I feel like I do not have a same level in speaking than listening. Indeed I have this sensation that my abilities on speaking are growing faster that those of listenning.
I looking for some experiences guys. And which advices could you give me?
So, I going to present you our french idiom expressions which are closer than ours.
Kill two bird with one stone : faire d'une pierre deux coups. => make two shots with one stone.
Ball is in your court : la balle est dans ton camp. Don't need to explain. Quite sames words
Can't judge a book by its cover : ne pas juger un livre à sa couverture/ l'habit ne fait pas le moine.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket : ne pas mettre ses œufs dans le même panier.
Give the benefit of the doubt : lui donner le bénéfice du doute.
It's really interesting find all these idioms... if you have another one please feel free to share
The duration of session must be 20/30 minutes.
Please you have to be really motivated and sure that you want to work for a long period.
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Let's take some examples :
- the verb : "manger" infinitive form.
Je mange
Tu manges
Ils mangent
These three forms of present tense are pronounced exactly the same.
- the verb : "courir" infinitive form.
Il court
Ils courent
Those two form are pronounced the same as well.
You can obseve "courent" you have ..ent.
You have bunch of example..
See french easy.. [emoji]
In this process I figured out some method are more useful than others. This is just my opinion :
1-) Songs on yutube with lyrics are really efficient. That really helps to break the gate about do I feel stupid when I speak french ;
2-) Try to learn syllable sound by heart because in french opposite to english, you pronounce word like you see. Most of time it's the same sound in another word.
The rest coming soon
Today I have to sum up and make conclusions.
Which improvements?
The only improvement I can noticed, I am not afraid anymore to speak in public. Even though I make some grammar mistake or errors. I can watch tv shows and stuff in english. But after two years I feel like I can make better.
But today I feel like I can not move forward anymore. Does anyone feel same thing?
how to ask someone to repeat a sentence in French.
One of scary thing when you are learning a new language it is ask to someone to repeat sentence because you did not catch the meaning first time.
- "Je vous remercie pour votre aide, mais je n'ai pas compris l'intégralité de votre réponse " when you ask about information for example;
- " Pourriez-vous répéter s'il-vous-plaît plus lentement car je débute dans l'apprentissage de la langue française" if you do not catch second time.
- how are you ?
- what's up ?
- what's new with you ?
In french we do have expressions to introduce a conversation which are close than yours.
- more common : "Comment vas-tu ?" Or "Comment est-ce-que tu vas ?". These expressions become when you don't closely know your interlocutor "Comment allez-vous ?"
- what's up ? : Quoi de neuf ? We tend to add the word "alors". That's mean "so". "Alors.. quoi de neuf.
The rest for next chapter.
