Lianne's 365 Days of French
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:20 pm
New year, new log! My last update on my old log was 2 years ago, so I figured it was time for a fresh start.
Introduction! My name's Lianne. I'm a half-French, half-mix-of-English-Scottish-Swedish-German-etc., Canadian, whose native language is English. Half my family speaks French, but I was raised fully anglo anyway. Sometimes I get really grumpy about that. I'm 30 years old, autistic, and a library technician in an elementary school. I have in the past struggled with language wanderlust quite a bit, but for quite a few years now I've been firmly focused on French. Despite this, I cannot carry on a conversation in French.
I just signed up for the 365 Day Language Challenge, starting tomorrow! This was perhaps an outrageous thing to do, as my French studies have basically lapsed over the last year. But I really want to get back into my studies and start making progress again, so I decided to jump right back in.
Updates since my last log:
- In 2016-2017 I took two intermediate French courses that were taught in French and were SUPER HARD and I think I learned a lot in them! I wish I could have taken more of them. I've probably lost much of what I gained, but on the bright side I still have the course materials!
- I finished the French Duolingo skill tree at some point. 2016 maybe? Anyway there's still lots of reviewing I can benefit from there.
- In May I signed up for the 2018-2019 Language Super Challenge, but haven't participated at all. I just never got going, the bot wasn't working right, I was locked out of the forum (I just got my password reset today! Yay!)... Basically it's been a lazy year for language learning. All I've really done in 2018 is a bit of Duolingo. But I've decided to start tracking for the Super Challenge anyway. I never complete it even with the full 20 months, so there's no way I will in 12, but I'll still track what I do.
- At the end of 2017, I did a job interview in French!! Well, they spoke French. I mostly responded in English. It was for a job in a French immersion school, that my French was nowhere near good enough for, but which they were having trouble filling so I was encouraged to apply anyway. I did not get the job, on account of my low French level. However, the interview did lead to me getting a job in an English school in February, which is my honest-to-goodness dream job!! This is not really related to my language learning, but makes me really happy, so I'm sharing it anyway.
So, 2019! The 365 Day Challenge requires me to study French for at least half an hour every day. I'm going to start off with Duolingo reviews, and maybe pulling out my course materials from all my French classes to go over. I know there's a lot of grammar that I need to work on. I've also got loads of reading materials readily available, as well as movies/shows I can watch. We'll see where the year takes me! Hopefully to a conversational level in French!
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Editing to add this list of old logs I managed to track down at HTLAL (and one from here):
Lianne's Holiday Season with Toki Pona (2010)
Lianne’s TAC 2011 Fun Times - Team Ŭ (2011)
Lianne’s TAC 2012 - The Romantics (2012)
Lianne's 2013 Log - Esperanto (2013 - one whole post lol)
Lianne's 2014 Return to French (2014)
Lianne's Log, Mostly French (2016)
Wow, that was a sad look at my inconsistency over the years! That also might not be all my logs; I can't log in to HTLAL anymore so I'm dependent on Google searching for my old logs.
Introduction! My name's Lianne. I'm a half-French, half-mix-of-English-Scottish-Swedish-German-etc., Canadian, whose native language is English. Half my family speaks French, but I was raised fully anglo anyway. Sometimes I get really grumpy about that. I'm 30 years old, autistic, and a library technician in an elementary school. I have in the past struggled with language wanderlust quite a bit, but for quite a few years now I've been firmly focused on French. Despite this, I cannot carry on a conversation in French.
I just signed up for the 365 Day Language Challenge, starting tomorrow! This was perhaps an outrageous thing to do, as my French studies have basically lapsed over the last year. But I really want to get back into my studies and start making progress again, so I decided to jump right back in.
Updates since my last log:
- In 2016-2017 I took two intermediate French courses that were taught in French and were SUPER HARD and I think I learned a lot in them! I wish I could have taken more of them. I've probably lost much of what I gained, but on the bright side I still have the course materials!
- I finished the French Duolingo skill tree at some point. 2016 maybe? Anyway there's still lots of reviewing I can benefit from there.
- In May I signed up for the 2018-2019 Language Super Challenge, but haven't participated at all. I just never got going, the bot wasn't working right, I was locked out of the forum (I just got my password reset today! Yay!)... Basically it's been a lazy year for language learning. All I've really done in 2018 is a bit of Duolingo. But I've decided to start tracking for the Super Challenge anyway. I never complete it even with the full 20 months, so there's no way I will in 12, but I'll still track what I do.
- At the end of 2017, I did a job interview in French!! Well, they spoke French. I mostly responded in English. It was for a job in a French immersion school, that my French was nowhere near good enough for, but which they were having trouble filling so I was encouraged to apply anyway. I did not get the job, on account of my low French level. However, the interview did lead to me getting a job in an English school in February, which is my honest-to-goodness dream job!! This is not really related to my language learning, but makes me really happy, so I'm sharing it anyway.
So, 2019! The 365 Day Challenge requires me to study French for at least half an hour every day. I'm going to start off with Duolingo reviews, and maybe pulling out my course materials from all my French classes to go over. I know there's a lot of grammar that I need to work on. I've also got loads of reading materials readily available, as well as movies/shows I can watch. We'll see where the year takes me! Hopefully to a conversational level in French!
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Editing to add this list of old logs I managed to track down at HTLAL (and one from here):
Lianne's Holiday Season with Toki Pona (2010)
Lianne’s TAC 2011 Fun Times - Team Ŭ (2011)
Lianne’s TAC 2012 - The Romantics (2012)
Lianne's 2013 Log - Esperanto (2013 - one whole post lol)
Lianne's 2014 Return to French (2014)
Lianne's Log, Mostly French (2016)
Wow, that was a sad look at my inconsistency over the years! That also might not be all my logs; I can't log in to HTLAL anymore so I'm dependent on Google searching for my old logs.