moisa Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 6618 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 1 of 3 14 December 2007 at 12:30pm | IP Logged |
One day I woke up put the RFI Journal en Français Facile and I was actually understanding what they were talking about. On that morning I realized that the effort I have made for more or less a year really worths it. What I really like on this experience is the fact that all my study resources were found in the internet.
First I bumped on this forum where I heard for the first time about pimsleur which I had access trough the net either. After finishing pimsleur, it wasn't difficult starting reading news in the websites, listen to the radio,in my case RFI a lot, and online courses. Now I am also able to watch french films and speak to french speakers I have access.
A month ago I decided to find help and hired a french tutor who also teaches in Alliance française to get a certificate.She tested my level and advised me to go straight for dalf. I have to work a lot, specially on my writing, but I will take it in the middle of next year.
The best point of my story like many in this forum is how internet can be a magnificent tool for language learning.
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moisa Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 6618 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 2 of 3 25 December 2007 at 3:21pm | IP Logged |
At this moment I am trying to read a novel in french and it is still very slow. I can get the meaning of many verbs and nouns, but some tenses like l'imparfait is rather frustrated. I know the explanation why they used it, but it doesn't come naturally to me. I would have used other tense instead if I was writing a text in french.
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Sim Diglot Groupie Canada thehelper.net/forums Joined 6233 days ago 45 posts - 48 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 3 of 3 04 January 2008 at 2:34pm | IP Logged |
French is sometimes not instinctive to those who learn it.
The only thing you can do to help the learning process is to read and listen to more and more of it, for the verb tenses to come instinctively when speaking or writing.
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