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| Aeroflot Senior Member United States Joined 5600 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 17 of 18 23 August 2009 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
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A little update:
I've found that watching films is very effective for learning new words, but looking up every single one that you don't know is slow and boring. Instead, make the process of nouvelle word acquisition into a fun game. Just put the movie on and relax with your feet up. Don't even worry about learning anything for a few minutes of the beginning of the movie. Make sure you have a small scratchpad and a pen in arm's reach. And after you're confortable, then begin looking for new words. But be sure you have word-for-word, verbatim subtitles. What you're looking for are words at look and sound interessting. A vast majority of unknown words are going to fly by, but let them--just relax and note down interesting things. Words that grab me usually end in -eaux or -ille or -euse, for example. I like to try to get all those words. Obviously you already figured out that you're going to need to watch the movie quite a few times in order to get even a good portion of the words. My exact process is to number 1-20 on the memopad and when I'm done finding 20 words I stop and add to Anki. Then continue on again for another 20 words. Generally I get about 80-100 words a movie through the first time through. Then the next time find the interesting words I missed. Even if you got all the interesting words, the next time you're going to know those words and the mind will then be satisfied and change its interests, meaning the interesting words are now ones ending in -ier or -esque, for example. Just be sure to relax, because even if you don't get all the words, you still got quite a few. And besides, while we were growing up we never knew all the words. It took a while to understand everything. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Aeroflot Senior Member United States Joined 5600 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 18 of 18 26 August 2009 at 3:48am | IP Logged |
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Okay so I went to my first French lesson today and I feel mixed emotions regarding it. First the teacher has a great accent--not perfect mind you--but it is quite spot on, especially for a non-native language teacher. I've found that I don't quite trust non-natives, but my teacher is okay. The book is nice and simple, but Assimil would blow it out of the water. What I don't like is the fact that the teacher wants us to learn grammar quite hardcore, which is the opposite of how I've been learning this past few weeks. I'm afraid that I might start thinking in grammar terms, and that is what screwed up my Spanish, so hopefully listening to a lot of French and continuing how I've been learning alongside the class will keep me safe. The class is 90 minutes once a week by the way. I'm using it mainly as a helper for pronunciation, but perhaps it will get me speaking if only a little a bit. And by the way there's a huge French film festival thing going on in a couple months and I hope to talk to a lot of people from the French embassy who are supposed to come.
Besides that, music is really helping me. I feel like even though I don't know the words in English, somehow the meaning is there anyway, perhaps radiated through emotion. Right now my listening in French is already twice as good as Spanish, and I've only been listening to French hardcore for a few weeks, and music for only half that time. I'm thinking of focusing mainly on disecting songs because even though I don't know the words, I'm singing them, and if I'm singing them then I remember, and then all I have to do is look the words up and find the meaning. There's one song Au Soleil, it's a pop song by someone whose name I forgot, and it is pretty easy to understand: I translated it today and learned some new words. Next on my list is Ma Lolita by Alizee :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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