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mouse
Newbie ![]() Joined: 21 October 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
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I just found this wonderful site. I can't believe I didn't see it sooner (I have already bought units 18-24)
In your opinion, what is the hardest unit in the the 24 units that are offered? In my opinion, the unit with the material about the order of object pronouns was the hardest (I think it was unit 8 to 9); despite the drills and repetition, I still hesitate when saying a sentence with object pronouns (of course much better than before though).
The first unit was also hard; the pronounciation took me almost forever to learn!
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Sir Nigel
Contributor ![]() Joined: 16 March 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 35 |
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I assume you didn't have previous experience with French when you started. How long was it before you were mostly confident with pronouncing French? |
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mouse
Newbie ![]() Joined: 21 October 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
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After about four days (9 hours) of learning how to pronounce french online, I had a good knowledge of the sounds, rhythm, and other elements that do not exist in english (liaisons, required contractions, etc.). Most of the material I could have skipped and learned later, but at the time, I did not know what was important.
It only took another 2 days to be comfortable.
Also, I'm surprised that the pronounciation notes were taken out when the course was revised; there must be a good reason why because french pronounciation is not as easy as spanish (which has these notes). Edited by mouse - 29 October 2006 at 4:07pm |
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daristani
Contributor ![]() Joined: 04 March 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 104 |
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FSI produced a separate French Phonology course which should probably be used prior to the Basic Course. Per my understanding, this course (both book and audio) has been donated to the site, and will find its way on-line eventually.
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onebir
Ambassador ![]() Joined: 16 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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It's really great you wrote this. I'm doing the object pronouns order bit now, and it's a real killer. But if it's the hardest part, maybe, just maybe, I can make it through and get on to... the subjunctive ![]() Edited by onebir - 28 December 2006 at 4:41pm |
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Douaisien
Newbie ![]() Joined: 16 February 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
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Yeah, Unit 8 and 9 are really hard.I am almost at the end of 9.mouse, how did you get good at the order of object pronouns?Did you just do the drills in FSI?
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mouse
Newbie ![]() Joined: 21 October 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
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After doing the drills about 20 times through, it's hard not to be good at it (you basically assimilate every possible pattern of object pronouns, which is the goal)
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