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| ekendahl Diglot Newbie ekendahl.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5398 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English | Message 1 of 9 12 February 2010 at 5:14pm | IP Logged |
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I want to start learning French by myself. My wife is Swiss and I'm Swedish but we live
in the States. Our goal is to raise our daughter trilingual. To do that I need to pick up enough French to get by. Looking at http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=French they have added new language courses. I tried the French Basic course about 2 years ago but I found it hard to do on your own. The Headstart for Belgium seem more aimed at self study. Does anyone have experience with this course? Is it good? or should I try to slog through the Basic French one? I want to learn enough French on my own over the next 18 month (with very limited time) and then start taking French classes later on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 9 12 February 2010 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
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What are the three languages and how are you planning on presenting them?
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| ekendahl Diglot Newbie ekendahl.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5398 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English | Message 3 of 9 12 February 2010 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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We are planning English, French and Swedish. I'm Swedish my wife Swiss (French) and we live in US. Our daughter is
6 months at the moment. Our long term goal is to put her into a french school here in US. We also consistently speak only Swedish and French to her (i.e I speak Swedish with her my wife French). English she gets by just living here and the fact that it's the common language in our house. There is a small Swedish Saturday school where I live that we hope to use as well. We also have an au-pair and plan to have Swedish au-pairs in the future. The issue is that my wife by now speaks quite a bit of Swedish but I speak NO french. I want to learn french so that I can understand what they talk about and also speak with my daughter in French as well. So I'm trying to find a course for ME to learn french from. It seems that the head start belgium is more for home study while the Basic French is for the class room. I know that the basic french is good but it's also daunting. I'm wondering if the Head Start Belgium is worth the time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6033 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 4 of 9 12 February 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
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Cool idea, your daughter is lucky to have such considerate parents.
1) The most well known free course is French in Action, and it's not bad but maybe a bit old-fashioned. (link) 2) FSI; From what I gather FSI courses are very dull, so expect a lot of boring drills if you go that way. Haven't tried it myself link 3) The BBC has a short course for absolute beginners; Radio France Internationale has some more advanced stuff - Easy French news emission, some games, tests and so on ( link and another link ). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Toufik18 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Algeria Joined 5743 days ago 188 posts - 202 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (classical)*, French, English | Message 5 of 9 12 February 2010 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
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Try FSI and this website http://www.francaisfacile.com/index.php
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| Toufik18 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Algeria Joined 5743 days ago 188 posts - 202 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (classical)*, French, English | Message 6 of 9 12 February 2010 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
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Also, I wish I had parents like your daughter have :)
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| ekendahl Diglot Newbie ekendahl.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5398 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English | Message 7 of 9 12 February 2010 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you for the answers/ The French in Action seems interesting in that it's video as well. Makes it a little
easier to get into. The FSI course is most likely great if you follow them in a class and spend 45 hours a week doing it. I would love to have that type of time! In reality this will have to be in the evenings, in the car and during short breaks. Which makes the task that much more daunting. There is something about the French language that scares me. I will look at the http://www.francaisfacile.com/ as well. Do anyone have direct experience with this class (my original question): http://www.fsi-language- courses.org/Content.php?page=French%20Headstart%20for%20Belg ium Seems more like a self study course and seem more accessible then the base FSI course. It's great to see so many good free options. I will try to learn from all of them. Perhaps starting with the video classes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nutts Triglot Newbie Japan Joined 6046 days ago 11 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 9 13 February 2010 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
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It's not free, but lots of people here rave about the Assimil courses.
The reason I mention it, is that it seems to suit your 'evenings, in the car, and during short breaks' schedule. Assimil is built up from many small dialogues, that you begin by simply listening to over and over. I've just started Assimil German myself (literally - lesson 2 today), and I have to say it is fun so far; the short dialogues are amusing, and easy to listen to over and over. There are only a few notes that run alongside each dialogue, that you can read when you have reading time available. Not sure about the US prices, but the Assimil 'French with ease' course with CDs is available on Amazon UK for about 35 GBP ($55). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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