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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6714 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 17 of 30 21 May 2007 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I continued with Hugo French in 3 Months and did 1 hour 20-30. Today I looked at "re" verbs, and found them pretty tricky! I found that verbs which have "mettre" or "prendre" in the stem are irregular. I did figure out a pattern but its still a little tricky.
Things I did well: * identified a pattern with mettre/prendre verbs. Things that need work: * memorising the pattern. * mastering the perfect tense (avoir+verb). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6714 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 18 of 30 24 May 2007 at 7:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I have been unwell for the past few days, so my practice has declined. However, I did manage 30 minutes or so yesterday, and scored 85% in the end of unit test for week 2 of "Teach Yourself Instant French". Today I received a lexical frequency dictionary of French, which should be helpful.
Things I need to improve: * I got "est" mixed up with "c'est". * gender. For the task "the car is big" I said "La voiture est grande" as opposed to "elle est grande". * I somehow managed to mix up "avoir" with "aller". * I got "êtes" mixed up with "est". Edited by FuroraCeltica on 24 May 2007 at 7:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6714 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 19 of 30 26 May 2007 at 6:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been getting a lot better (at least health wise lol) and did one hour of French last, concentrating on direct pronouns
e.g. Je l'ai invite I got confused with the plural "les", and accidentally abbreviated it as "l'" in some cases. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6714 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 20 of 30 28 May 2007 at 6:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Last night I did 1 hour on "Hugo French in 3 Months" and worked on the future tense of verbs
- ai, as, a, ons, ez, ont I also learned the irregular future verbs, and was really pleased to have detected a pattern, largely assisted by my knowledge of Spanish. venir, aller, etre I noticed that in the future tense, they behave similar to Spanish future tense. etre ---> serai, seras, sera This reminded me of the Spanish future tense of "ser", and once you add the verb ending for future tense to it, its easier to remember. aller ---> irai, iras, ira this reminded me of the Spanish verb "ir" in its future tense forms, and thus was much easier to remember. venir ---> vendrai, vendras This reminded me of certain Spanish verbs of "tendré" etc, making it easier to remember I also found that the other irregular verbs were surprisingly easy as well, and all this really helped and boosted my confidence. I needed this because the last few days I have been ill and had to skip study. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6714 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 21 of 30 31 May 2007 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have been away on business for two days, and did about 1.5 hours of French focusing on verb tenses, such as the imperfect tense (was/were ...ing) and the future tense. I also got 88% in an end of unit test in TY Instant French. All in all, things are going well, although my vocabulary is small, even if my grammar is reasonably good.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6714 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 22 of 30 27 September 2007 at 9:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I have been offered a job in Belgium, so I know have an added incentive to learn French! I haven't made an entry here for some time but I have still been studying French, albeit in shorter bursts due to other time commitments.
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| Marj Senior Member United States Joined 6415 days ago 257 posts - 283 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French | Message 23 of 30 27 September 2007 at 11:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations on the job offer. If you take the job in Belgium it should help you improve your French quickly from what I've heard about immersion! Good luck.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6714 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 24 of 30 28 September 2007 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||
Thank you, I am very excited about it! My French today was on the imperfect tense. I found it a little tricky, and forgot the proper endings in the plural. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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