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 Message 57 of 80
12 September 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged 
In case anybody who reads this wondered, I've continued doing one Assimil lesson per day, lesson 19 today. I quit logging them every day, though, because I figured that could make this journal a bit monotonous. Anyway...

Comment dit-on "avoir soif de progrès" en Anglais?

"To thirst for progress?"

I just picked up "soif" today from Assimil (odd, because "faim" was probably one of the first couple hundred words I learned, many months ago!) and realized I had heard it before in the phrase above on the radio. In addition to practicing my comprehension, listening to France Inter has let me find a lot of songs that I enjoy.

Et ma fiancée, elle aime ces chansons aussi. :-)

Edited by tastyonions on 12 September 2012 at 6:34pm

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 Message 58 of 80
15 September 2012 at 4:28pm | IP Logged 
So far I've gone three weeks in a row of doing one Assimil lesson every day (number 22 today). :-)

I found today's to be markedly more difficult than other recent lessons. I'll definitely have to listen to it more times than usual.

Edited by tastyonions on 15 September 2012 at 4:29pm

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 Message 59 of 80
16 September 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged 
Surprisingly, today's lesson was really easy. No words or grammar that were new to me at all.
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 Message 60 of 80
21 September 2012 at 1:38am | IP Logged 
Been missing out on Assimil the past few days due to school busy-ness. Still sneaking in some French by way of recordings in my car, though. :-)
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 Message 61 of 80
25 November 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged 
Waouh, ça fait longtemps depuis j'ai écris !

I'm on lesson 58 of Assimil now, and the other day I started writing a bit at Lang-8. School is winding down for the semester, so I have some more time to devote to French.
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 Message 62 of 80
02 December 2012 at 1:57pm | IP Logged 
Lesson 64 today. The lessons are getting noticeably faster and I'm picking up some useful grammar. In today's lesson, for example:

"Je vous ai téléphoné il y a deux jours."

I don't think any of the other lessons had used the passé composé + "il y a [duration]." Seems like a very useful construction, though! This lesson also listed some of the many types of "carte":

une carte routière : road map
une carte postale   : post card
une carte de crédit : credit card
une carte de visite : business card

And the lesson went over the savoir / connaître distinction, which seems like it will be hard to master. Sort of seems like it tracks the saber / conocer distinction in Spanish, which I remember from high school, but I'm not going to lean on that too much.
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 Message 63 of 80
14 December 2012 at 7:38pm | IP Logged 
Lesson 66 today (wow, finals really got in the way of Assimil!). I watched a bunch of French movies this past weekend, several that I had already seen, and seem to be noticing more and more things I learn from Assimil showing up in dialogues.

Also joined the "Second Romance Team" for the TAC 2013. I've never tried the Total Annihilation Challenge before. I think that reading others' logs and getting some comments from them will give me a little extra motivation. :-)

Edited by tastyonions on 14 December 2012 at 7:40pm

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 Message 64 of 80
14 December 2012 at 7:45pm | IP Logged 
Also, I watched and really enjoyed the series Engrenages recently (subtitled, on Netflix). I've always liked using Netflix to find French movies; I think French may actually have the greatest number of titles on there among non-English languages.


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