Living in target country. Help me not squander this opportunity.
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:13 am
So it's a VERY long story about how i got started with french and how i ended up in france but i will keep it short and concise.
- Two years ago I began learning French with Pimsleur for the heck of it. Absolute0 prior knowledge of the language.
- Studying was sporadic at best. But made it to the tail end of French II in pimsleur.
Quickly realized pimsleur is really on going for regurgitating prepracticed phrases in pre-defined situations. So I realized I needed to get a grammar workbook. Started to improve grammar and sentence structure than realized my listening comprehension was downright deplorable.
Took sporadic lessons with online tutors talking about subjects on the fly, and again having my world rocked with by how poorly i could construct thoughts I did not "foresee".
Currently living in france and i seem to be at this absolutely horrible multi-level of language development with my skills alllllll over the place. For example:
My pronunciation/accent: B2/C1
My vocabulary: A2
Listening Comprehension: A2
Proper grammar structure for my sentences: A1/A2
It's really embarrassing living here. Because I'll enter a shop, restaurant, etc with my "pre meditated" phrase book of what i expect i'll have to say, and what I want to say. I get there and execute and it sounds so natural they assume i'm native or near bilingual. Then it's just deer in the head lights face for me ALTHOUGH my listening comprehension has come a long way since living here.
That said I've been here 6months already and I don't think i've progressed nearly as much as I should have. I really love the "easy french" series on youtube because it's literally the ONLY source online where i've found natural dialogue with both english and french subtitles underneath. Im just not exactly sure where to start because i open the french book i have to start improving my grammar and it's all stuff i know already but i know my current skill gap is because i skipped over grammar. Any advice would be appreciated, also this is my very first post on the forum so i apologize for any newbness in this situation.
- Two years ago I began learning French with Pimsleur for the heck of it. Absolute0 prior knowledge of the language.
- Studying was sporadic at best. But made it to the tail end of French II in pimsleur.
Quickly realized pimsleur is really on going for regurgitating prepracticed phrases in pre-defined situations. So I realized I needed to get a grammar workbook. Started to improve grammar and sentence structure than realized my listening comprehension was downright deplorable.
Took sporadic lessons with online tutors talking about subjects on the fly, and again having my world rocked with by how poorly i could construct thoughts I did not "foresee".
Currently living in france and i seem to be at this absolutely horrible multi-level of language development with my skills alllllll over the place. For example:
My pronunciation/accent: B2/C1
My vocabulary: A2
Listening Comprehension: A2
Proper grammar structure for my sentences: A1/A2
It's really embarrassing living here. Because I'll enter a shop, restaurant, etc with my "pre meditated" phrase book of what i expect i'll have to say, and what I want to say. I get there and execute and it sounds so natural they assume i'm native or near bilingual. Then it's just deer in the head lights face for me ALTHOUGH my listening comprehension has come a long way since living here.
That said I've been here 6months already and I don't think i've progressed nearly as much as I should have. I really love the "easy french" series on youtube because it's literally the ONLY source online where i've found natural dialogue with both english and french subtitles underneath. Im just not exactly sure where to start because i open the french book i have to start improving my grammar and it's all stuff i know already but i know my current skill gap is because i skipped over grammar. Any advice would be appreciated, also this is my very first post on the forum so i apologize for any newbness in this situation.