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| FrenchLanguage Senior Member Germany Joined 5736 days ago 122 posts - 135 votes  | Message 1 of 11 06 April 2010 at 1:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello everyone,
I think Ive mentioned this some time in the past. I do not have this problem with English (never had it in any way), but one thing I've come to realize is that even though I like French a lot, sometimes I have phases when I sort of think it sounds weird listening to it and speaking it. Please dont get me wrong, I dont have these moments that often (mostly overlaps with times when I'm in a depressive mood or burnt out from college - maybe they'll be gone completely when Im done with college)...like I said please dont get me wrong, there are actually more moments when I enjoy the sound of French a lot ;-). However, this is something that would keep me from moving to France. I cant imagine speaking French all day every day and making it my main language so to speak. Does anyone else know of this problem? I'm thinking of moving to another country after college and wouldnt mind learning a new language, but it'd better be a language where I'll hopefully never come across this problem (e.g. English). I've been hoping the reason might be that French and German sound so different from one another, whereas English and German sound sort of similar. Anyone know the feeling? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 2 of 11 06 April 2010 at 1:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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Every day when I studied Mandarin in college :-P
Don't give up hope though, eventually those phases will pass. (That's why they're called phases!) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 11 06 April 2010 at 2:03am | IP Logged | |||||
How do you find any motivation to learn the language when you are reluctant to speaking it? Personally, it's the opposite: the idea of speaking another language full-time is really attractive and I'd move just to do that (well, if it wasn't for the job, the kids, the wife, etc.). Edited by Arekkusu on 06 April 2010 at 2:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 4 of 11 06 April 2010 at 4:02am | IP Logged | |||||
Between you and I have a secret desire of busting the door down when I come home from work (Instead of "Honey, I'm home!") It's "Honey! Pack your bags we leave in the morning for [insert exotic foreign land] :D I'm really weighing my options with this. A part of me wants to enjoy life with my family and explore the world. Money wouldn't even be an issue to me, I don't really care. (What I mean is a job I truly enjoy > money) I can only hope that I can live my dreams. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 11 06 April 2010 at 9:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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If you moved to France you would be surrounded by people who spoke French 24x7, so it would stop sounding weird to you after just a few days. And then you wouldn't be able to imagine why you thought it would be a problem.
If English doesn't make the same weird impression on you now it could be a result of the pervasiveness of English even in Germany (outside the German television, of course). So if the sound of French is your only problem about moving you shouldn't let it block you. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 11 07 April 2010 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
That. I tend to have this feeling all the time when I'm mentally exhausted. It goes away with a bit of rest. (And it makes me mishear things in awesome ways.) When you're tired, exhausted, burnt out etc this means that your self regulatory ressources are used up for the time being and you need rest to be able to concentrate well again/make good decisions, plan etc. Now, just some days ago I read an interesting article about a study that showed that the perception of sounds as phonemes also draws on this ressource. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| FrenchLanguage Senior Member Germany Joined 5736 days ago 122 posts - 135 votes | Message 7 of 11 07 April 2010 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Arreksu(sp?): I'm not learning or studying French anymore..I can already speak it..I only started having this slight problem during the last 2 years or so (makes me wonder if it's really nothing but the burn out thing now that bao mentions he knows the feeling).
It's also not there all the time, and simply maintaining my level of French hasn't been too hard (watching a DVD or two once a month...chatting with someone in french on the web once a month rather accidentally)..havent really lost any of it (must say I'm fairly surprised myself how easy it has been to maintain my grasp of French) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vinlander Groupie Canada Joined 5821 days ago 62 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 11 08 April 2010 at 5:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm guessing here but i think you might be talking about tranny syndrome. You here a language, to your ears it sounds familiar, just like a tranny, however your brain goes limp when it can figure out the mechanics. With french my brain trys to make it like English, because on the surface they sound similar. However in reality there very different when it comes to internal structure. So my brains when hearing it constantly feels like a dog pretending to be a cat.
I find french it so wacky to learn. I like German alot more because on the surface, it's completely different and novel. Yet when you internalize it, it's closer to English. I donno if that helps but that's my 2 cents. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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