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MollyBloom



Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants

PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:27 pm    Post subject: best way to improve my French? Reply with quote

I can speak French, but not as nearly as well as I used to. I really want to get back into it, but want to learn using some more interesting ways. I have some dual-language books that I am going to start reading, but can anyone recommend some new and creative ways? I also have some pod casts, but I am not really into them. I was thinking maybe comic books or listening to French radio, for example. I also need to build vocab and grammar!
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan

PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

read some french books, watch some french movies or tv shows (if you can find them), and hang out with french-speaking people!

french is my mother tongue, and i know there is a few french-speaking posters on dave's, so next time we have a french meet-up you should join!!

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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.

PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:08 pm    Post subject: Re: best way to improve my French? Reply with quote

MollyBloom wrote:
I can speak French, but not as nearly as well as I used to. I really want to get back into it, but want to learn using some more interesting ways. I have some dual-language books that I am going to start reading, but can anyone recommend some new and creative ways? I also have some pod casts, but I am not really into them. I was thinking maybe comic books or listening to French radio, for example. I also need to build vocab and grammar!


I've read THE LITTLE PRINCE twice in Korean. Once as the standard book, once as a graphic novel. I really liked reading it in the graphic novel format because it was rewritten in more banmal, and I could use picture clues.

Maybe you could find a book at your level in French?

My problem with bilingual books is that my eye naturally goes to English.
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skconqueror



Joined: 31 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

move to France
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nate1983



Joined: 30 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ciccone_youth wrote:
read some french books, watch some french movies or tv shows (if you can find them), and hang out with french-speaking people!

french is my mother tongue, and i know there is a few french-speaking posters on dave's, so next time we have a french meet-up you should join!!

Smile


Tout d'abord, je te dirais qu'y faut commencer � employer le fran�ais autant que possible. J'suis d'accord avec le message dessus, y ne faut que pratiquer comme n'importe quelle langue. Trouver des potes qui parlent le fran�ais et si possible eviter de trainer avec les anglophones...j'ai trouv� �a la meilleure fa�on d'apprendre vite parce qu'on apprend le langage familier, les expressions courantes. Si �a ne marche pas, je pense aussi qu'y a bcoup d'anglophones avec une connaissance de fran�ais assez importante donc y faut que demander � des gens s'ils parlent le fran�ais; en plus y a des cor�ens qui ont �tudi� en France si tu les trouves tu seras oblig�e de dialoguer en fran�ais. Bon courage!
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

c'est exact, la meilleure fa�on c'est de converser avec des francophones! ^

on devrait organiser une autre rencontre dans les semaines qui suivent, qu'en dites-vous?
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Kwangjuchicken



Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apres avoir passe si longtemps en coree, bientot je serais encore une fois professeur de francais aux etats unis. Si l'on a besoin, comme moi, de recommencer a bien parler francais sans prendre beaucoup de temps, on peut faire ce que je suis en train de faire pendant au moins deux heures par jour. Je me parle en francais. Et, je suis fort etonne de voir que ca marche si bien. Ma connaissance de francais revient si vite. Je n'ai commence a faire ainsi qu'il y a deux mois, et je crois que mon niveau de francais et tel qu'il etait juste avant d'arriver en coree il y a pres de 10 ans.

Il y a une autre facon de pratiquer que je trouve fort interessante. Je me parle en anglais sur n'importe quel sujet, et phrase par phrase je traduis d'anglais en francais.

A vrai dire, les deux activites que je viens de te decrire j'ai souvent faites quand j'etais etudiant de francais.

Et, du fait que tu n'as pas besoin de parler a haut voix en faisant ces activites, tu peux les faire n'importe quel endoit, soit chez toi, soit en publique.

Bonne Chance
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Donkey Beer



Joined: 20 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get a French girlfriend.
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browneyedgirl



Joined: 17 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Move to France.
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MollyBloom



Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I lived in France a few years ago and while I was there I was speaking quite well. My point is I am not around Francophones now.

I don't think my boyfriend would like me dating a French girl!

But maybe when I come back to Korea I can join/start a French conversation group. Is there one now?

P.S. my French grammar is horrible Sad Tres horrible.
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yingwenlaoshi



Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My French improved one hundred fold after a couple of years in Quebec. The only problem is that I learned standard French in French immersion and it's not exactly the same as Quebecois.

After living there for three years, moving to Taiwan and Korea, I know my French is better since I've learned two other languages. Makes my second language easier.
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes there are a few french speakers on this forum, and when you arrive we should definitely meet up!

i know there is also a French group based in Seoul, search for the older thread "French meet-up", it's in there.
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Lola



Joined: 17 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laval University in Quebec City has a new online course starting this fall. You can take it from anywhere in the world. There are different levels and you take a placement test.

Here's the link:
http://www.elul.ulaval.ca/sgc/FLE/pid/9234

They have a free online sample thingy. I checked it out and it looks like fun, I think I'll register because it's really hard to keep up with French in Korea.
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Vagrantlest



Joined: 03 May 2008

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would think that watching movies en frances that youve previously seen otherwise would do alot. Watching Japanese tv shows has definety helped me alot and I havent even tried studying the language.
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Bryan



Joined: 29 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buy a book in English, French, and an unabridged French audiobook of it. Popular books like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter might be easy to find for all three. That could be your curriculum for months, if you were to learn all of the vocabulary in it. There is much more vocabulary in a chapter of a book than most language texts.
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