Le groupe français 2016 - 2023 Les Voyageurs

[tomgosse]

Hi everyone,

Just found the forum and the group today. Can I please join? I'm an absolute beginner at French. Is that okay?

George

You're in. When you set up a your personal log let me know and I'll add it to the list.

[Doraemong's Pocket]

I've finally signed up for Netflix after reading about it being a decent tool for language learning.

As Korea doesn't have Netflix yet I'm using a VPN which thankfully allows me to pretend I'm in France. As a result there is a load of French series/films and both dubbed and subtitled US/UK stuff.

Well worth the 8 euros a month.

[Bao]

... I, on the other hand, invited myself.

I wanted to ask for recommendations for audiobooks that you personally enjoyed a lot. I have an abonnement for audible.de which has many of the French titles, but I haven't been able to find anything that keeps my focus on the story.

[tomgosse]

... I, on the other hand, invited myself.

You're in now!

I wanted to ask for recommendations for audiobooks that you personally enjoyed a lot. I have an abonnement for audible.de which has many of the French titles, but I haven't been able to find anything that keeps my focus on the story.

I don't have a lot of knowledge about Audible, but I have downloaded some books from Project Gutenberg. My preference is for mysterys and adventures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I like authors such as Jules Verne, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, and Maurice Le Blanc.

I must add that I still at a point where I listen to or read the book in English first then listen to it French while reading it.

[Bao]

I don't have a lot of knowledge about Audible, but I have downloaded some books from Project Gutenberg. My preference is for mysterys and adventures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I like authors such as Jules Verne, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, and Maurice Le Blanc.

I must add that I still at a point where I listen to or read the book in English first then listen to it French while reading it.

I listened to the recording of Le tour du monde en 80 jours from Librivox/Project Gutenberg before and I loved several of the speakers, especially that one Canadian girl.
I must admit I completely forgot about librivox because what I am looking for is a book with modern vocabulary which I can listen to many times, like I did with the Artemis Fowl and How to train your dragon series for English. (Shh, I love these kinds of series.)
But I just remembered I'd wanted to read Le trois mousquetaires in French for the longest time - I think I read the German translation when I was around twelve and I remember little more than what the book looked like. :'D

Also, I think that that's totally valid? I would probably understand more that way too, but I prefer listening to the same text several times while keeping my hands busy, because I tend to start reading books and not finishing them.

[tomgosse]

Qu'avez-vous mangé aujourd'hui?

J'ai mangé un « tofu scramble » pour le petit-déjeuner, un repas chinois pour le déjeuner, et une soupe pour le dîner. Et vous ?

[Bao]

J'ai mangé ... ouf, de la cuisine anarchique. C'est-à-dire, j'ai cuisiné n'importe quoi que j'avais chez moi - du riz, des petit-pois, des pousses de soja, du surimi et des épices.

[PeterMollenburg]

Je n'ai pas eu beaucoup de temps ce matin pour le petit déjeuner. Alors, je n'ai mangé qu'un peu de fromage. J'étais pressé parce que j'étais en train de réparer ma voiture, en fait, de trouver une partie du dispositif/système de gaz pour le moteur de ma voiture. J'ai du l'acheté ce matin avant d'arriver a mon emploi où je suis maintenant (je suis arrivé tôt). Et j'ai seuelment du fromage avec moi pour le reste de la journée aussi (un problème de temps encore).... J'ai choisi du fromage parce que je suis une alimentation pauvre en hydrates de carbone ces jours-là.

[Arnaud]

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[Sizen]

Si on en croit l'effet Dunning-Kruger, mieux vaut se sous-estimer car ça veut dire qu'on est plus calé en la matière qu'on le pense.

Moi perso, j'aime bien les gens qui croient avoir un niveau A1 alors qu'en réalité, leur niveau se rapproche plus du B1. Du moins, je les préfère largement aux gens qui croient maîtriser parfaitement la langue et qui se la pètent dès qu'ils en ont l'occasion.