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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 113 of 329 17 January 2013 at 12:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
I went to the conversation group and it was fun! Levels of French there varied quite widely, as I thought they might, from highly proficient to complete beginners; I was somewhere in the middle. It met at a restaurant in a very relaxed atmosphere. The "class" part was very informal, mostly just people taking turns reading texts aloud and the group's leader explaining any vocab / grammar that people didn't understand. I found the conversation part more fun, and got to talk to a few people who had been to France. There was one native speaker, from Morocco, but he arrived not long before I had to go. All in all it was a good time and I'll be visiting again. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 114 of 329 17 January 2013 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Had a second tutoring session today. Went pretty well but I felt like I was bit off my game, hesitating too much, slow to think of the right way to put something. Guess that happens to everyone at some point, though.
[Edit: I forgot to mention that with my new computer, Skype now works beautifully. Not a hiccup in the whole process this time.] Edited by tastyonions on 17 January 2013 at 11:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5532 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 115 of 329 17 January 2013 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yup, this happens to me, too. Here's a nice interview that talks about the subject:
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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 116 of 329 17 January 2013 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think my brain have had some "French fatigue" today because I had some free time and by when the session rolled around I had watched two un-subtitled movies (with full attention and a pen in hand) in a row. :-) Edited by tastyonions on 17 January 2013 at 10:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5882 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 117 of 329 17 January 2013 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm sure that we all have had this experience in our native language. A big problem once you're in front of an audience and need to explain something ... [/me last tuesday] 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 118 of 329 19 January 2013 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Three days left in TAC Week 3 (including today)!
1. I've stayed on track with my Assimil every day (one passive and one active), despite not logging it here. I did Lessons 100 and 51 this morning. Both the active and passive waves have been going *very* smoothly the past few days. I'm not sure if I just hit an easy stretch in the course or if I made some kind of jump in ability. :-) 2. Yesterday I tried a new exercise: whenever my fiancée and I were talking, I formulated a response in French in my head before responding in English. It was pretty tiring and I lost the plot when the conversation got more complicated, but I think it will be a valuable exercise. I don't think it will reinforce too many bad habits as long as I remember to ask my tutor (or the good people here) about things I'm unsure of. 3. I have another tutoring session this week on Monday. I hope I'll be in better form this time around. I also signed up for one next Thursday. I'm going to try and make Monday / Thursday a regular thing if possible. Edited by tastyonions on 19 January 2013 at 2:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4604 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 119 of 329 19 January 2013 at 3:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Great log tastyonions! It sounds like you're making great progress, fair play. I use self
talk quite a bit, especially when I was learning Irish. It's a great exercise, but can become quite boring if you have nothing to say! I found this tip from Arekkusu yesterday, which seems to work VERY well, particularly for using new vocab in context. Have a look at message 157: talk">here Edited by liammcg on 19 January 2013 at 3:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 120 of 329 19 January 2013 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the link. I had actually read that post some time ago, but never got around to using the full exercise myself, because at the time I didn't think I had enough vocabulary to give it a proper go. In fact, my tutor had me do a very similar exercise during our session on Thursday. First she gave me a short list of vocab to help me out, then had me watch a video and make sentences (out loud, not written) describing (sequentially) what happened in it. And afterward I realized that what I had just done was basically what Arekkusu had described in his post, and decided to do try and do it regularly on my own. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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