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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6807 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 9 of 30 15 May 2007 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Did about 1 hour on Hugo French in 3 Months, and as ever I have focussed in on grammar, as I believe once I master "the mechanics" of the language, I'll learn quicker.
Today I learned more about negation - ne...personne - ne...rien - ne...jamais - ne...plus Still trying to understand it more, so if anyone can explain it more, let me know. I also did some work on this/that - ce/cet/cette/ces Also on how to distinguish - ce train ci (this train here) - ce train là (that train there) Finally, I did some work on "ir" verbs and seem to have noticed a pattern. In the plural, its the same rules as for "er", but preceded by "iss". Things I did well: * picked up on the grammar of this/that etc. * learned how to conjugate "ir" and spotted a short cut pattern. * learned more about negation. * refereshed my knowledge of m/f adjectives. Things that need more work: * so far, everything is good but I need to remind myself of the plurals of adjectives more. Edited by FuroraCeltica on 15 May 2007 at 5:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6807 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 10 of 30 17 May 2007 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Last night I continued to work through Hugo French in 3 months, for one hour and I worked on question words (quand, qui, comment, combien etc). This also included forms of what/which
* quel(s), quelle(s) * comment * qui * quand * pourquoi * combien (also that you use de/d' in the negative after it All in all interesting, but slow paced because I was tired. * Things I did well: - pronounced the words correctly - remembered the words for questions - mastered the forms of quel * Things I need to work on - "ils/els parlent" it sounds like you don't pronounce the last syllable and this seems strange to me. Is it true? edit: typo Edited by FuroraCeltica on 18 May 2007 at 3:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6957 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 30 17 May 2007 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, welcome to the amazing world of French pronunciation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6807 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 12 of 30 18 May 2007 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Last night I did about 45 minutes of Hugo French in 3 months and 15 minutes of Teach Yourself Instant French. I worked on possessives
* mon/ma/mes * ton/ta/tes * son/sa/ses * leur/leurs I also listened to the first two dialogues of TY Instant French. I've noticed that even though I don't know a lot of the words, I've noticed grammar patterns and prounciation rules. Very encouraging! Today I also bought a large French dictionary with pronounciation software and Barrons new edition of 501 French verbs. I intend to continue to focus on grammar and pronounciation, and then "pad out" with voabulary. Within 90 days I feel I will be at a very acceptable level. I'm about to start some more French. Wish me luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6381 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 13 of 30 18 May 2007 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck!
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6807 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 14 of 30 19 May 2007 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Last night I was on a roll and did 1 hour 50 minutes! I found the 501 verbs to be an extremely useful resource.
I worked on reviewing all I've covered so far in Hugo French in 3 Months. I looked at how "lundi" is different to "le lundi": that is, le lundi means you do it often, whereas lundi is just the day. I also made some flash cards for regular "ir" verbs. Instead of making a traditional flash card (target language word on one side, your language on the other), I made it with the verb and translation on one side, and related word on the back. e.g. choisir: la choix etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6807 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 15 of 30 20 May 2007 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Last night I did just under 2 hours on Hugo French in 3 months, spent most of that time making flash cards for vocabulary and verbs/related words. I also felt pleased because I noticed that "ment" seems to correspont in most cases to the English "ly" in adjectives.
Still doing so work today as I write, but will write tonight with how I've done. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6807 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 16 of 30 21 May 2007 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Last night I did a touch under 1.5 hours on Hugo French in 3 Months, and also week 1 of TY Instant French. I did the end of unit test for Hugo, and was a little disappointed to get 57%. Having said that I did mark myself very harshly, like subtracting a mark for not writing an accent. I did much better on the TY Instant French end of unit test, getting 93%...I like! The only things I got mixed up were "c'est" and "est" and the prepositions "en/chez/" etc.
Things I did well: * good verb conjugation including of irregulars and in different tenses * correct gender agreement of adjectives Things that need improvement: * prepositions * spelling 1 person has voted this message useful |
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