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tastyonions
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 Message 49 of 64
11 February 2013 at 2:42pm | IP Logged 
Et vous pouvez écrire en français dans votre journal ici ! :-)
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fezmond
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 Message 50 of 64
11 February 2013 at 3:36pm | IP Logged 
Ah, bonne idée. Je vais essayer mais je n'ai pas beaucoup de choses interessant de
parler.



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fezmond
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 Message 51 of 64
14 February 2013 at 12:27pm | IP Logged 
Just when I thought I was doing well....

I've been good with doing my Assimil lessons this week and they don't seem too bad (today
was 59) but...I've been sucking at the active stage. Today I did lesson 10 and I keep
making really dumb mistakes, completely forgetting words (plates, dish washer). The last
few active lessons have been terrible and I keep wondering why I'm not remembering them.

Anyone else have trouble with the active stage?
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tastyonions
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 Message 52 of 64
14 February 2013 at 12:44pm | IP Logged 
Est-ce que vous relisez et réécoutez la leçon avant vous traduisez l'anglais ? Comme ça c'est beaucoup plus facile !

Des fois j'ai oublié des mots aussi. Mais ne vous en faites pas ! En mon avis la grammaire est la chose la plus importante et en plus certains de ces mots ne sont pas très utile (par exemple, je n'ai jamais utilisé "lave-vaiselle" dans une conversation avec un francophone). Je pense que si vous avez besoin d'un mot, vous l'acquerrai au cours du temps. :-)

Edited by tastyonions on 14 February 2013 at 12:53pm

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fezmond
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 Message 53 of 64
14 February 2013 at 1:50pm | IP Logged 
No, I just look at the English and try to write the French out in my notebook.

I've been neglecting the audio recently, maybe I should try some dictation.
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 Message 54 of 64
19 February 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged 
Hmmm, studies have taken a back seat to work over the last week again, just not enough
hours in the day.

I've followed tastyonions's advice and have started listening to the audio track when
I'm doing the active stage. Makes it so much easier to comprehend, though I still try
to write out as much as I can before listening.

Still don't think I'm progressing very fast except for my reading skills which seem to
be OK so far.

Maybe it's time to find some French speakers to speak to in Seoul.

Also tried a lang-8 post. Too many mistakes.... :(
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 Message 55 of 64
07 March 2013 at 4:52am | IP Logged 
Wow, been such a long time since I've updated this.

I've only done 11 lessons in NFWE in 3 weeks. I feel ashamed with my lack of effort
recently.

Assimil - lesson 71 kicks off today. Really struggled remembering the names for body
parts - fingers, ankles, elbows, chin etc. when I tried to type out the lesson a day
after studying it.

I keep wondering if I'm studying properly or not. I think I need to look more closely
at the words and try to memorize them. The active wave is going ok, though I find that
before listening to the CD I'll write out a certain way to say something and then find
the CD says effectively the same thing, but in a completely different manner.

Also struggling with hearing de/du properly and some other little words.

Grammaire Debutant - lesson 11 finished. I like this book, each lesson is short and
sweet though I sometimes make stupid mistakes with words I don't know.

Linguaphone - Unit 6 finished and half of 7. It's certainly more interesting that
Pimsleur but not sure if it is as effective. An awful lot of wasted time with jingles
and too much English. I shall persevere though.

I've started to read Le Petit Nicholas. Still on the first few pages but it's much
easier than Le Petit Prince. I still need to reach for a dictionary every few words but
it's not too bad to get the general gist of things.


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fezmond
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 Message 56 of 64
11 March 2013 at 4:54pm | IP Logged 
NFWE active wave is killing me.

I just finished lessons 22-24 after a bit of a backlog and 22 was definitely the hardest
so far. Keep making really stupid mistakes like missing plurals, messing up conjugations
and certain small words are passing me by when I'm listening to the CD.

Tough day.


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