Hey! I’m reaching out for advice on acquiring a solid study plan for me to learn French. At the moment I just use Busuu the language learning app to help me. I study on the app (M-F every morning on my commute.) I learned how to study routinely from watching Zoe Languages on YouTube. I tried to watch French based TV shows and listen to podcasts but I’m not consistent enough. I also tried studying on the weekends using my ASSIMIL book but I’m not still consistent. Instead of learning, I run errands and prepare myself for the upcoming week. #Adulting 😖. Any advice on sticking to a plan as a fulltime working adult? Being fluent at a B2/C1 is a long term goal of mine. And I’m going to Paris this summer.

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do people who make the pâte patte distinction, sytematically also make the verb final -ai -ais distinction? Does one have to occur if the other one occurs?

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I’m looking for french films that will help me to speak in a beautiful, poetic way. I know French is already very beautiful but I would like to speak in a way that even French people find very beautiful.

I'm learning French and German because I will visit Europe this Christmas break and I already advanced enough in both language to understand bits of Celine Dion and Herbert Grönemeyer both who are bestselling artists of all times for the languages (Dion for French and Herbert for German). Enough I can sorta get the gist of the overall song abecause I memorized the lyrics entirely and even can actually directlyt ranslate bits in my head in an instant. But both artists are still quite difficult for me because when I actually try to hear the songs as a native would with the words being translated automatically, my head uses effort and I can get exhausted even if I can translate the bits in real time. Its not a 100% accurate translation either when I compare what I think in my head to the lyrics online translated by Google. I gotten to the point I'm able to enjoy them but I'm still not exactly listening tto the songs specificallly, I just know the gists of the songs after replaying them multiple times that I can rcall the gist at each melody of the lyric's sentence (esp after I also looked up the translations).

So I'm looking for artists, albums, and songs that a level 1 French learner could enjoy in the sense that someone learning the language will immediately translate the lyrics in their head because of simplicity with minimal mental focus? What bands and singers would fit this criteria? I ask you not to send children's genre stuff if possible as far as bands, singers, and albums go because I want something substantial (though I'm pretty fine with traditional rhymes and folksongs from the culture that kids commonly learn including those frequently taught in public schools) . Who and what would you recommend?

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The University of Quebec at Trois Rivieres has an immersion program in May 2024 --it is designed for older adults (45 and up) that runs for 3 weeks and costs about $3500 Canadian. It has many field trips, classes every day and is a lot of fun. Just posting FYI.

Here is a link with more info:

https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/gscw031?owa_no_site=2597&owa_no_fiche=176&owa_bottin=

We all know the cliche that French is the strangest of the Romance languages, the least similar of the children of Latin all with only Romanian as runner up (and even Romanian has a lot more in common with Latin such as the case system than French). However since I'm learning it because I will visit Paris around the hollidays this year, I might as well ask.

Despite being the oddjob of the family, will knowing French help a lot with learning other Romance languages? I will travel globally for the next few years. So its obvious I will return to Europe a couple of times and right now Italy is the biggest prospect for my 2nd Euro Trip. And some point I will go on a cruise across Latin America so Spanish and Portuguese is a must. Romania is one my to-do list too. Along the way I'm gonna visit a lot of places where pre-modern languages are still spoken in significant degree or at lest the locals still know a lot of older stuff like Corsican. So I ask despite being seen as the most foreign of the descendants of Latin, will French still help a lot in learning the other offshots of Latin in particular Italian and Spanish? Gonna ask also much of a direct use it will be for Romanian and Portuguese too.

Hi, to add more details to the title. We aren't from Canada and English is a 2nd language for us. He will go to early French immersion school this Sept. Kid doesn't typically speak English. We don't know any French. I am just learning on duo lingo and use some other resources. Would it be good or bad to teach some French words (with a bad accent) to kid? TIA.

Hello guys,

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