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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 9 of 16 08 February 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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Another medicine student! Great to see you here! Good luck with your French, I'm looking forward to reading your log. Alter Ego is quite good and it is the only course series aiming for C1/C2. Are you going to use any native non-textbook sources as well?
Btw do you know http://www.uvp5.univ-paris5.fr/wikinu/index.htm ? It is a wonderful site with materials from French medical faculties (I love especially those from Grenoble). There are presentations, often with audio of the lecture! And the content is good too, I use some of these as one of the ressources sometimes. No trouble with terminology, as it is mostly Latin after all ;-) I totally understand your lack of time but it is still possible to have a hobby or two. It is actually quite healthy. But of course, the time for it is limited. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 10 of 16 13 February 2013 at 12:22pm | IP Logged |
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And there the first comment for my log comes, thanks Cavesa!
GERMAN I was (and still am, in fact) participating in forum's assimil experiment challenge but an opportunity for going to France this summer forced me to change all plans and to focus myself on French mostly. I had studied well until 48th lesson of Assimil L'Allemand but then I must admit, I negliged it, and now I regret because I really enjoyed the book and this was my very first Assimil experiment. I wanna restart my assimil adventure by restudying previous lessons and then continuing on the daily routine of Assimil when I reach back the point I gave it up. ENGLISH I realised that I really lost my written expression ability and oral production competences in English. I was at the level of advanced fluency in this language, but I see that I didn't really use it except for reading medical books and university conferences for two years and it caused an immense loss of 'active power' in my vocabulary. I must regain my 'everyday, general English'. I didn't plan how to do it, but watching series, reading some BBC or restarting to read newspaper chronicles are the first ideas with up which I came. FRENCH I borrowed 3 graded readers from French Cultural Center in my city yesterday and I have 3 weeks to return these books. Considering all I wrote above, I decided to force myself into a "mini-challenge", otherwise I know that the tendancy to laziness I have will result as wasted time and unproductive weeks. in 3 weeks : * I'll read and prepare a list of unknown words of these 3 graded readers. * I'll study dossier 3 and 4 out of 9 of Alter Ego 3. * I'll refresh my assimil L'Allemand upto the point I gave it up. * I'll listen to at least 5 BBC podcasts or soap operas (or radio records) and read at least 50 pages in English. * I'll participate at least 8 hours in French conversation sessions. * I'll listen to first 10 lessons of Assimil New French with Ease and repeat it regularly in order to study some pronunciation. A bientôt ! Edited by fireballtrouble on 13 February 2013 at 12:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 11 of 16 27 February 2013 at 1:48pm | IP Logged |
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After 2 weeks, for English and French I completed my "to-do-list" .. I did even more
for French. Graded readers are helping me a lot to enchance my vocabulary. What a pity that the library of the French Cultural Center in my city isn't rich enough for upper- intermediate learners. There are A1-B1 stuff or novels.. who cares B2, C1-ish challengers? :) On internet, via skype and Verbling, I talked to French natives. I understand very well when I talk to people aged over 35-40. I find their speech more decipherable and their articulation clearer. I feel that majority of youngs around my age 'eat' the endings of the words, I understand less. For German, I revised some 30-40 lessons, but I must admit that my mind was still on my French studies during my revisions. I may suspend German studies or not, while Spanish and Russian are attracting me too, it's not easy enough to keep motivated for German. French is the 'No.1' priority for this year's TAC, anyway. Let's continue writing in TL, French... D'ailleurs, je viens d'apprendre que l'examen de DALF C1 aura lieu le 8 novembre 2013 , j'suis pas encore sûr si j'aurai déjà ce niveau jusqu'à ce jour-là. L'intensité de mes études universitaires empêche la régularité de mon apprentissage de langues étrangères, hélas. Je vois que mon français s'avance de jour en jour, les Français trouvent mon accent très compréhensible et clair. Franchement, ça m'a bien encouragé pour mes buts pour vers la fin de cette année. Je serai de retour avec une nouvelle mise-à-jour. N'hésitez pas à me corriger pour mes fautes de français, s'il vous plait. Edited by fireballtrouble on 27 February 2013 at 1:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 12 of 16 03 March 2013 at 12:33pm | IP Logged |
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Voilà un essai, j'ai crée un enregistrement, tous les commentaires sont bienvenus.
Je trouve ça utile pour voir bien notre progrès pendant l'année. Le lien à l'enregistrement 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WoofCreature Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 4524 days ago 80 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: German, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 13 of 16 16 March 2013 at 12:11am | IP Logged |
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Wow, ton accent est excellent! Si je ne savais pas, je penserai que vous étiez un natif. Il y avait quelques voyelles pas totalement claires, comme dans la phrase « avec les membres de mon équipe». Ça sonnait plus comme « avec le membres de mun équipe». Mais considérez que je ne suis pas une native. Depuis combien de temps apprenez-vous le français? Bonne chance avec tes études!
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| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 14 of 16 27 April 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
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Long time, no update.
Well, I must admit that it was a dead period for language studies and was immensely charged with medicine studies. Here I'm back to keep up with my languages. I'll probably go to France this August for an internship at an hospital so I suspend all my English and German adventure for now. All I need to do is to boost my French vocabulary as much as possible in 3 months, especially I'll be more in ease to find free time in the last one monthe, July. My plan is not do a change on my general "Alter Ego 3+4+5" path but to accelerate it. I already have been regularly talking on Skype with French pals. All recommandations are welcome ! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 15 of 16 28 May 2013 at 5:00pm | IP Logged |
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Alter Ego 3 : Completed. A review of Alter Ego 3 : Alter Ego 3 is by far the most vocabulary loaded French book I've ever studied. As you know it's a French-only book, I think its benefit is improving PASSIVE vocabulary. Reading the words and studying texts didn't really helped much for my ACTIVE speaking&writing skills. However, when I come across with recently learnt words, I recognise them easily. I would prefer much more audio support for such a great book. I started Alter Ego 4. Yeah, it's native, full of expressions, lots of vocab. I adore that kind of language books. I don't really care how often I have to look into dictionary for new words. While doing Alter Ego 4, I plan to revise and revise Alter Ego 3, I need to 'activate' the passive vocabulary I learnt with it. GERMAN L'Allemand - change of method. I realized that I'm absolutely not a 1-lesson-a-day Assimilist :)) I followed this method until this point and what I could remembered of previous lessons was unfortunately less than 40% of what I studied. Instead, last weekend I did immersion with L'Allemand as I had done with Assimil Russian with Ease. 5-6 lessons in a free a day and listening about 10-15 lessons countless times. If I don't feel OK for a new lesson everyday, I listen to the recordings while I commute. I think it could be also beneficial to study as 7-lesson-packs. Since every 7th lesson is already a grammatical review of the previous 6 ones, studying all the 7 lessons together can be a good idea. And especially starting a 7-lesson-pack with a quick review of the 7th lesson can be useful for better comprehension. I'll give it a try. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 16 of 16 14 December 2013 at 11:12am | IP Logged |
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Why don't you join team french for 2014?
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