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| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4614 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 57 of 91 19 August 2012 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
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Not too much to talk about from the last few days. I watched Invasion of the Body
Snatchers (1979s version) and Training Day in French, which were both very good after not having seen them for a while. There were no French subtitles for Invasion, which I really prefer to use over English ones. So, I didn't use any. I was quite surprised by how much I understood without them! I've also been doing reading, both intensive and extensive, vocabulary exercises and some speaking and listening. Same old stuff really, just trying to get a bit of a schedule going. I also wrote a new log today: http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1634607/Le-Voyage- dans-le-Pass%25C3%25A9 I don't think it's too great, but it's not bad either. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4614 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 58 of 91 23 August 2012 at 8:49pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't been updating this every day as there isn't really much need. Things are
progressing pretty well. One good thing is that I've got lots of different things to do to vary things every once and a while. I'm thinking more and more in French, to the point where I wish I could remove the English around me and put myself into a complete immersion environment. Well, outside human contact is more important! I watched "The Lost Boys", or "Génération Perdue", in French, which is still a great cheesy 80s movie. I am almost certainly going to be repeating my exams this year so my focus has to change a bit. I have really been enjoying this period of "study" so hopefully I can still find time for it once other, more boring study starts. Here are the lang-8 journals I've posted recently: http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1637945/La-mort-de-mon-cha t http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1639408/Apprendre-une-autr e-langue-%253F http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1641318/La-vraie-substance -de-la-mort-%253A-Krokodil 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4614 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 59 of 91 14 October 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged |
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Well, here I am after nearly two months. There seems to be a recurring pattern of
periods of study and doing hardly any. As I thought might happen, my study for repeating exams has gotten in the way. So too have other things in my life. But of course I'm not giving up or 'stopping'; I always saw it as only a matter of time until I came back to doing French. I haven't done anything that's required much effort since my last post. Mainly thinking in French for a little while when I'm bored, without really challenging myself when I don't know exactly what to say. I also watched a few football matches in French. One thing I did notice is that I'm sometimes uncertain if 'this word' actually means what I think it means. Also that feeling of seeing a word and thinking 'I should know this'. Basically that loss of sharpness that comes from something like two months without being actively engaged in the language. I don't really have a plan as to what I'll be doing, but I know it'll be something. It'll be limited by other factors as I already alluded to, but that's life. Perhaps I'll do a journal entry on lang-8 tonight. It's awesome that there is always a community like this around. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4614 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 60 of 91 15 October 2012 at 11:03pm | IP Logged |
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So two days, two entries on lang-8. I didn't do anything crazy, just a few short
journals. http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1728815/Deux-mois-sans-des -%25C3%25A9tudes- fran%25C3%25A7aises%2521 http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1728815/Deux-mois-sans-des -%25C3%25A9tudes- fran%25C3%25A7aises%2521 I'm kind of a bit annoyed that my last three entries haven't been corrected. I don't know if there aren't any mistakes, or people just don't want to correct them because they aren't simple beginner stuff. Then again I can kind of get it; I tend to unconsciously hit the back button on my browser whenever I stumble onto massive paragraphs of English in my corrections. I took a walk today and listened to about 1h45mins of 'Le Grand Match de Ligue 1', an RTL radio program that consists of radio buildup, match commentary and post-match analysis for the evening ligue 1 fixture on Sundays. It's a cool experience to listen to a sport commentated over the radio, especially in French, because I've never really done so. There is something special about it, something slightly different from TV. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4614 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 61 of 91 21 October 2012 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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Things are still going well. I've done a good few journals in the past few days on
lang-8. I've been doing reading, speaking, some vocabulary, etc. I just built a computer for gaming so I'm trying to play as many games in French as possible. Sometimes it's difficult not to switch to English, because it makes it so much easier to learn the concepts and controls of something that I haven't played before. But of course, I can do it with French so I make myself. Not that it's not enjoyable! http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1730670/Une-nouvelle-d%25C 3%25A9finition-pour-nos- TVs%253F http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1732087/Mon-nouvel-ordinat eur http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1732460/France-Espagne-%25 3A-L%2527%25C3%25A9quipe- fran%25C3%25A7aise-a-%25C3%25A9volu%25C3%25A9 http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1734335/La-terre-outrag%25 C3%25A9e http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1737015/La-terre-outrag%25 C3%25A9e-%25282e- partie%2529 I'm still kind of discouraged by some of my entries on lang-8 not being corrected, but that's life. I'll learn from what I can and keep going. As long as they get corrected the odd time that's OK. Perhaps I'll try writing shorter entries to make it more accessible for people correcting. http://lang-8.com/407110/journals/1739181/J%2527ai-assembl%2 5C3%25A9-mon-PC%2521 Edited by Swift on 21 October 2012 at 1:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| FELlX Diglot Groupie France Joined 4776 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 62 of 91 21 October 2012 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
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I'd be happy to help out, but I've been very busy lately. Don't be discouraged! I'll try to read and correct a few of them in a week if no one else does it in the meantime. Edited by FELlX on 21 October 2012 at 1:01am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5397 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 63 of 91 21 October 2012 at 1:18am | IP Logged |
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I find it helps to 1: find French users learning English and give them good corrections
which will often encourage them to reciprocate and 2: if I post and I get nothing and there's hardly any views then I will sometimes delete and re-post in case my entry has been pushed down to never be seen again. If could also help to drum up support among French speakers to get more of them on there and using it but that would take some time. Maybe it's time to try a language learning blog in French... Oh, and I find that it's often the ones with just minor mistakes that get the quickest response. I know when I'm browsing English entries and there are ones that look like a train wreck I don't even know where to begin to extract some kind of coherent sentence so I'll often skip over them. Edited by sctroyenne on 21 October 2012 at 1:21am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5387 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 64 of 91 21 October 2012 at 3:03am | IP Logged |
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C'est difficile de cerner les raisons exactes qui font que plus ou moins de gens viennent
corriger nos textes. D'abord, il faut aider les autres pour qu'ils viennent nous aider. Ensuite, il est important d'écrire des textes qui ne sont pas trop longs et qui ont un titre susceptible d'accrocher les gens. Enfin, n'oublie pas que tu publies des textes pour les Français, alors essaie de publier tes entrées au moment où les Français sont en ligne et disponibles, comme tôt en matinée et en soirée. Je vois que peu de gens ont lu tes textes. La semaine dernière, j'ai écrit un texte en japonais et près de 60 personnes l'ont lu en quelques heures, ce qui est plutôt rare. Je pense que j'avais choisi un sujet intéressant qui a piqué leur curiosité et que je l'ai publié au bon moment. Et puis bien sûr, je corrige les entrées des autres depuis longtemps... Bonne chance! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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