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| Jamfrogs Newbie Australia Joined 6223 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 5 09 October 2007 at 3:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I started learning French a couple months back. I did spend some time on it in high school but absolutely loathed my teacher so that kinda put me off languages for a while. I'm a native English speaker and it is the only language I can actually speak, so this will be my first foray into (proper) language learning.
I was starting to grow disheartened because I didn't feel I was progressing at all, but I had a quick look in a bookstore last week and to my amazement I could actually read some of the titles! My current goal is to (hopefully) be able to read an Asterix comic in French by the end of the year, because I used to love them as a child. Well, that is all, and this is my first post, so hiya! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marj Senior Member United States Joined 6509 days ago 257 posts - 283 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French | Message 2 of 5 09 October 2007 at 9:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to the forums. I can relate to your French in High School experience--that's why when I took my required foreign language course in college it was Spanish.
What materials are you using to refresh (relearn) your French? Good luck with your studies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6808 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3 of 5 09 October 2007 at 9:47am | IP Logged | ||
I shall wish you good luck! I also like the way you've set yourself a very clear, concrete goal (being able to read the comic). If you want any French tips let me know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sim Diglot Groupie Canada thehelper.net/forums Joined 6233 days ago 45 posts - 48 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 5 15 October 2007 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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> My current goal is to (hopefully) be able to read an Asterix comic in French by the end of the year, because I used to love them as a child.
What a nice goal :D > I was starting to grow disheartened because I didn't feel I was progressing at all You are progressing, even though you don't notice it. The only moment when you can affirm you are not is when you just stop learning or practicing. If you did not stop, you are progressing :P Good luck Jamfrogs! Don't even think about it being our first non-native language. One must come through this first ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jamfrogs Newbie Australia Joined 6223 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 5 of 5 17 October 2007 at 9:28am | IP Logged | ||
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In response to the tools I'm using, I've gotten hold of the Pimsleur set of French, which I'm using quite a bit. I've also bought a copy of the Teach Yourself French audio CD and book, as well as a bilingual dictionary and the 'Collins Easy Learning French Grammar' book.
I've found the grammar book pretty useful as it has an alphabetical verb table appendix with about 100 verbs which is cool. Still slogging through the first Pimsleur set. I'm also using a freeware program called Selingua which is like a vocabulary building type program. It seems fairly decent so far except some of the translated words are a bit... 'vague' I guess, and some of them are homonyms, which can be confusing (one that springs to mind was right (en) and juste (fr) and there was me typing droit...). I've checked out FSI but my printer is on the blink so I haven't had the chance to print out the book (and I can't stand to read ebooks). Oh my this post is starting to get long... I chose Asterix also specifically because there are two kind of 'levels' to the comic, which I thought would be good as a kind of benchmark. I thought being able to read it and understand it would be my first benchmark at a perhaps high beginner / low intermediate level, but also by the time I could understand all the other references, such as names and such (eg. in the English comic 'Getafix') I would be at a kind of higher intermediate level... I dunno if I explained that clearly or not... Just to be able to understand all the 'adult' content without going to the dictionary. I also picked up a book from the second hand bookstore, an etymological dictionary, which is useful as a curiosity, because it has the english meaning, the foreign root and foreign meaning. Some of these words has it from Modern English <- Middle English <- Old French <- Latin <- Greek I'll be quiet now and get back to studying. Thanks for the kind words too everyone! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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