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| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5838 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 9 12 August 2009 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
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I learned French for several quarters of University. I attained good grades, and then promptly forgot most of it. I
am going to France in a month so for the last month I have been working through Assimil (new French with Ease). i am on lesson 41. I decided to start the linguaphone from the 1970s for which I just got a digital version of the recordings---I had the course on cassette. I no longer work night shift which helps a lot with having a normal life with time to study and work on another language. Let's see if I am a quitter or if I will actually get myself to some decent level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Aeroflot Senior Member United States Joined 5605 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 9 12 August 2009 at 6:46am | IP Logged |
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Wow good luck. What do you think of the Assimil lessons so far?
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| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5838 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 9 16 August 2009 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
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I like them. I do not think I would have stuck with it to lesson--i think i am on 44 now---if I did not. I also
picked up the old without toil and will look through to first lessons today for fun. I completed the first linguaphone lesson---it was pretty easy in the context of my few quarters of french study back in my undergrad days as well as having gone through the first 44 lesson of Assimil the new french with ease. Actually what I really like about the NFWE is that while it might take its time introducing tenses (i think it only goes into passe compose, imparfait, plus que parfait, futur, and present subjonctif) what i really do like is that is does however introduce parts of speech like celles-ci, ce que, and such. Not that these are not introduced in a more traditional structured approach (you know the old textbooks that are used in high schools and colleges that has each chapter focusing on one grammatical topic at a time?) but it seems like you have to go a long time speaking really really simply sentences (perhaps with complex tenses though!) to get to these little connectors. So as i am on lesson 44 I should be to active phase in the next week. Perhaps my next update on this thing will be when I get some experience with that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Aeroflot Senior Member United States Joined 5605 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 9 16 August 2009 at 8:54pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah those little word combinations are tricky, especially when the apostrophe comes in, cutting the words in half.
If you haven't figured it out by now, the Assimil lessons are really up-to-date You remember those expressions "les bons comptes font les bons amis" and "une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps"? As soon as I learned those I heard them on TV. So it's not like Assimil is teaching something that you'll never use. Are you thinking of continuing on to Using French? I heard that it is full of colloquialisms, but I've never actually seen the insides of that book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5838 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 9 30 August 2009 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
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So I am on to lesson...58 or 59 of Assimil (nfwe). Started the second wave and have been enjoying that. I also
listen and read through some lessons in FWT---gone through first 15 or so. I am through the first three lessons of linguaphone. In the last couple of days I decided to act on my interest in Hungarian to start courting that language. But still my main focus is on French. Hungarian is so... different that I think I will only take in tiny little chunks at a time. But anyway progress continues is French and I am still having fun, which is think is not too bad since i have a wedding in a week (mine), have been working some overtime that last couple of weeks (weddings cost a lot), and have been working out 4-5 hours a week as well. And to Aeroflot---I do plan to continue with Using French and recently picked it up---it looks interesting and it appears to fill in grammar holes (like literary tenses and such) that NFWE leaves out. but then again, FWT also introduces passe simple sometime around lesson...50 or 60 based on my thumbing through the book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5838 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 9 01 September 2009 at 9:59pm | IP Logged |
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I have been working too much and this wedding is coming up in a few days. much stress. I think i will spend my
last hour before work looking over some Hungarian (sorry French) and take a nap. I will listen to Assimil in the car on the way to work and do a couple lesson in review at my dinner break. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5838 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 9 19 September 2009 at 10:52pm | IP Logged |
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I was in Paris for a week. I practiced survival French and bought some young adult books. One for 9, 11, and 13
and up. I am currently reading the 9 and up with not too much difficulty. I am getting back into the regular study mode again now that i am post wedding, and post honeymoon. New job starts Thursday, but that should not really pose too much of a challenge at fitting in my french studies. now hungarian... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5838 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 9 30 October 2009 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
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Still learning french. Reviewed some lessons in the car, now about back to where I will be moving forward. Subscribed to an audio-magazine and learned a lot of words related to cheese and wine. I actually like learning vocab this way.
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