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| Garrett85 Newbie United States Joined 5432 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Studies: French | Message 1 of 6 26 November 2010 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
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I've been trying to learn French for some time now but I've come to a stale mate. The best thing I ever found was the pimsleur program, 100 thirty minute lessons. I completed them all while driving to work, but now that I'M done, what now? Pimsleur was the best audio constructed lessons I found, but lacked a great deal in the written part. Thanks for any suggestions.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 6 26 November 2010 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
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There's a ton of superb learning material out there for French. Are you restricted to learning in your car? What are
your goals? What is your level? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Garrett85 Newbie United States Joined 5432 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 6 27 November 2010 at 12:31am | IP Logged |
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Well, I guess I could go to France and get by with directions and what not. I'M not limited to car only but it seem to be the best choice. I use Linux rather than Windows so that pretty mush kill the software option, not that there are a lot of good ones anyway.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 4 of 6 27 November 2010 at 2:11am | IP Logged |
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You didn't mention your level, so I assume Pimsleur is it.
Car 1) Michel Thomas, Foundation + Advanced. It will very quickly give you the grammar basics. 2) Learn in your car - great for reinforcing grammar and adding vocabulary. Out of car 1) French in Acton videos. Watch one show per day. Buy the textbook cheap and read the dialogue of the show you watch. 2) Skype language partner. Get as much practice conversing as possible Eventually you'll want to graduate to French novels, French movies and a French lover, but that comes later ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 5 of 6 27 November 2010 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
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You can also try polarfle.com , easy readers, online French blogs or newspapers, French
movies (DVDs should contain the French audio track) and eventually graduate to reading a thrilling book such as Dan Brown in French. Some also like the Little Prince or Harry Potter. It helps to know the plot for your first attempt at real French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| eumiro Bilingual Octoglot Groupie Germany Joined 5275 days ago 74 posts - 102 votes Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, French, English, German, Polish, Spanish, Russian Studies: Italian, Hungarian | Message 6 of 6 27 November 2010 at 5:45pm | IP Logged |
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Podcasts work on Linux perfectly too... ;-)
Check one of the following: http://www.rfi.fr/ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,265,00.html http://www.radio.cz/fr or search for other French services of international radio stations. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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