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Tags: TellMeMore | Fluenz | Linguaphone | Flash cards | Michel Thomas | Self-Study | Spaced Repetition (SRS) | Diploma/Certificate | Study Plan | Fluency | Dutch | Pimsleur | FSI | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Assimil | French | ||
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 201 of 451 01 October 2014 at 8:48am | IP Logged | |||||
Awesome. You've really been digging in. Lucky Luke. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4008 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 202 of 451 01 October 2014 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
I always find your log so motivating, and helps to propel me to do more! I particularly like how you capture all your hours in various categories that you spend on a language activities! You are doing a fantastic job! Keep up the great work! :) Queen Mohave 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 203 of 451 04 October 2014 at 5:16am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the feedback King Jeffers, Lang-8 is a wise idea I agree. That will certainly assist in developing one's preparedness for conversations. For myself I really feel like conversations at this point will certainly ensure that a lot of the seemingly random phrases, expressions, idioms, words in my flashcard deck (which is basically a record of all the French I've 'learned' through courses and some other means) will start to feel natural. Right now it's more like rote reproduction with an interspersing of some French that feels natural. ie I might have learned however many phrases, words etc (9000+) BUT reproducing them naturally in the right context at the moment would only hapen for perhaps 10% of that 'learned' material. I still feel more comfortable having a Spanish or Dutch conversation on the fly despite a seemingly much much smaller vocabularly in those languages. This is imo due to the fact I have spent prolonged periods conversing in these languages in a natural setting. I have the confidence to fumble around and try to converse with these languages, but know I"m very limited. Whereas in French i'm not limited for vocab but am seriously lacking 'natural exposure' in terms of being involved in conversations. This is obviously a result of structured self guided lessons that focus predominantly on intensive study. I am gradually developing a rising internal feeling that I need to introduce more conversation. All the while I want to continue using all my current methods as it is 'working' to a degree, I mean I can read and write better than I could some time ago, and I can speak with a higher proficiency, but it's all rather stilted and unnatural. Thing is it's not as easy to find oportunities to converse as it is to continue using my courses etc. Having said that it's not that difficult either, so I need to make some gradual change here, even if it's simply my 2015 resolution to work towards using more and more French in natural contexts. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 204 of 451 04 October 2014 at 5:35am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks Lucky Luke :) I appreciate the support from everyone here :) We all need support. As per your log Luke you are making good steady progress as well :) Slow and steady wins the race... I used to behave a lot like the hare - spurts of massive amounts of language study followed by massive amounts of nothing = very medicre progress over the years. Nowadays I'm more like a tortoise- ensuring that I do a good amount each day (or just 'some' French on my slower days). Not to mention I have taken to swimming vast lengths of the open ocean, sometimes to great depths. Be wise, stay lucky ;) That's what Prime Minister Peter Mollenburg would say to Lucky Luke, According to PM, Lucky Luke would say, "I am not so sure you're Prime Minister material, you're more suited to intensive language study". PM then envisioned Lucky Luke saying, "I remember the time peas were peas, crops were crops and trees were trees, the bees were happy and there was no disease. Luck is largely created, and I create my own luck by leaving most things be." 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 205 of 451 04 October 2014 at 5:46am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks Queen Mohave, You crossed my mind last night as I watched a French/Belgian film called "Rien à déclarer - Nothing to Declared. A silly comedy about the introduction of the EU and the cessation of border checks. I hope all is well over there in Belgique. PM 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 206 of 451 04 October 2014 at 10:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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When I tweeted my Hindi film of the week (Friday night is becoming Hindi film night) I saw that you had tweeted Rien à déclarer. That's one of my favourite French films! I think I saw it 4 times over the last super challenge, and so far once this super challenge. I actually bought it because it supposedly has accurate French subtitles, but I've watched it with my family, so we keep needing the English subs.
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| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4008 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 207 of 451 04 October 2014 at 1:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think I am going to try to find this DVD while I am here! Thanks for the recommendation!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 208 of 451 06 October 2014 at 6:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think I'm going to cut back on the amount of materials i'm using...
Here's a bit of dribble... Due to me needing to come back to my desk and read over the pdf's for Rocket French and add the new terms to my flashcards it's eating into my desk study time (usually audio courses that I listen to while commuting require much less review time at my desk if any). Also, trying to review more cards rather than have them build up, each hour of any kind of study including courses contains 30min of flashcard reviews. This amounts to not much course exposure. So i'm considering dropping Tell me more French just for the moment while focusing on Assimil's NFWE. My current rotation involves an hour of coursework (NFWE) an hour of Yabla an hour of reading an hour of another course (Tell me more). (each hour only being 30 min as the other 30min is flashcard reviews) My new method will involve: an hour NFWE an hour Yabla an hour reading in fact I might even cut Yabla for a little bit.. anyway like most of us i'm just chaning things up for a bit as i'm not happy with my slowish progress. Obviously it's all learning but the sense of progressing through a course/study method of some sort, gives a sense of achievement. So perhaps i'll focus on just NFWE and reading for me. PM 1 person has voted this message useful |
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