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French Club
I started studying with Fluenz French 10 months ago and have just begun level 4. I use other resources but I consider Fluenz to be my "personal tutor" while everything else is practice and review. I work at an NGO and I started basically on a dare that I wouldn't be able to understand my new francophone colleagues, but I quickly fell for the language and dream of reading and comprehending the language at a fluent level in a few years.
With that in mind, I teamed up with a friend and started a French Club at my office. I have the least amount of study time under my belt in the group, but am happy to report that I not only keep up but at times display more fluency than others who have studied for years or even lived in francophone countries. This is just more evidence that this program really works! I do an average of 5 hours a week (including watching videos and quizzes).
But this message about encouraging others and to hear about other folks who are in language clubs. What material do you use? How frequently do you meet? Do you find time to practice speaking to each other? Is it really helping?
We use the French in Action series because its free to the public and offers dialog in French, so we can break the ice with role playing.
http://www.learner.org/resources/seri... We meet once a week and have agreed to focus on conversation. And it's really helping me to get past my new language shyness.
Other resources:
I've seen this one mentioned in a few places in the commons and on the FB page. Great for checking your grammar.
http://french.about.com/
This one is my favorite new discovery. Carnegie Mellon Open course ware complete with videos and many comprehension exercises. Great for practice, but it doesn't take the place of my "personal tutoring."
https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Happy learning!
With that in mind, I teamed up with a friend and started a French Club at my office. I have the least amount of study time under my belt in the group, but am happy to report that I not only keep up but at times display more fluency than others who have studied for years or even lived in francophone countries. This is just more evidence that this program really works! I do an average of 5 hours a week (including watching videos and quizzes).
But this message about encouraging others and to hear about other folks who are in language clubs. What material do you use? How frequently do you meet? Do you find time to practice speaking to each other? Is it really helping?
We use the French in Action series because its free to the public and offers dialog in French, so we can break the ice with role playing.
http://www.learner.org/resources/seri... We meet once a week and have agreed to focus on conversation. And it's really helping me to get past my new language shyness.
Other resources:
I've seen this one mentioned in a few places in the commons and on the FB page. Great for checking your grammar.
http://french.about.com/
This one is my favorite new discovery. Carnegie Mellon Open course ware complete with videos and many comprehension exercises. Great for practice, but it doesn't take the place of my "personal tutoring."
https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Happy learning!