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WordReference.com	WordReference n'est pas qu'un dictionnaire multilingue, mais aussi des forums où on peut discuter tout ce qui concerne les langues et les cultures. Je le consulte souvent pour apprendre un mot, puis je lis des fils sur le mot en question, puis je cherche les traductions des mots utilisés dans les discussions (qui sont souvent bilingues), et ainsi de suite. Je finis par oublier la raison pour laquelle j'y suis allée, mais j'apprends beaucoup comme ça. Mon pseudo est calembourde
TV et DVDs	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. The TV in my previous apartment had teletext, so I watched TV shows in French with the subtitles for the hearing impaired. That way, I can more easily recognise the words I know, and I can learn the spelling of words I don't know so that I can quickly look them up on WordReference. The subtitles aren't always identical to the audio, so sometimes I learn different ways of saying the same things. I never watch with English subtitles... it's too distracting trying to understand the same thing in two languages at once, and I'd probably end up not paying any attention to the French. Lire la suite
TV et DVDs	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. The TV in my previous apartment had teletext, so I watched TV shows in French with the subtitles for the hearing impaired. That way, I can more easily recognise the words I know, and I can learn the spelling of words I don't know so that I can quickly look them up on WordReference. The subtitles aren't always identical to the audio, so sometimes I learn different ways of saying the same things. I never watch with English subtitles... it's too distracting trying to understand the same thing in two languages at once, and I'd probably end up not paying any attention to the French. Lire la suite
Livres	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Fairly early in my French learning, I was lucky enough to come across Le Mystère de la Patience, the French translation of The Solitaire Mystery at a fair. I know the story well, having read it about five times in English, so I was able to follow it pretty well even in French. I should warn you that unless you already know the story, it's probably not a good book to start with... it has a complicated plot which could be difficult to follow even in English. Lire la suite
Livres	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Fairly early in my French learning, I was lucky enough to come across Le Mystère de la Patience, the French translation of The Solitaire Mystery at a fair. I know the story well, having read it about five times in English, so I was able to follow it pretty well even in French. I should warn you that unless you already know the story, it's probably not a good book to start with... it has a complicated plot which could be difficult to follow even in English. Lire la suite
Événements	Il y a des sujets que j'imagine que je comprends quelle que soit la langue. Je vais aux conférénces et autres événements sur ces sujets afin d'apprendre un peu de français tout en apprenant des faits interessants. Lire la suite
Événements	Il y a des sujets que j'imagine que je comprends quelle que soit la langue. Je vais aux conférénces et autres événements sur ces sujets afin d'apprendre un peu de français tout en apprenant des faits interessants. Lire la suite
Chansons	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I listen to a lot of music in French. I find that if I listen to something a lot, I don't just remember the general meaning of what was said, but the exact wording, pronunciation, and intonation. So after having listened to so many French songs, I have a bank of ready-made example phrases in my head which I can call upon if I ever have a doubt about how to form a particular grammatical structure, or the gender of a noun, or anything like that. Lire la suite
Chansons	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I listen to a lot of music in French. I find that if I listen to something a lot, I don't just remember the general meaning of what was said, but the exact wording, pronunciation, and intonation. So after having listened to so many French songs, I have a bank of ready-made example phrases in my head which I can call upon if I ever have a doubt about how to form a particular grammatical structure, or the gender of a noun, or anything like that. Lire la suite
Forums	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. To practise actually producing French rather than just understanding it, and also in the hope of meeting real people who don't speak English (or at least pretend not to), I post on various French-speaking forums on topics I am interested in. It takes a lot of time, because, in French as well as English, I always read what I've written several times and check all aspects of the grammar. And inevitably I still end up making mistakes. But I learn a lot in the process. Lire la suite
Forums	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. To practise actually producing French rather than just understanding it, and also in the hope of meeting real people who don't speak English (or at least pretend not to), I post on various French-speaking forums on topics I am interested in. It takes a lot of time, because, in French as well as English, I always read what I've written several times and check all aspects of the grammar. And inevitably I still end up making mistakes. But I learn a lot in the process. Lire la suite
La Pomme	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Telling myself that I'd understand my Mac in any language, one of the first things I did, after learning the very basics of French grammar, was to switch my Mac to French. In general I know what all the menus and buttons are, it doesn't matter if they're called something different. I'd switch it back occasionally if there was something I didn't understand, or to learn a new application. Lire la suite
La Pomme	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Telling myself that I'd understand my Mac in any language, one of the first things I did, after learning the very basics of French grammar, was to switch my Mac to French. In general I know what all the menus and buttons are, it doesn't matter if they're called something different. I'd switch it back occasionally if there was something I didn't understand, or to learn a new application. Lire la suite
Pimsleur Quick and Simple French for English Speakers	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. The very first thing I did, in late January 2005, the day I found out that I'd be moving to Geneva, was to download Pimsleur's French for English Speakers audiobook from Audible (now available on iTunes.) I'd listened to the equivalent audiobook in German and it seemed like a good enough way to get a basic introduction. It's eight half-hour lessons covering exactly the same stuff as the German one. Down to the exact phrases and conversations, with slight variations to suit the language. Hello, do you speak English, I speak a little bit of French, where is Rue Saint-Jacques, Rue Saint-Jacques is not here, Boulevard Saint-Michel is here, Rue Saint-Jacques is over there, etc. It's a good way to get a few basics and a general feel for the language just as somewhere to start from, though everything I learnt has been long since been overwritten by a more general grammatical understanding. Lire la suite
Cours de français au CERN	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Soon after starting my fellowship at CERN, I did two French courses there. Since I'd already started teaching myself some French, I was put in the 'false beginners' class, where they put people who either know a bit of French or speak a closely related language such as Italian or Spanish. So... all that effort teaching myself French and I may as well have been Spanish. Anyway, these courses were excellent... they are taught entirely in French. Here's an extract from my travelogue, in which I ramble about the benefits of such a course. Lire la suite
Cours de français au CERN	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Soon after starting my fellowship at CERN, I did two French courses there. Since I'd already started teaching myself some French, I was put in the 'false beginners' class, where they put people who either know a bit of French or speak a closely related language such as Italian or Spanish. So... all that effort teaching myself French and I may as well have been Spanish. Anyway, these courses were excellent... they are taught entirely in French. Here's an extract from my travelogue, in which I ramble about the benefits of such a course. Lire la suite
WordReference.com	WordReference n'est pas qu'un dictionnaire multilingue, mais aussi des forums où on peut discuter tout ce qui concerne les langues et les cultures. Je le consulte souvent pour apprendre un mot, puis je lis des fils sur le mot en question, puis je cherche les traductions des mots utilisés dans les discussions (qui sont souvent bilingues), et ainsi de suite. Je finis par oublier la raison pour laquelle j'y suis allée, mais j'apprends beaucoup comme ça. Mon pseudo est calembourde
Podcasts en français	J'écoute pas mal de podcasts de la Radio Suisse Romande. De cette façon, je m'expose plus au français parlé, tout en apprenant sur la culture suisse et l'actualité. J'espère que si j'écoute souvent les Suisses, je développerais un accent suisse (si ça existe) mais je sais que pour le moment j'ai un accent néo-zélandais. On pourrait dire qu'il faut enlever cet accent affreux (ou exotique et sexy ?) avant de préoccuper des accents régionaux (je l'ai dit moi-même sur wordreference) mais j'ai tant d'admiration pour mes connaissances qui ont des accents reconnaissable en anglais alors que ce n'est pas leur langue maternelle, que j'aspire à faire la même chose en français. En plus que ça, j'aime la Suisse et je serais fière si quelqu'un pensait que j'en viens. Mais bon, je divague. Je n'ai même pas dit tout ça sur la version anglaise de cette page. Lire la suite
Podcasts en français	J'écoute pas mal de podcasts de la Radio Suisse Romande. De cette façon, je m'expose plus au français parlé, tout en apprenant sur la culture suisse et l'actualité. J'espère que si j'écoute souvent les Suisses, je développerais un accent suisse (si ça existe) mais je sais que pour le moment j'ai un accent néo-zélandais. On pourrait dire qu'il faut enlever cet accent affreux (ou exotique et sexy ?) avant de préoccuper des accents régionaux (je l'ai dit moi-même sur wordreference) mais j'ai tant d'admiration pour mes connaissances qui ont des accents reconnaissable en anglais alors que ce n'est pas leur langue maternelle, que j'aspire à faire la même chose en français. En plus que ça, j'aime la Suisse et je serais fière si quelqu'un pensait que j'en viens. Mais bon, je divague. Je n'ai même pas dit tout ça sur la version anglaise de cette page. Lire la suite
Hugo French in 3 Months	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Having had some success with Hugo German in 3 months, a month before moving to Geneva I bought the French version of the book. It's somewhat different in format... clearly the authors are not constrained by the publisher name. Nonetheless I found it just as helpful. I finished reading it in two months, that is, a month after arriving in Geneva. I managed to get by in a few shops etc, although looking back at what I remember saying I'm embarrassed at how badly I phrased and pronounced things. Lire la suite
Hugo French in 3 Months	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Having had some success with Hugo German in 3 months, a month before moving to Geneva I bought the French version of the book. It's somewhat different in format... clearly the authors are not constrained by the publisher name. Nonetheless I found it just as helpful. I finished reading it in two months, that is, a month after arriving in Geneva. I managed to get by in a few shops etc, although looking back at what I remember saying I'm embarrassed at how badly I phrased and pronounced things. Lire la suite
Hugo Advanced French	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I bought this book complete with CDs, and started reading and listening to it some time during or after the CERN French course. I often re-read bits of it because some of the subtler points haven't entirely sunk in. The straight texts read on the CDs were useful in the beginning, when I needed to read and listen to a passage several times before understanding every word. The CD versions of exercises from the book are not so useful though, since the CD can't tell me whether I am pronouncing things correctly. I would have liked more listening exercises focussing on distinguishing different phonemes, but I guess what I really want to do is a phonetics course. In any case, considering the importance of French in my life I think the CDs are worth having.
Hugo Advanced French	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I bought this book complete with CDs, and started reading and listening to it some time during or after the CERN French course. I often re-read bits of it because some of the subtler points haven't entirely sunk in. The straight texts read on the CDs were useful in the beginning, when I needed to read and listen to a passage several times before understanding every word. The CD versions of exercises from the book are not so useful though, since the CD can't tell me whether I am pronouncing things correctly. I would have liked more listening exercises focussing on distinguishing different phonemes, but I guess what I really want to do is a phonetics course. In any case, considering the importance of French in my life I think the CDs are worth having.
Vivre à Genève	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Of course, one of the main reasons I learnt French was because I moved to Geneva, and one of the main reasons I wanted to move to Geneva was to learn French. But although I see plenty of signs and other things around in French, I don't get much French practice here. My colleagues all speak English, my friends all speak English (although I'm finally starting to find people who at least pretend not to.) Geneva is an international city. According to this most awesome book, Geneva is the canton with the largest percentage of people who do not speak any of the four official languages of Switzerland natively. A higher percentage (16.6) of people speak an 'other' language in Geneva than speak Rumansch in Graubünden (14.5). If you include the native speakers of other Swiss languages, 24.2% of inhabitants of Geneva are not native speakers of French. So it is very likely that if I go into town and speak French to a stranger for whatever reason, that person will hear my accent and respond in perfect English. It takes a lot of willpower to force them and myself to switch back to French, particularly when there's a one in four chance that my interlocutor is not a native French speaker either. Lire la suite
Vivre à Genève	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Of course, one of the main reasons I learnt French was because I moved to Geneva, and one of the main reasons I wanted to move to Geneva was to learn French. But although I see plenty of signs and other things around in French, I don't get much French practice here. My colleagues all speak English, my friends all speak English (although I'm finally starting to find people who at least pretend not to.) Geneva is an international city. According to this most awesome book, Geneva is the canton with the largest percentage of people who do not speak any of the four official languages of Switzerland natively. A higher percentage (16.6) of people speak an 'other' language in Geneva than speak Rumansch in Graubünden (14.5). If you include the native speakers of other Swiss languages, 24.2% of inhabitants of Geneva are not native speakers of French. So it is very likely that if I go into town and speak French to a stranger for whatever reason, that person will hear my accent and respond in perfect English. It takes a lot of willpower to force them and myself to switch back to French, particularly when there's a one in four chance that my interlocutor is not a native French speaker either. Lire la suite
Ce site	Bien que je puisse comprendre assez bien le français grâce aux autres trucs que j'ai mentionnés, j'ai du mal à l'écrire et à le parler. C'est pourquoi j'ai decidé de faire une version française de ce site. Si vous remarquez des fautes de grammaire ou même des tournures qui ne sonnent pas tout à fait naturelle, merci de me les signaler... c'est comme ça que j'apprends.
Ce site	Bien que je puisse comprendre assez bien le français grâce aux autres trucs que j'ai mentionnés, j'ai du mal à l'écrire et à le parler. C'est pourquoi j'ai decidé de faire une version française de ce site. Si vous remarquez des fautes de grammaire ou même des tournures qui ne sonnent pas tout à fait naturelle, merci de me les signaler... c'est comme ça que j'apprends.
Eureka's Languages of the World	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I really loved this software because it allowed me to learn French the same way I learn a programming language... by getting a general overview, and then diving in and looking things up as I go along. The main idea is that there is a passage in French, which the software can read aloud (word by word, phrase by phrase, or continuously.) Clicking on each word or phrase will give the translation, information on the grammar, and other stuff. There are also games based on the text, such as a cloze exercises and crosswords, which can be customised to use only certain parts of speech, or only certain words which you have trouble with. There's even a way to practise oral French, which gives feedback on pronunciation! I didn't use that much as in some cases I couldn't figure out what was supposedly wrong with my pronunciation, but I should try again now that my pronunciation has theoretically improved. And I got all this for NZ$10. The DVD contains not just French but nine other languages as well. Lire la suite
Eureka's Languages of the World	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I really loved this software because it allowed me to learn French the same way I learn a programming language... by getting a general overview, and then diving in and looking things up as I go along. The main idea is that there is a passage in French, which the software can read aloud (word by word, phrase by phrase, or continuously.) Clicking on each word or phrase will give the translation, information on the grammar, and other stuff. There are also games based on the text, such as a cloze exercises and crosswords, which can be customised to use only certain parts of speech, or only certain words which you have trouble with. There's even a way to practise oral French, which gives feedback on pronunciation! I didn't use that much as in some cases I couldn't figure out what was supposedly wrong with my pronunciation, but I should try again now that my pronunciation has theoretically improved. And I got all this for NZ$10. The DVD contains not just French but nine other languages as well. Lire la suite
Pimsleur Quick and Simple French for English Speakers	Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. The very first thing I did, in late January 2005, the day I found out that I'd be moving to Geneva, was to download Pimsleur's French for English Speakers audiobook from Audible (now available on iTunes.) I'd listened to the equivalent audiobook in German and it seemed like a good enough way to get a basic introduction. It's eight half-hour lessons covering exactly the same stuff as the German one. Down to the exact phrases and conversations, with slight variations to suit the language. Hello, do you speak English, I speak a little bit of French, where is Rue Saint-Jacques, Rue Saint-Jacques is not here, Boulevard Saint-Michel is here, Rue Saint-Jacques is over there, etc. It's a good way to get a few basics and a general feel for the language just as somewhere to start from, though everything I learnt has been long since been overwritten by a more general grammatical understanding. Lire la suite

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