Hope all you fine folks are doing well with your studies this week. Share your experience so we can all celebrate or commiserate with you!
Hope all you fine folks are doing well with your studies this week. Share your experience so we can all celebrate or commiserate with you!
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not going wellgoing fantasticJk I think I’m being a bit too tough on myself… but French is kicking my ass as usual. Thankfully the Anki vocabulary training is getting easier now that I’m pass the complete beginner stage, since everything is looking more and more anglaise
Tried picking up the online course again yesterday, and got bodied with all the verb conjugation questions (at A1 level 😂)! But I think I might have to do more proper coursework at this point to improve my grammar. Also more reading and listening, I should probably go watch some old Tintin cartoons… and hopefully in a month or two I can go back to the French language speaking meetup again and properly speak this time around
On related topic, my employer does offer a 2-3 weeks intensive course thing, where they’d teach French the entire work-week. I’ll try to ask my professeur (in French all teachers are called professors actually… which I found rather interesting) about this later, but if anyone has experience with such intensive courses I’m all ears
I’ve never done intensive but it sounds doable for a few months at a time. Obviously it depends on your specific program, but expect like 50+ words per day vocabulary and an intense grammar program with it.
It’s pretty much the fastest you can possibly learn, which makes it a lot of work and quite difficult.
You learn so quickly that it will also go away quickly. So be sure to practice after the course if you want to “retain” it.
Gotcha. So I work at a French-speaking university (yes I have my regrets of taking this job) where just about everything & anything is done in French… Which would explain why they would offer a course like that, since some international students might need some help, & I assume retaining the info won’t be hard if you’re forced to do everything in French afterwards
Thanks for the info btw. I’ll contact my professeur and see if that’s actually an option
Intensive is like 4 hours of lecture per day btw. (And a fair bit of review/study after that, daily). Obviously there is good opportunity here, but be sure you have enough time for it before committing.
Or otherwise, be sure to ask for how many hours/day or hours/week would be expected of you.