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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 1 of 3 04 July 2012 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I will be taking my family on a 2 week holiday to France and Belgium in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I've been too busy with work to do much French study, other than my daily anki + review of a Pimsleur lesson. This will be my fist visit to France after studying a bit of French, but I've only been studying it for a year.
What do you like to do in your final weeks before visiting a foreign country? Could you offer any study tips, and advice for simple conversational gambits? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 3 05 July 2012 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I went to Poland in May, I did a lot of shadowing and I had a nice pronunciation I suppose... comprehensible at least :)
I also read a lot, especially on my train to Warsaw. 3+ hours uninterrupted, wonderful. I recommend putting Pimsleur on hold really, as it's translation-based. You may want to review the specific lessons that deal with hotel rooms, timetables etc. And if you just reread the latest book you've read, you'll review a lot more in each half an hour. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5210 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 3 07 July 2012 at 7:05am | IP Logged | ||
I listened to "Fodor's French for Travelers" (published by Living Language/Random House), to brush up on some of the vocabulary I might be more likely to encounter/need; but I expect any similar CD/travel phrase book would probably also work equally well. For an online source, perhaps you might like to try IE Languages.com, which has thematically grouped vocab, with both text and MP3 sound files. Speak French Fluently has also recently added a nice blog post on "Basic patterns of conversational French for shopping". - I wished I'd been able to read that before my first trip, which involved quite a bit of hemming and hawing, and (dare I confess?) a certain amount of ordering things that I knew the vocab for, and could actually pronounce. But of course, one can't be prepared for every eventuality. To my brother's dismay, he learnt the word "complet" (as in "désolé, monsieur; l'hotel est complet") quite well (but did eventually manage to find rooms in Aix-en-Provence). Bon voyage to you and your family; hope you all have a splendid holiday! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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