Road to B2 in French (3 month) with Iversen lists + Buffy against PeterM . SKYNET 2

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Re: Road to B2 in French (3 month) with Iversen lists + Buffy against PeterM . SKYNET 2

Postby frenchfish55 » Sun Nov 27, 2022 7:27 am

Hello
Things are getting little bit slower than expected.
I don't train production sckills
Now only reading +listening
Because of my job ,i am focusing more on my IT skills instead of langauges.
Looks like I overestimate spee of learning new languages.

I didn't watch Buffy yet.
Iveren lists I also didn't use yet.

What I've tried
Reading books (Petite Prince, Petite Nicolas,Etranger by Albert Camus (currently reading,it's more difficult than previous books and it is less enjoyable)) (1 hour per day average))
I read also Sans Famille by Hector Malot (quite good book)
Read native news every day at least 5 articles

Listening
Petite Nicolas audiobook (1 chaper 10 minutes er day)
Innerrfrench podcast (1-2 episodes 30 minutes each one) (during my home duties and road to work)
Youtube French Mornings with Elisa (10 minutes per day)
RFI france facile poddcast (10 minutes duration of episode) 1 per day)

Grammar 10 minutes per da (re reading grammar book without excercises)

Totally I had 2-3 hours of reading and 1 hour of listening per day


Results after 6 month of intensive studying francaise (from May to 27/ November).

I impoved my reading abilities. I can easily understand Petite Nicolas and news(I still have a lot of unknown words in news so this task is in progress)
Listenig skills also imporved. I can undestand first 30 episodes of innerfrench relatively easily.
Listening of audiobooks is still difficult.

It is not my first attempt of learning French. I started learning it 01/05/2021. I studied it for about 3 month in intensive regime (reading only my russian course book)So I didn't have listening and production skills) Later I had problems with my job, s I tried not to forget it by re reading my course book(for about 10 minutes per day activity until 05. 2022

My plan on next 1 one month. Keep going with this passive skill improvement.
What I want to add but haven't done yet (learning words by iversen's method or ANKI)
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Re: Road to B2 in French (3 month) with Iversen lists + Buffy against PeterM . SKYNET 2

Postby frenchfish55 » Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:39 pm

Random Update
Language learning is my second priority ( I need to pass my exam for certification in IT, it is harder than I expected firstly,so I wanted to pass my exam in programming for 3 month and now it takes almost 1 year)
I am not preparing to b2 in french, just learning it in passive mode
My current activities

Morning
innerfrench podcast 30 minutes per day
Commute to work Arsene Lupin de Maurice Leblanc 2 hours per day
News in french 5-8 articles per day
Weekends Sans Famille d'Hector Malot 3 hours per day (reading)
Every day few short 5-10 minutes videos on yotube with audio subtitles in french (usually news LCI)
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Re: Road to B2 in French (3 month) with Iversen lists + Buffy against PeterM . SKYNET 2

Postby frenchfish55 » Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:02 am

Update.
I started to learn french intensively in may 2022. (There was an atttemp in 2021 (may-september)So i spend 3 month learning french in 2021 and I stoped learning it until may 2022 (Septetember 2021-may 202) I only read one page per day in francaise average.
Stage 2(intensive) may 2022-november 2023 11.11 (18 month)
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Results now I can read french(non fiction) books,articles easily. and listen podcasts for B2. I can undestand news for natives(maybe 90% of it) I didn't practice writing and speaking. 2nd problem I can't differentiate ,separate english words from french so they're all together in my head 3rd. I don't rememer french genders of words and my grammar need to be improved(i need practise)
Anyway learning french is pleasant journey to me.(there are a lot of interesting french fiction books)
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Fiction books is quite hard because of large amount of rare words which I don't have
My daily routine
I spend 2 hours on my commute to work reading french fiction books ( Alphonse Daudet(nouvelles); Prosper Mérimée(nouvelles), Maurice Leblanc(Arsen Lupine),Hector Malot(Sans Famile) Guy de Maupassant(Boule de suif),"L'Etranger" - Albert Camus. and others
1-hours per day (actualites) many diffrent resources Le monde, jdd,nouvelobs etc. or read non-fiction book(psychologie,science sociale). I even read Leon Trotsky https://www.marxists.org/
50 minutes per podcast (InnerFrench, Le journale en France Facile (RFI), Le français avec Fluidité. Français Authentique) At the beginning I I listened only INNERFrench *may-december 2022) and later I 've added others
30 minutes per day(random youtube video in francaise (actuailities like LCI, it's just what youtube always show me in recommendations.
(sometimes I watch youtube youtube videos with subs sometimes without it). From time to time I've watched Buffy tuese de vampires (I finished 1st season )
Weekends(grammar book, I only read them and didn't bother myself wth excercises, read fiction books in francaise) 4 hours per day
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