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[MollyBloom]

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!

[ciccone_youth]

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!!

[Atavistic]

[skconqueror]

move to France

[nate1983]

[ciccone_youth]

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?

[Kwangjuchicken]

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
Poulet

[Donkey Beer]

Get a French girlfriend.

[browneyedgirl]

Move to France.

[MollyBloom]

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 Tres horrible.

[yingwenlaoshi]

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.

[ciccone_youth]

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.

[Lola]

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.

[Vagrantlest]

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.

[Bryan]

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.