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| Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes  Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese | Message 49 of 49 12 September 2011 at 11:51am | IP Logged |
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Hi there,
It has been a long time since I last updated my log (sorry!), but I'm glad to let you know guys that everything is still proceeding according to the original plan ;) A few weeks ago I discovered that the university I'm applying to had deliberately postponed to December the French language entry test (I was originally supposed to sit on September!) and since then I basically slow down a bit the intensity of my studies. I'm obviously still sticking to the scheduled I made myself, but not being in a rush anymore, I'm now taking everything with a much more relaxed and easy - but still disciplined - approach. I'm working my way through the ASSIMIL course as usual and I'm glad to communicate you all that 3 weeks ago - and after more or less 3 months of consistent study - I was able to make my very first call in French! To be completely honest, I missed the last part of the conversation, but still I was able to manage the situation with relative ease. I felt proud of myself somehow, it was the kind of confirmation I needed. That being sad, I'm now on lesson 70 and hopefully I'll be done with the course by November at last. I keep listening obsessively to those dialogues over and over again to the point I can parrot and sometimes even anticipate the speaker. I know that in someone's eyes this approach might turn out to be counterproductive, but I'm compensating this poor strategy with tons of other audio resources for natives (eg. TV shows, series of any sort, news, etc) I think my listening abilities are improving, but sometimes I'm overwhelmed by the speed of the spoken language. As far as my reading abilities are concerned, I can understand pretty much everything (except literal texts, obviously) as long as I've got a dictionary with me. Grammatical structures don't represent a problem anymore, but I'm facing again the obstacle of the "passive vocabulary" again. In fact, as it happened for Spanish, I'm noticing in French as well a huge existent lack of balance between my active and passive knowledge of words. Hopefully, I'll fix the situation soon before it's too late... My speaking abilities are contrariwise still pretty poor. I really need to find a French-speaking buddy on Skype to start practicing with as soon as possible! But, well, I'm actually moving to Brussels within 10 days or so, I don't think I'll have much troubles finding native speakers to make some practice... My writing abilities are ok, I usually make small mistakes here and there, but nothing to be really worried about - the Prof. Arguelles's "Scriptorium Method" rocks. :) Edited by Fabrizio on 12 September 2011 at 11:53am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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