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| Scorpicus Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5335 days ago 27 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, ItalianB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 4 30 April 2010 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
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Hi all: (reasonably) long time lurker, first time poster. Apologies in adavance if this post comes across as rather noob-ish.
Next year, from January 2011, I will be spending six months in Morocco on my University's exchange program. As you probably know, Morocco is an old French colony, and so I think this is a wonderful oppurtunity and motivation to learn French language (and, of course, some survival Arabic!). Next academic year (in the six months leading up to my exchange) I can take French as a class at my home University to prepare, however, there is no "beginner" course, and the lowest level it is taught at is an intermediate class, preparing for the B1. This is unhelpful when you consider my only French background is two years taught at school when I was aged 12/13. In other words, my current level of French is an absoloute zero. Thus, in order to benifit from the B1 class, I am planning to rigourously attack the language over my 2 month summer holiday, aiming to be past the A2 standard by September. And by January, around/approaching a B1 standard in order to face (and survive!) Morocco. Considering I have an intermediate standard of Italian (vocabulaly of approximately 3000 words) I think these are feasible objectives(?). Here is my (noob-ish) query: Which combination of French textbooks/learning materials would you advise to effectively (and rapidly) self-study French to a B1 standard? Bearing in mind that I'm a poor student on a tight budget, so spending 200€ on a piece of swanky software really isn't an option. I've found with other languages that following two textbooks simultaneously supplemented with lots (and lots and lots) of listening material is the best plan. My problem for French is: Which?! Thankyou in advance for your wise advice :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7188 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 2 of 4 30 April 2010 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
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Get Assimil New French with Ease with both the book and the CDs. I'm currently using this course and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a bit expensive (€60) but well worth the cost. The course advertises that upon completion you will be at a B2, and while this may be a bit of an exaggeration, I'm confident I will at the very least be close to this when I finish.
Look around the forum for other testimonials. There are a number of very accomplished language learners who swear by this course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5677 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 3 of 4 30 April 2010 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
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Assimil is a fine choice. More thorough (but boring) options include FSI and DLI courses.
Generally speaking, stay away from academic textbooks. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Scorpicus Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5335 days ago 27 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, ItalianB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 4 01 May 2010 at 8:31pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the tips guys. My copy of Assimil is in the post!
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