Dane learning French (and English)

[fromaalborg]

Finished Les Deux Tours, dual-audio. Started Le Retour du Roi.

On y va.

[fromaalborg]

On DaveAgain's recommendation, I have watched Blake et Mortimer (1997). I used English subtitles. It's drawn with a more serious pen than Tintin, yet sillier stories. It was entertaining enough though all the way through, and very good for learning French as a beginner. So, I pass the recommendation on.

[fromaalborg]

Finished Le Retour du Roi. Started Le Hobbit (dual audio)
Staying in the same universe, I'm also almost finished watching the dubbed extended film-trilogy. I think it was a good choice to cut out Tom Bombadil.

I'm slowly beginning to be able to think in French.

[fromaalborg]

In a week, I will have spent a year learning French, 1+ hour a day. I'm quite happy with that. I still have not reached my originally stated goal of being able to understand a "current news radio shows", although I'm getting closer.

I will spend the week closing down the educational resources I'm using, so that I'm only left with easy, flexible and enjoyable content: French music, film/TV, Instagram-videos, vocab-apps and radio. This should be enough for securing progress until I'm fluent.

The only exception is the French Babbel course, because it is a paid 1-year subscription. I want to get my money's worth

[fromaalborg]

Mini-update

Nød lærer nøgen kvinde at spinde as we say in Danish, so because Memrise will shut down the courses I use, I have finally turned to Anki. The trick was to make my own deck. It does take a couple of clicks to make a card with audio, but over time, it will be a good solution, I think.

[MorkTheFiddle]

Good luck with ANKI. Always remember that you control ANKI, not the other way around.

[fromaalborg]

Good luck with ANKI. Always remember that you control ANKI, not the other way around.

Thank you for your concern. I did see the youtuber Matt vs Japan had to quit cold turkey, being addicted to it, which seems odd to me.

But since I hate getting "the answer" wrong, and only make a few cards a day, no need to worry

To keep it simple, I just hit either "Hard(2)" or "Good(3)". Some use only "Again" and "Good". Not sure what is best for me yet.

[fromaalborg]

Updates:

- Started putting sentences on the front card in Anki, marking the target word with bold.
- Only listened to normal French podcasts about topics that interests me. No educational material. No dual audiobooks.
- Watched two Tintin episodes without subtitles. I have to switch mentally from following the story using language, to following the story using the pictures. Then I can do it. This is a big revelation for me. Don't remember anyone pointing this out directly.


Moving towards All French All The Time

[fromaalborg]

The site keeps logging me out and demanding I sign in twice, which is annoying.
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Anki-news: I realised that at my current level, I should only add “big words” to Anki: verbs, nouns and adjectives.

Clozemaster-news: Since I got to the 500 Most Common words, I have only been doing the 10 Listening-exercises per day. Now, I’m good enough to also do the 20 Vocabulary-exercises per day (I want it to be easy).
So, that is nice.

[Le Baron]

Anki-news: I realised that at my current level, I should only add “big words” to Anki: verbs, nouns and adjectives.

I've read this a few times now and I don't know what it means! Which are the 'big words'?