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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5552 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 9 of 11 25 March 2011 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I haven't listend for a while, so I should try again, but I could never reconcile "tu m'aimais encore" with what I heard her saying. (I've forgotten what the problem was. I thionk the "ai" sounds more like "a" or something). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5422 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 10 of 11 29 March 2011 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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To add to all the good advice already given, I would add that as you progress to more intermediate and advanced levels, it could be very helpful to develop a repertoire of so-called set phrases that illustrate the most common grammatical patterns of French. A product that I recommend highly to my students and that I use for myself (in the Spanish version) is a system of wall charts in the form of a large wall calendar. You can find it at www.langcal.com.
My own observation is that French is not as hard as people make it out to be. In the spoken language, there is a really a relatively small core of structures that are used repeatedly. The big problem most people have is that they try to speak French through their native tongue, and that doesn't work at all. When you get into French, after a while you realize that it actually is quite straightforward. Of course, the big question is how to get there. This is where interaction with native speakers is so important. This is the number one thing most learners lack. And there is no easy solution. There are lots of good materials out there, but nothing replaces listening to and interacting with native speakers. Plus, you have to imitate, imitate, imitate. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5373 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 11 of 11 29 March 2011 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | ||
That calendar idea is great! Thanks for the link! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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