de visite : business card And the lesson went over the savoir / connaître distinction, which seems like it will be hard to master. Sort of seems like it tracks the saber / conocer distinction in Spanish, which I remember from high school, but I'm not going to lean on that too much. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 63 of 80 14 December 2012 at 7:38pm | IP Logged |
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Lesson 66 today (wow, finals really got in the way of Assimil!). I watched a bunch of French movies this past weekend, several that I had already seen, and seem to be noticing more and more things I learn from Assimil showing up in dialogues.
Also joined the "Second Romance Team" for the TAC 2013. I've never tried the Total Annihilation Challenge before. I think that reading others' logs and getting some comments from them will give me a little extra motivation. :-) Edited by tastyonions on 14 December 2012 at 7:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 64 of 80 14 December 2012 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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Also, I watched and really enjoyed the series Engrenages recently (subtitled, on Netflix). I've always liked using Netflix to find French movies; I think French may actually have the greatest number of titles on there among non-English languages.
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