hakysak123 Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 6189 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: French, English*, Armenian*
| Message 1 of 3 21 April 2009 at 9:24pm | IP Logged |
A few years ago I started to learn French, and I got to a conversational level. I decided to go study in France for six months, where my French got very good (a very high degree of conversation ability, a few notches below fluent).
I left France two years ago and basically stopped practicing and/or speaking the language. I forgot a lot of what I had when it comes to speaking, though I retained most of my written and oral comprehension. My speaking is where I lost the most. My question is, is it possible to return to where I was, and how do I do that?
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leonidus Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6268 days ago 113 posts - 123 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: German, Mandarin
| Message 2 of 3 21 April 2009 at 10:12pm | IP Logged |
If you don't use it, you lose it. How you do that? By speaking.
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Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5707 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 3 of 3 22 April 2009 at 10:04am | IP Logged |
I had a 13 year break from French, and I got myself back up to the same level after only a few weeks intensive study. I still have problems with speaking, but then my speaking skills were quite weak before the break anyway.
My advice would be to go over a few books for revision, listen to some French radio or watch French TV, then just take the plunge and find yourself a native speaker to practise with regularly.
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