So Day 1..
Why I need french?
Although they say french is the most romantic language in the world the main reason that I am alteast trying to learn french is because I got admission in a french university. Although I can do my research and classes in English to have a better social life I understand having french knowledge is crucial.
So here we are!! ð
These lessons will be a combination of read with some self work. I will list down the things that I completed. Feel free to follow those steps or make your own way ðŠ
Either way we are going to learn french.
So I know a little bit ( few words ðĪŠ) in french so my strategy is to learn something in a more creative manner..ofcouse we need some traditional methods to assist us but we will see along the future ( if it is not working out we can change our strategy as well)
The Duolingo App will be handy I am adding link to it here ð feel free to check it out too.
Okay let us revisit how we learned our native language when we were a baby
- Our parents or people surrounded us actively talked to us in our language even though we did not understand it. Unfortunately I don’t have such an environment around me right now but I can create it for few hours by listening to podcast. Hence comes the question which podcast?
- The other methods was we tried to communicate in french so I will try to write small sentences in french moving forward and will add its correct way by google translator as well. Then we can understand what all are the mistakes that we are making
- Songs!!!! Yeah Let us find a song and try to by heart it. Whether you understand it or not. We should be able to sing along with lyrics
I found a website quite interesting.. ð I know it will be intimidating at the moment and we might not understand anything but moving forward we will. So let us listen to one of the stories and understand the words we learn from it
Okay this is enough for planning Let us do some actions then
The book that I am reading today is Les trois petit cochons section 1 and I will add the interesting things I learned while reading the book below:
- It etait une fois : Once upon a time
- Had : avait
- cochons : Pigs
- Mais : But
- Il n’y avait pas : There was not
- Puissent : Could
- Tous : all
- Leur : Their
- Faim : Hunger
- Envoye : sent
- Vaste monde: wide world
Conclusions : French is really hard ð ð. The interesting fact is the past tense forms ar very different from the present tenses and most of the time we need the past tense right? So this is a good exercise. And also it is important that tomorrow we have to revise this before going to the second one
And to the final step - Song
A friend of mine suggested a song “Comme on attend le printemps” by Jerome. Let us give it a try
Well too much for one day. I will recapitulate everything and see you all tomorrow.. Happy learning
A demain ...bisou bisou