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| FrenchLanguage Senior Member Germany Joined 5736 days ago 122 posts - 135 votes  | Message 1 of 43 12 March 2009 at 10:53am | IP Logged |
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Hello,
I have been wondering what the main problems of people trying to learn the French language were. For me it has to be listening comprehension. However, I think understanding spoken language is one of my weak areas in general (even in German, which is my mother tongue ;)), whereas I have little trouble with grammar and "details". What's your main problem with French? Listening? or Grammar? or something else? thank you! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5765 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 2 of 43 12 March 2009 at 11:59am | IP Logged |
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Listening- because French people speak so fast. And speaking, because it's not a language that is very tolerant of mistakes, unlike English where you can mangle sentences really badly and still be understood by natives.
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| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5883 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 3 of 43 12 March 2009 at 12:25pm | IP Logged |
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I find that it is writing essay's in very complex language. Wherever I try to write a litterature essay, I always much things up. Really annoying.
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 5 of 43 12 March 2009 at 12:45pm | IP Logged |
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Liaison between words. I can still be tripped up by it when speaking French.
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| .automne Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 5828 days ago 56 posts - 57 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: French | Message 6 of 43 12 March 2009 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
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Understanding spoken French is the biggest problem. The rest is not all that problematic for me. Vocabulary and grammar, those things are just a matter of repetition. You could argue that listening is also about repetition, and I suppose it is...only, it just doesn't feel that way... :S A lot of words are recognizable, but too many words and expressions sound exactly the same (to me). But I'm not panicking yet. My reading is still not fluent, so expecting to understand spoken language would be a bit premature. After all, it's hopeless to consciously analyze sentences in real time.
Thing about French pronounciation though: It's weird reading a sentence, then hearing someone pronounce it, and realising half the sentence is simply...gone! Edited by .automne on 12 March 2009 at 3:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| FrenchLanguage Senior Member Germany Joined 5736 days ago 122 posts - 135 votes | Message 7 of 43 12 March 2009 at 2:27pm | IP Logged |
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Hehe..thanks for the replies so far..
@automne: You shouldnt be panicking, yet. I was already fairly fluent in written French, but still had a terribly hard time understanding anything that was not spoken slowly. Now, a few years later (Ive only been practicing passively, but listening stuff for the most part), my listening comprehension has definitely gone up extremely after starting to focus on it (for a few years :-)..but like I said I didnt practice intensley). I really believe it's just a matter of time or repetition, too. It might just need some more repetition than the grammar part ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| onesteptwostep Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5773 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese, Korean | Message 8 of 43 12 March 2009 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
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With French, most of my problems are with listening, and I wholly agree with .automne when it's said that so many French words sound alike. Some words are so hard to pick out unless your listening comprehension is absolutely top notch, and it doesn't help that the French speak as fast as they do. Practice makes perfect, I suppose! Edited by onesteptwostep on 12 March 2009 at 4:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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