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hamworld05
Mar 29, 2007, 12:39 PM
How do I further develop my French fluency?

shygrneyzs
Mar 29, 2007, 12:41 PM
What have you done so far?

hamworld05
Mar 29, 2007, 12:44 PM
What have you done so far?

To improve my french fluency? Nothing.

Clough
Mar 29, 2007, 01:02 PM
Unless you are able to go to France and mingle with the people, or find someone near you who is fluent in French with whom you could practice. I would try using the information found on the following links to supplement and enhance the French that you already know.

You could also purchase some educational CD's that are in French.

Perhaps there are some games on the internet that are in French.

Maybe you could get involved in online forums in French and tell the people there that you are trying to improve your fluency.

What about having a French "Pen Pal?"

Learn French - Online Lessons and Tips to Learn French (http://french.about.com/)

Learn French - Materials and tips to help you learn French (http://french.about.com/cs/francophonie/a/learnfrench.htm)

The French Tutorial, Learn French for free - Welcome to the French Tutorial (http://www.frenchtutorial.com/)

Learn French online FREE with French language lessons and unique question generator! (http://www.frenchassistant.com/default.asp)

Learn French (http://www.homestead.com/Anne_Fox/LearningFrench.html)

Resources for Learning French (http://www.fourmilab.ch/francais/lfrench.html)

Learn French (http://www.dailyfrenchpod.com/)

Learn free: French Lessons (http://www.france-pub.com/french/)

kaleidoscope
Apr 4, 2007, 12:41 PM
How fluent are you?

You could try talking in french to other people you know who are fluent, thus improving your accent and vocabulary. Watching french movies (without subtitles! :P) or going on holiday there is good too - just generally immersing yourself in the language.

hamworld05
Apr 4, 2007, 02:31 PM
I'd say I'm OK in French. If there is such a thing, I'm an A student in French, I had all 84s in Oral Communication, Writing, and Reading.

hamworld05
Apr 4, 2007, 02:33 PM
how fluent are you?

you could try talking in french to other people you know who are fluent, thus improving your accent and vocabulary. watching french movies (without subtitles! :P) or going on holiday there is good too - just generally immersing yourself in the language.

Good idea. I can always just talk to my French teacher and I have plenty of cousins who speak French!

kaleidoscope
Apr 4, 2007, 02:49 PM
You're lucky. :]
I'm studying languages too but I hardly ever get to go on holiday so I mainly rely on talking to my french friend.

Lowtax4eva
Apr 4, 2007, 05:11 PM
If you have money (or bittorrent), Rosetta stone french is supposed to be one of the best!

hamworld05
Apr 4, 2007, 06:24 PM
If you have money (or bittorrent), Rosetta stone french is supposed to be one of the best!

That's funny. I used to have Bittorrent! What's Rosetta stone french?

Lowtax4eva
Apr 4, 2007, 06:33 PM
Rosetta Stone is a program that helps you learn languages, it's supposed to be awesome, your would need to get the main program and then the french add-on

hamworld05
Apr 4, 2007, 06:34 PM
Oh, OK! Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do it in my spare time...

kaleidoscope
Apr 5, 2007, 04:51 AM
Some sort of podcast I'm guessing?