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| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5016 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 1 of 15 14 January 2011 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just starting out learning French and have tried to apply all sort of study techniques and working with a couple of
"begin to learn french"-books. The only thing I fall back to is to continue to read the book I have started and break down part of sentences using the Internet. So it has taken me two weeks but I now have read the first page of the book "L'empire des loups" by Jean- Christophe Grangé. I have the book as french audio, french text and a swedish copy of the book and what I do sentence by sentence is : 1. Write the sentence in french (copy), and swedish (copy) 2. Lookup word by word and find the base form of the words, I skip the small words 3. Listen to the audio several times 4. Repeat the audio with my text and notes in front of me So now I know some of the sentences by heart, I know some basic grammar I looked up to see how some words where handled. I might have learned about 100-150 words which I know quite well now even though I am not that good with the pronunciation yet. But still when hearing the word I see the context from the sentences I know as well as I know most of the spelling. I have tried the following : SRS (using Anki) = I use it a bit but it gets to boring in the long run Just listening = As I can't understand much at all yet I just get tired as I still try to understand what I hear Beginner books = I have tried some "Teach yourself" books etc but as reading texts on how to say Hello, Goodbye etc has no interesting context except just learning the phrases I gave up Grammatical books = Tried to do some beginning grammar but also really boring So in short I will continue by slowmotion bookreading as it is the only way I so far have kept my interest to continue. Learning should be fun so why not :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5555 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 15 14 January 2011 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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What do you mean by 'skip the small words'? They might be important!
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| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5138 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 3 of 15 14 January 2011 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi juman,
That is really quite a challenge to already read a French novel when you are starting out to learn French! Please do keep us updated with your progress, and good luck to your French studies! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5016 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 4 of 15 14 January 2011 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Not at the moment. As long as I understand the context and the bigger words it doesn't matter if I know words as : se, l', de, á, au, sa, las, son ... I don't need to know them right now and will learn them in the long run. And when I feel like it I look it up as most of them are grammarrelated like le and la etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5016 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 5 of 15 14 January 2011 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, I know and that is why I tried all the other ways to do this and yes I'll update with the progress now and then... :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5016 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 7 of 15 15 January 2011 at 10:52am | IP Logged | ||
Thank you! That was some great ideas. If I get them in the same three version as I see to this I will look into them (fre audio, fre text and swe text). It would probably be a better a idea to start with simpler books that still be interesting but I had no idea when I started out. My idea was also to get a french writer as I think they will provide more genuine language then some other writer translated to french. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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