Lianne's 365 Days of French

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Lianne
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Mon May 20, 2019 3:16 am

French 365 Day Challenge
Day 137:
26 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 11
45 minutes watching Angel (Judgement)
45 minutes watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Real Me)

Day 138:
45 minutes watching Angel (Are You Now or Have You Ever Been)
30 minutes Duolingo
at least 30 minutes doing the Weekly Writing Challenge

ASL 6 Week Challenge
May 17: nothing
May 18: 30 minutes. I learned the rest of the vocabulary for lesson 4.

Regarding the subject of FSI: I started it today! More to come in my next update (since this one didn't cover today, as it isn't over yet).
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Tue May 21, 2019 2:30 am

French 365 Day Challenge
Day 139:
2 hours FSI French Basic, unit 1

Day 140:
1 hour, 15 minutes FSI French Basic, unit 1

Thank you to everyone who responded to my questions about where I should go from here in my studying! I decided to give FSI French Basic a try, and I'm glad that I did. So far I've completed unit 1. It was easy in terms of the content covered, so I just quickly read through the grammar sections and vocab, but I did do all of the drills. I think that stuff like that, even when it's relatively easy, can help me with my fluency and automaticity. And looking ahead at future units, there's definitely more difficult grammar to come! I can see why some people can't hack it, but I think FSI and I are going to get along famously. :)

ASL 6 Week Challenge
May 19: 30 minutes. I watched the video for lesson 4.
May 20: nothing.
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Sat May 25, 2019 4:47 am

French 365 Day Challenge
Day 141:
1 hour FSI French Basic, unit 2

Day 142:
45 minutes watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Replacement)

Day 143:
27 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 12
5 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 144:
29 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 13
30 minutes FSI French Basic, unit 2

ASL 6 Week Challenge
May 21-24: nothing. I'm not really doing very well at this whole 6WC thing. (It's the lack of bot, I'm telling you!)
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Fri May 31, 2019 12:54 am

Whoops, went a while without an update there! Let's see if I can puzzle together what I did each day.

French 365 Day Challenge
Day 145:
28 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 14
30 minutes FSI French Basic, unit 2

Day 146:
1 hour, 30 minutes watching Angel (First Impressions; Untouched)
45 minutes watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Out of My Mind)

Day 147:
27 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 15
5 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 148:
27 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 16
5 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 149:
30 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 17

I'm pretty sure that's right! :lol:

ASL 6 Week Challenge
OMG don't even ask me.
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Fri May 31, 2019 2:17 pm

As I approach the end of the Pimsleur French courses I have access to, I took out Pimsleur French Plus from the library. French Plus is meant to be done after French I-III, and was created before French IV and V. It's only 10 lessons long. Does anyone know if those 10 lessons are the same as the first 10 of French IV? Or are they totally separate things?

Sadly, my library doesn't have French IV and V. So French Plus is probably the furthest I'll get in my Pimsleur journey.
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Tue Jun 04, 2019 2:36 am

French 365 Day Challenge
Day 150:
28 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 18
5 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 151:
30 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 19

Day 152:
30 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 153:
30 minutes FSI French Basic, unit 2

Day 154:
1 hour reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

This past weekend was the Pride festival here, so it's honestly amazing that I got anything done at all. I'm so exhausted! I had to get up on both Saturday AND Sunday at getting-up-for-work times, i.e. 6:30ish. On Saturday I ran a 5km race (not awesomely, but not terribly) and then hung around the festival for a bit. On Sunday I went to a pancake breakfast, rally, parade, and extremely crowded festival! It was amazing but I am fresh out of spoons lol.

ASL 6 Week Challenge
I swear I haven't dropped ASL. I just haven't had time! At the rally on Sunday, I did watch the ASL interpreter through all the speeches! I understood that he was using the CITY sign to translate "community". He was really mesmerising to watch! ASL is so beautiful. I especially love the way it's done in front of large crowds, with HUGE movements and using the whole body, like a dance.
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:17 am

French 365 Day Challenge
Day 155:
30 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 20

Day 156:
30 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 21

Day 157:
27 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 22
5 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 158:
30 minutes Pimsleur French III, lesson 23

Day 159:
30 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 160:
30 minutes reading La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier: Rumeurs

Day 161:
51 minutes watching Notre planète (Les jungles)

Day 162:
50 minutes watching Notre planète (Les eaux côtières)

June is killing me! I'm exhausted all the time! Just two and a half weeks until I'm on summer vacation. Twelve more days of work. That's both immensely stressful and a source of hope. :lol: Anyway, that's why I haven't been on here daily tracking my time, which is just making things harder for me, since it's very hard to remember my activities for the past week! It's a process of going, ok, here are the days I have to account for, I did these Pimsleur lessons, and watched these shows, did some reading, and for sure hit my half hour mark every day. Now, what did I do on what days?? But I think I got it right. I have at least a bit of a routine, which helps.

ASL 6 Week Challenge
Well, the 6 Week Challenge ended, and I sucked. C'est la vie. French was my priority, I was tired, and also I've been getting weird pains in my wrist and hand and ASL was not helping! Hopefully it's just a temporary thing.
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Carmody » Thu Jun 13, 2019 1:02 pm

Many thanks for sharing your resources and in particular: Notre planète!
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby sirgregory » Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:00 pm

Lianne wrote:2) Am I too late to do things like FSI or Cortina?
In other words, would I be wasting my time to now do FSI Basic and/or Phonology and/or Cortina? I hear so many good things about them. But sometimes I think it's ridiculous to start doing courses for beginners when I'm not a beginner. BUT, if some of my skills suck so bad that I feel like a beginner, then maybe I should act like one.


Does "Cortina" refer to this book?

https://www.amazon.com/Conversational-F ... 805014977/

It looks like conversations arranged topically (family, going to the bank/a restaurant, etc.). That style is "the Cortina method"?

There's no preview for the French but there is for some of the other languages. To me, it looks like a reasonable secondary source at the introductory level. For intermediate, yeah, I don't know if it would be as useful.

Edit: After looking at the whole thing, it's more challenging than I initially supposed from the table of contents and the first lesson. The lessons ramp up in difficulty and the last few dialogues are lengthy and are entirely in the target language.
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Re: Lianne's 365 Days of French

Postby Lianne » Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:07 am

sirgregory wrote:
Lianne wrote:2) Am I too late to do things like FSI or Cortina?
In other words, would I be wasting my time to now do FSI Basic and/or Phonology and/or Cortina? I hear so many good things about them. But sometimes I think it's ridiculous to start doing courses for beginners when I'm not a beginner. BUT, if some of my skills suck so bad that I feel like a beginner, then maybe I should act like one.


Does "Cortina" refer to this book?

https://www.amazon.com/Conversational-F ... 805014977/

It looks like conversations arranged topically (family, going to the bank/a restaurant, etc.). That style is "the Cortina method"?

There's no preview for the French but there is for some of the other languages. To me, it looks like a reasonable secondary source at the introductory level. For intermediate, yeah, I don't know if it would be as useful.

Yes, I think that is the same thing, but it's also free online! See here. I know it's aimed at beginners, but I have also heard that it's quite challenging and introduces a lot of grammar very quickly, which is why I thought it might work for an intermediate student with holes (like I have) too. I haven't tried it though. I have started FSI (though I haven't gotten very far yet because June is insane).
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