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| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3701 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: French | Message 1 of 5 01 June 2015 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would like to work on my speaking skills, and while I can figure out what most things are in French by now, I don't get to practice it very much, and so my recall is still quite slow when trying to speak, I have started with a sentence or two at a time and just saying them aloud. I can tell when my accent is not right, or the pronunciation, but I may think I am right sometime, and not be. Wheres a good place for just practicing pronunciation if you don't have someone you can speak with? I'd also like to do this with Italian as well. What I'm asking is I guess for some way of practicing speech while I am alone, and improving recall speed and over all pronunciation, of which I am decent, but not perfect since I didn't learn French for this in the beginning.
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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5163 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 2 of 5 01 June 2015 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Depending on your level it sounds like Pimsleur and/or FSI would be perfect solutions for you.
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| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 3795 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 5 01 June 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am also learning French. I think Pimsleur is exactly what you need. I started with Pimsleur I and am just a
few lessons shy of completing Pimsleur IV. I started using Pimsleur to help me with my pronunciation, but I have also found it has really assisted in automaticity and fluidity. I haven't learned a lot of vocabulary though as I did other material first. Many of us on the board have commented on the benefits of Pimsleur, particularly in the later courses. Pimsleur can be quite expensive so Inrecommend you seeing if your local library has it available or can get it for you through an Inter-Library Loan. Otherwise if you choose to buy it, Audible seems to have the best prices I have not personally done French FSI, but I understand it to be quite helpful (and free), although somewhat dated. There is also a basic phonology course you can do with/independent of the main FSI course. Lastly, I have found native speakers to be instrumental in my development, as well as quite fun. I found my penpals through mylanguageexchange.com. Two of my penpal I have been with 18 months now and can't imagine this journey without them. It is very intimidating at first, but there is nothing like immediate feedback from a native! Best of Luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4495 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 5 02 June 2015 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||
You always have someone you can speak with, online. www.italki.com and www.verbling.com will help you immensely. If you want to check pronunciation there's Forvo. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5516 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 5 of 5 05 June 2015 at 10:12am | IP Logged | ||
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You can always try self-talk. Speaking with a native can be intimidating so before you have a live conversation, you can just rehearse it on your own. Give yourself a topic and try to speak off the cuff about it for as long as you can so that you train your brain to think quicker. Sometimes you have to make yourself "activate" your skills. Don't worry whether your accent is perfect or whether you nail the pronunciation (you can check those later) just talk, talk, talk.
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