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| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 3 15 April 2011 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
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I came across Moses McCormick's FLR technique recently (http://how-to-learn-any-
language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18808&PN=1), and it got me thinking about learning standard phrases which would be useful to memorize. Some may object to memorization, and since I'm new to this I can't say that I know better, but my reasoning is that it would be good to memorize several (or perhaps many) phrases so as to not frustrate the native your speaking with. Sure, if you're a beginner you're going to have trouble forming sentences and the native speaker will have to be somewhat patient, but I'm thinking that it would make things more pleasant for both parties if the learner could use common conversational phrases with ease. I've looked at phrasebooks, but all of them have been aimed at travelers and have travel related phrases. What I'm looking for is a set of phrases that can be used if you meet someone new, and you've want to get to know one another and chat for a bit. Examples would be: "How's your (wife/husband/etc...) doing?" "Have you seen any good movies lately?" "What do you think about...?" "Do you know what time it is?" "Have you heard about....?" And so on. This is basically an extension of what Moses suggests, but his phrases are more focused towards language learning and travel, which is fine, but not everyone is interested in those same things. Some people my object on the basis of everyone needing to learn words and phrases based on their own interests and what situations they'd find themselves in, but I do think that we use a large number of automatic or "stock" phrases when engaged in small talk. If anyone knows of a list of such phrases I'd be happy to hear about it. If not I would be interested in hearing suggestions. If there is interest from others I can collect the replies and put them into a list in this post. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tbone Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4992 days ago 92 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 2 of 3 15 April 2011 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
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Check out 'conversational connectors':
http://sites.google.com/site/fluentczech/connectorstarterpac k Which is linked to by http://www.fluentin3months.com/conversational-connectors-how -to-fake-having-a-conversation-just-after- starting-to-learn-a-language/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5431 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 3 of 3 15 April 2011 at 9:37pm | IP Logged |
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If you're looking for something at a pretty high level and really focused on grammar and idioms, you should look at language calendars for French, Spanish or English at www.langcal.com. My only caution is that this stuff is not for beginners. I use the Spanish one every day. As I write this, I'm looking at it on the wall in front of me.
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