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| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 5963 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 1 of 66 26 December 2010 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think I will have a modest start to 2011 but by Febuary I should be into study mode.
This is my third TAC challenge. This is from language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13230&PN=14&TPN=1">20 09 and this is from 2010. French I have some very modest goals for my French this year. I will be in maintenance mode with the focus being to fill in any gaps in my knowledge. Resources Podcasts - Quick, easy and free. Endless hours of natives speaking The Splog/Fluent Cezch spiral approach (the little black book) - I was impressed by some ideas that Splog has put out there. Especially in regards to having conversations with yourself until you get to something you don't know. Recording videos/audio and keeping a little black book of notes are important parts of this method. Essentially to fill in any gaps with my French. I'm quite excited to explore this a little more Yabla/Learn French by podcast/Coffee break French - Armed with a pen and a notebook I will note and learn any important words/phrasing. On a social interactive level I think it will be a little quiet this year. I plan to use Skype to communicate with some exchange partners that I have met whilst being here in Paris. Some very tentative plans have been made to return to France mid-July. Perhaps a conversation class. Nevertheless some serious self-study this year. German possibly Spanish probably no I plan to take my baby steps in German. I would like to reach an A2 level and to sit a B1 exam and pass would be the ideal. I'm very excited about using the methods I used when I was beginning French. This is a tentative side project and if I don't feel it's worth it or i'm not enjoying it I will stop. Resources Michel Thomas foundation/advanced - Always a pleasure to use Michel. He will lay down the foundations for me. Yabla - After studing with Michel for a bit I will watch some videos with English and German subtitles Assimil - A method I've been dying to try. I must decide if I will learn from French or from English. Listening Reading - I may try to L-R some very simple stories. Pimsleur Learn in your car German - Great and affordable method Last and not least I will belong to group KEN this year. ------------------------------------------- Movies watched Je t'aime, Je t'aime (Alain Resnais) *** Partir, Revenir (Lelouch) ** Somewhere dubbed *** The Social Network dubbed * My Afternoons with Margueritte * Itineraire d'un enfant gate (Lelouch) *** Les nuits de la Pleine Lune (Rohmer) *** La Femme Infidele (Chabrol) *** Les Uns et Les Autres (Lelouch) **** Melo (Resnais) *** Germinal (Berri) *** La Femme D'a Cote (Truffaut) *** L'enfant Sauvage (Truffaut) *** Les Trois Freres ** Tchao Pantin (Berri) *** La Marquise d'O.. (Rohmer)** Brice De Nice ** La Fleur Du Mal (Chabrol) ** Maupassant Shorts 5 hours. Qui a tue Bambi ** Les Freres Soeur * - Contender for my TAC 2011 worst film...hard to beat Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Bunuel) ** Je vous salue Marie (Godard) ** Va Savoir * Peau d'Ane ** Wages of Fear *** (Clouzot) l'amour a mort ** (Resnais) Indochine * Au coeur du mensonge ** (Chabrol) Les Diaboliques (Clouzot) Passion (Godard) Boudou Saved From Drowning (Renoir) Max and the Junkmen (Sautet) Détective (Godard) Missippi Mermaid (Truffaut) Cyrano de Bergerac The Machinist Les rendez-vous de Paris (Rohmer) L'histoire d'Adèle H. (Truffaut) Nathalie Gabrielle L'as des as Une hirondelle a fait le printemps My wife is an actress The Taste of Others To be and to have Le Petit Poucet Les comperes Un 32 août sur terre A Nous Deux (Lelouch) La Reine Margot Une Employee modele Chambre à part Le juge et l'assassin (Tavernier) L'aventure c'est l'aventure (Lelouch) Mon Oncle Les Herbes Folles (Resnais) Bon Voyage Le Doulos (Melville) Coeurs (Resnais) Medee Lacombe Lucien (Malle) German Wrong Move (Wim Wenders) Books Read Une Poignee de gens (Anne Wiazemsky) Hymnes a l'amour (Anne Wiazemsky) Backpacker Australia Generation Baroudeur Cinq Semaines en Ballon (Jules Verne) La Psychologie du Bonheur (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) La Peste (Albert Camus) Edited by Adrean on 04 January 2012 at 11:25am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6152 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 2 of 66 28 December 2010 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey Adrean! You're making me a bit jealous, it sounds so wonderful to pick up German as a new languge. :D
It will be exciting to follow your log this year. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5351 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 4 of 66 28 December 2010 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | ||
I think using French to learn a new language like German will be excellent for review. Here's a little more on what Khatzumoto calls "language laddering", just in case you might have missed it. I've got Assimil's course on Egyptian hieroglyphics waiting patiently in the ranks (I know it may sound a bit of a strange choice, but it's just so exotic and looks so cool!). However, with the instructions all being in French, I guess Ptolemy and Cheops will have to wait just a bit longer (lol). In the meantime, I've a couple of Spanish and Russian books with instructions in German to keep me laddering away... ;) Best of luck with the exam results, and I'm looking forward to your new adventures in German (and maybe Spanish too)! Edited by Teango on 28 December 2010 at 4:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 5963 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 5 of 66 02 January 2011 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the comments team!
I forgot to mention two very important things I'm gonna be concentrating on this year. The first is my French accent. I have realized that this is something not to be neglected. The French are quite anal about accents. Thankfully I don't have a terribly strong anglophone accent, however it's bad enough that it gets a chuckle now and again. Hey all youse learning French don't forget to work on your accent if you don't want to stand out too much. How will I improve my accent? I'm gonna collect and read a number of ideas from a variety of sources. There are books on phonology, videos on you tube, techniques like chorusing/shadowing etc.etc. I'll take a look around and pick the method that works for me. I've already drawn some very quick solutions, first of all I've seen some coaching videos from an American accent coach. She is fantastic at producing the sounds but no matter how good she is there is no disguising an accent. What does this mean? It's gonna be very hard albeit impossible to completely remove my own accent. The other thing I forgot to mention which is a big FOCUS is activating my vocabulary. Essentially I'm gonna do a bit of reading and research to find out how best to go about this. I have a small idea from watching videos on youtube and general reading. I want to pick all the wonderful passive knowledge from my brain. In an effort to evaluate my accent and to activate some vocab I decided to make a video every now and again on the subject of language resources. I put up this video on the subject of podcasts. it's aimed at all those people who are unfamiliar with using podcasts as a study tool. Personally at the moment it's my most valuable resource by far. Ciao 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 5963 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 6 of 66 06 January 2011 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just to let you know I've got my little black book (it's actually a little yellow
notepad) which I'm going to use to fill all the little holes and gaping canyons in my French. I'm going to let my wander in the French language until it finds something it cannot say. Also I will use the little book to note common combinations of words, words, or phrases which I understand passively but have not entered into my active vocabulary by watching the medias. I'm very excited to start this project and I think it will be just a little before it's fine tuned. This year is all about activating vocabulary. I decided now to make a video now and again on one of my favourite subjects which is 'language resources for the French language' in the hope of activating some vocab. I hope I can introduce some French learners to some resources which they don't know exist. I made a video about a wonderful resource in French on youtube which is called Fluent French Audio, I also made a video in English if you have trouble understanding my poor French. Edited by Adrean on 06 January 2011 at 1:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5642 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 66 06 January 2011 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bonne chance pour tes études du français et d'allemand pour cette année!
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 06 January 2011 at 4:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Violette Newbie United States Joined 4866 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 66 06 January 2011 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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La vidéo est très bon, Adrean! :)
Je ne essaie jamais les podcasts. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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