|
 |
Help me to learn to like French again | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Advice Center |  | |
| GettingThere Newbie United States Joined 6257 days ago 24 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 9 of 17 11 December 2007 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I really think I know what you mean. I've had similar problems with flash backs and stuff, and it is not fun. I think it might help, though, to realize that people are just people. No matter where you go, there are good people and bad people everywhere. The people you were talking about were not like that because they were French--their nationality had nothing to do with it. It was just because they had problems.
Maybe you could get a French-speaking pen pal to email. Making friends with a French person, or Canadian, or Swiss, or whatever would probably help. Maybe replace some of your bad experiences with some good ones. French is such a great language, I'm glad that you're not wanting to give it up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doing_kermit Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6200 days ago 68 posts - 68 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Catalan, French | Message 10 of 17 22 December 2007 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd second that recommendation, "Le Petit Prince" is a great little story. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| magic9man2 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6637 days ago 149 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Taiwanese, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 11 of 17 25 December 2007 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Maybe you should try starting from the beginning to remember what you liked about it in the first place. If you really don't like the language anymore, maybe you should try a new language. It would be a lot of work for something you dont even want.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6130 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 12 of 17 09 July 2008 at 11:22am | IP Logged | ||
|
Wow, how could you not like French!?!? I love it for so many reasons, the incredible beauty of the language, the cuisine, the culture, poetry, literature. It is spoken in so many countries. English derives much of it’s vocabulary from French. I really think it is worth shrugging off the negatives and focusing on the positive aspects of the language.
Hopefully by now you have recovered your love for the language (I found this thread while doing a search on French Poetry). If not, try getting into some French films, podcasts, books, etc. from French speaking countries other than France (which is where I assume you had the bad experiences), e.g., Quebec, Belgium, Africa, Switzerland, etc.. I find African and Québécoise French especially interesting. Radio France International has a really cool podcast vis-à-vis African French. Edited by JW on 09 July 2008 at 11:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| gilozoaire Newbie Belgium Joined 5895 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: French* Studies: Mandarin | Message 14 of 17 12 October 2008 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm sorry for those people who were rude to you but we french speakers are not all like that. Since your problem seems to come from a negative reinforcement with the language, I would try to buy dvd's by humourists and so on. It would allow you to make positive and pleasant associations with the language. Also making friends with friendly french speaking people would also help you forget those past experiences. Allez, courage! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| phauna Newbie Japan Joined 6073 days ago 15 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French | Message 15 of 17 20 November 2008 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
|
Perhaps you need some French swear words in your arsenal to feel stronger if you have another bad experience.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5985 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 17 20 November 2008 at 11:38am | IP Logged | ||
|
You need to disassociate the language from those bad experiences you had. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Just to give you some perspective, there are Korean and Vietnamese POW's that have learned to speak the language of their captors and they have maintained their fluency regardless of those bad experiences. I'm sure they went through a lot worse than what you have gone through. If they can put all that aside then you should also be able to. Knowing another language is always a valuable asset. Don't let past experiences rob you of this asset. Edited by jimbo baby! on 20 November 2008 at 11:42am 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
