Just don't do "All Chinese All The Time" while you're doing "All Russian All The Time". There will be blood everywhere.

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Reading the latest entry on the above linked blog kind of surprised me. I found french easy, all of it. Maybe it's because I was exposed to it & its pronunciation since kindergarten. However, like the blog owner, I had zero interest in it so I did just enough in classes to get the grade and never applied it on my own. Thus I can no longer produce French satisfactorily (active vocab & grammar-wise), but I can still understand a good deal of it when reading. At some point I'd like to refresh but I think I have enough on my plate with Japanese & Chinese & Korean.

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2009 February 04, 8:19 pm)

http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

I've been using this site for Japanese, but they have channels from all over.

Don't forget there are also many anime shows dubbed in french

I was "immersed" in them when I was a kid (that was probably my main source of exposure along with speaking of course) and I wouldn't say it hurt my french

With the older series like city hunter, Ken the survivor (?) etc you might have some luck.


Otherwise, on the site (http://wwitv.com/portal.htm) that someone mentionned, you can find tv5monde, france 2, france 3, tf1 witch are well known

Last edited by gilozoaire (2009 February 05, 2:29 am)

yukkuri_kame wrote:

http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

I've been using this site for Japanese, but they have channels from all over.

Thank you for posting that link.  This looks like an amazing resource for AWATT (All Whatever . . .).

I read just a few of the French Revolution blog entries.  From the little I read it sounded as though he was trying to intuit pronunciation based on learning spelling rules; maybe relying on audio input would have been more effective.

For reading French, I've used the following two books in short term courses:
http://www.amazon.com/French-Reading-Ka … 0133316033
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-French-Ar … pd_sim_b_8

[Edit: This one seems like the same sort of thing only much cheaper: http://www.amazon.com/French-Reading-Kn … roduct_top ]

They're designed to take you from zero to being able to read almost anything with a dictionary in a few weeks.  If you could get a cheap used copy or one from a library, I think one or the other would be worth using for that purpose.  They won't help at all with speaking or listening . . . alas.  Maybe when I feel "done" with Japanese I can learn to speak French.

Last edited by KristinHolly (2009 February 05, 5:22 am)

Calling up necromancy...

I'd thought I'd share a resource I'm falling in love with: tex's french grammar.  Anyone who's read GFM's french revolution blog entries should be familiar with it.  But GFM really didn't really do it justice--it's just like Tae Kim or better.  I'm in the process of sentence mining it, and putting together a google spreadsheet and audio pack.

I watched the whole 1st season of South Park in French. They are very easy to find and quite entertaining. Also you learn very useful sentences right from the beginning, for instance: "shoote dans le bebe", i.e. "kick the baby"

Last edited by mentat_kgs (2009 July 31, 12:31 pm)

http://www.litteratureaudio.com/
I thought I got the link from this thread, but I don't see it now, so yeah =P


On music, I came across this page with someone's extensive list of recommendations, which has been quite interesting so far.
http://melbelin.com/FrenchSongs.html
(The rest of the site might be useful too, though I've not yet looked at it closely.)

I'd like to find some songs with catchy tunes, and lyrics that fit the tune naturally without being squished too much.

I'd also be interested to find out about the songs ordinary people sing, or what they used to sing in years gone by. (Perhaps these would also tend to fit the above description.) I have seen crowds singing at a protest in Paris, though I didn't know enough French at the time to remember what ;)

If you didn't realise, you just bumped a nearly 4 year old thread. Nevertheless, I guess it'll help people who are looking for French resources.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q … ranglaises