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| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4649 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 17 20 June 2012 at 1:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Bonjour :)
I have been learning French for a week or so. I learnt French in high school but I have forgotten it all. I want to be able to talk to people in French. I want to reach a conversational level in French. I am using Teach Yourself and using Lingq,memrise,livemocha and busuu to learn French. I will listen to the French radio for 30 minutes or longer each day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4607 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 2 of 17 20 June 2012 at 1:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Bonjour!
I use LingQ as well, along with French In Action. I've been learning for a couple months now. I hope you are successful with your goals. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4649 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 17 20 June 2012 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
:) I like Lingq because I can listen to the audio. What's french in action? I have never heard of it. hehe Merci :) I am improving. Edited by happycheeks on 20 June 2012 at 2:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4607 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 17 20 June 2012 at 3:11am | IP Logged | ||
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French In Action is a video series introducing French, made entirely in French (except for the first video). The videos are at this site, but unfortunately I think it may work only for U.S. and Canada viewers. I am about halfway through the series.
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| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4649 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 17 20 June 2012 at 10:27am | IP Logged | ||
It does work for me :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4649 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 17 26 June 2012 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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My language learning plan isn't going too well. I am not feeling motivated as I want to
be. This will be my new plan. -Listen to the french/belgian (french too) radio. For 1 hour or 40 minutes - Review flashcards and make sentences with the words.- I'll do this for 40 minutes. - go on lingq and review the words and audio. I'll do this for 40 minutes. - watch french lessons on youtube and repeat after what the person says. I'll do this for an hour or two. That's all I can think of. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4649 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 17 27 June 2012 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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27th June
French I listened to the French radio. I done this for about 30 minutes and then I concentrated on producing the French R sound. I think I can do the French R. When I listened to the radio, I concentrated on the sounds. It's not too fast for me. Then, I reviewed flashcards on byki and I enjoyed it. I read the French words out loud. I enjoy learning French sentences. I don't want to bore myself to death with listening to the "teach yourself French" audio. I love listening to french TV or radio. I reviewed the flashcards for about 40 minutes. I couldn't do too much today because I didn't have enough energy. I have gained my energy back and I need a good rest for tomorrow. More studying and listening tomorrow ^_^ Edited by happycheeks on 27 June 2012 at 11:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5474 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 17 28 June 2012 at 4:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Motivation is really the important thing, isn't it?
I personally have a couple of tricks for boosting motivation: 1) Put a single-page, full-year calendar on your wall, and cross out every day that you study in red. Try to get a nice, long line of unbroken red. This idea is thanks to Seinfeld, who once wrote jokes every single day. 2) Find things that are really fun. At beginner levels, this probably requires a lot of creativity, but maybe LyricsTraining or cool music would be a great start. 3) When all else fails, find things which are both fun and brainless. 4) And the brutal yet amazingly effective one: Once you have the ability to carry on a rudimentary conversation, try to have some people with whom you interact solely in French. This is how Benny Lewis the blogger does it, and I can personally testify that it's an incredible source of motivation. As khatzumoto at AJATT points out, you can't really rely on naked willpower and hard work, not all the way to fluency. You need some combination of deeply-ingrainted habits, an environment full of your TL, and an awful lot of tempting fun. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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