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| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4282 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 9 of 11 09 May 2013 at 7:12am | IP Logged | ||
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2. This website (click me) provides rankings on forum as well as a very short description (but do not stop at this, the forums in questions usually cover a wider range of topics than mentioned in that description). You can filter by language and sort by number of posts to find the most active ones. Be aware that this is a ranking by quantity and not quality. Don't stop at this list though, it seems very incomplete to me. For instance, "http://voyageforum.com/" a fairly large forum on travelling or Elbakin.net a small but active forum on fantasy are not on that list.
As stated above, correct grammar and orthography will be an issue. I think you can easily avoid forums where writing is as bad as described by Michel but even on forums that have higher standards, like Htlal, there will still be mistakes and they won't always be pointed out. So keep that in mind when using them. Blogs might be an alternative but quality blogs might be even harder to find than quality forums. 3. If you can't find an exchange partner, may be you should look for alternatives. For instance, you could try to provide some tutoring in Czech in order to earn money or points to pay for French conversation. That might be easier than having to find someone who is native in French AND is learning Czech. You could also try to find native and fluent speakers where you live through expat' associations and such. You could also try to meet and if you can, host, travellers. The forum I linked to above might be a good place to look since obviously, it is nearly only frequented by native French speaker with an interest in travelling. As for getting review on audio, I know you can do this on Livemocha but I do not know how well it works since I only tried once. Good luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4820 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 10 of 11 09 May 2013 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | ||
I have already done that and it didn't work as well as I had hoped. That is the whole point. I am great at reading about most topics and in only occassional need of dictionary. I am more than very good at listening as I only have major troubles only with some dialects, like canadian, and with people difficult to understand (speech impediments, old people, small children, when someone cries while speaking in the movie etc). The trouble are my own stupid mistakes which put my active skills several levels down. I speak fluently and make myself understood without slowing down or bothering the c onversation partner but I don'tuse the language proficiently. I can write but with stupid mistakes and very slowly. Thats why I want to combine both approaches from now on. Tsopivo, thanks a lot, I'm sure my dreamforum hides on the list. I am already teaching French one person but there are two troubles. First is my time, I am medicine student so there is not that much of it left for work, and the difficulty to find students. Most people learning French go to language schools and the rest has a choice between so many people with better papers than I have got (university degrees in French, Dalf, x years spent in France). The offer is higher than demand in my opinion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4820 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 11 of 11 09 May 2013 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Voyageforum and elbakin look awesome, thanks!!!
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