This morning, I was advised, by a person who told me, essentially, that my French sucked, to just listen to French language programs. Not to understand them, just to hear the rhythm of the words. For two to three hours at a time. Background sounds.
Ooooch.
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About two hours of listening later....huh. The words are still mostly incomprehensible, but they're starting to sound familiar. Maybe she's onto something, after all.
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The next day: listening, playing it loud enough to hear the words but not loud enough to hear them clearly, words that I know are starting to pop up, every so often. This isn't a way to learn the meaning of words, but the words themselves, yeah, maybe.
4 comments:
Hmm- you're onto something.
Someone suggested to us to let Baby listen to music in Spanish so she could start to learn the rhythm and inflection of the words. We tried it a couple of times, but she didn't pay any attention to it and it made me loco.
It doesn't have to be loud. And if you can survive Raffi or the equivilent....
Higgs Boson walks into a church. The priest says...I'm sorry, we don't recognize your existance. Higgs replies..."Well, you can't have mass without me....
pah dum dum...
Nah, the best way to speak French is to listen to it being spoken. Learn the rhythms. Then get stuck on an all French speaking fire fighting crew in Chicoutimi for six weeks.
Le feu! Le feu!
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