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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6774 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 9 of 35 15 November 2009 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's incredibly encouraging. I've had a couple of defeats with French over the years.
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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 10 of 35 15 November 2009 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Basically it works because it's fun... kind of like a video game. The structures and vocabulary you learn with Fluenz is a bit limited, but you learn the structure and words really well, including how to manipulate them as much as possible. But because it's fun you "keep playing". It's really encouraging, great way to start a language. after which like I said switch to assimil.
The program is a little "travelish" oriented, ordering food/drinks, buying stuff, airports, restaurants, more shopping, directions, renting a car/getting insurance, describing objects/locations, going to the doctor etc... (BTW I'm thinking about selling the Fluenz course since I'm done with it, discounted of course, I'll prob. throw it up on ebay) Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 16 November 2009 at 2:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5523 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 35 16 November 2009 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I used the Assimil French course (with an English base), and I absolutely loved it. After using it for less than a week, I donated all my other French courses to the library. :-)
Assimil's two courses will get you quite far—at least to a basic conversational level, with a vocabulary of a few thousand words. You could probably start shadowing real French audiobooks (or a podcast such as "One thing in a French day") after you finished them, if you didn't mind some heavy dictionary work for a little bit. Don't miss the RFI podcasts, either, if you're interested in the news. They have a 10-minute daily news broadcast called Journal en français facile (with an accompanying transcript) that's really helped my post-Assimil listening skills. The trick is to make the gap between Assimil and interesting native materials as narrow as possible. :-) Edited by emk on 16 November 2009 at 12:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 12 of 35 25 November 2009 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Just entered the active phase of Assimil, haha I love it! Yeah, the RFI podcasts are great. French is a definitely a fun language, pronunciation can be a pain but pretty cool once you get the hang of it.
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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 13 of 35 02 January 2010 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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More about 2/3 done with Assimil (Lesson 78 of 99). I have about 90% comprehension of
RFI, and have acquired both Assimil Perfeccionamiente and Business French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 14 of 35 04 March 2010 at 4:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Got lazy during winter break but back on track. On lesson 95, so I'll be starting Using
French (Spanish base next week). I've done a ton of reading native materials and started listening to Popular Francophone music (whatever is top 40 in the Francophone world). Watching TV5 Monde now, with a high level of understanding. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5413 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 35 04 March 2010 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||
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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 16 of 35 16 April 2010 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love my MBA program, there are different kinds of MBA's tailored for different
interests so do your homework. I started doing Assimil's Using French (Spanish version). I plan on copying Each Assimil book's text 3 times (All the French Dialogs and exercises in each book) to help with my writing. I just got my Quebecois de Poche, yesterday! :) I plan on taking the DALF C1 next year (sometime in summer) at the Alliance Francais. J'aime apprendre le Francais, c'est tres belle, et je pense c'est tres importante paler non seulement duex langues...mais si je suis hispanophone et anglophone j'ai besoin de apprendre le Francais. L'Espagnol et Frances sont Cousins, n'est pas? Et dans L'Anglais il y a beaucoup de mots qui sont de origime Francais. Alors pour les gens bilangue apprendre le Francais est plus facile de aprendre a parler bien. Bien sur! Je pense que les hispanophones sont d'accord, n'est pas? Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 16 April 2010 at 8:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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