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Volunteer for someone like Melbourne French Theatre?

There seems to be a meet up group advertised online for people wanting to hang out and speak French but I'll leave that for you to research and decide.

Alliance Francaise De Melbourne could also be worth a look.
 
rdhopkins2 said:
Volunteer for someone like Melbourne French Theatre?

There seems to be a meet up group advertised online for people wanting to hang out and speak French but I'll leave that for you to research and decide.

Alliance Francaise De Melbourne could also be worth a look.
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If only I lived in Melbourne. :P
But yes, I'll have to have a look around.
 

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Dagless, as good of a teacher as Michel Thomas is, that American woman that he's trying to teach on the CD is an absolute idiot! :P
 
Engimal said:
Dagless, as good of a teacher as Michel Thomas is, that American woman that he's trying to teach on the CD is an absolute idiot! :p
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Lol i think i have those discs. Is it two girls and a guy? If so the one with the horrible voice is so hard to listen to, like scratching a chalkboard. I stopped with those audio lessons because they were dull and uninspiring.
 
RobbieGray17 said:
Lol i think i have those discs. Is it two girls and a guy? If so the one with the horrible voice is so hard to listen to, like scratching a chalkboard. I stopped with those audio lessons because they were dull and uninspiring.
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Na, in this one there is an English guy (who gets everything first try) and an American woman (who screws everything up).
 
Engimal said:
Na, in this one there is an English guy (who gets everything first try) and an American woman (who screws everything up).
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Actully it is the guy i listened to. Might have been a different group. But not all 3 people were in all the exercises. He was brutal. Even if they got it right he wanted them to be confident.
 

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RobbieGray17 said:
Ive heard thats a myth
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Each to their own.

I know when I stayed with friends in Germany who I know speak fluent English, we spoke English most of the time and any time I got lost in a conversation with a third party they would act as a translator. Once I started socialising with new friends (of friends etc.) who weren't confident English speakers it was a different ball game. I followed their conversation closely and began to pick things up, bit by bit.
 
rdhopkins2 said:
Join a pétanque club?
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H haha.. I have my own club right here in the kitchen... A school of pétanque actually.
Engimal said:
Na, in this one there is an English guy (who gets everything first try) and an American woman (who screws everything up).
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She definitely made it hard to listen too.
 
Just finished Michel Thomas' introductory course. C'est tres bon. Je suis pas tres confident maintenant, mais je suis [insert French word for 'learning' :p ].
 
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Engimal said:
Just finished Michel Thomas' introductory course. Ce tres bon. Je suis pas tres confident maintenant, mais je suis [insert French word for 'learning' :p ].
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Maybe c'était très bon. Je ne suis pas trop confiant mais je sais que si je travaille plus dur, puis j'ameliorerai mes français. :) cependant rappellez-vous que Je suis toujours en train de l'apprendre.

I reccommend listening to a band called fauve.
 
RobbieGray17 said:
Maybe c'était très bon. Je ne suis pas trop confiant mais je sais que si je travaille plus dur, puis j'ameliorerai mes français. :) cependant rappellez-vous que Je suis toujours en train de l'apprendre.

I reccommend listening to a band called fauve.
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Haha, that was the best I could come up with after four days of learning French. :p
Would a French person have understood what I was saying there, however 'broken' it may be?
 

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Engimal said:
Dagless, as good of a teacher as Michel Thomas is, that American woman that he's trying to teach on the CD is an absolute idiot! :p
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Haha Im going Deutsch - There is a lad who tries hard but they both similarly lack confidence. Not that annoying, but on CD4 Michel just has a 8 minute annoyed freakout and reiterates stuff he's done multiple times :p
 
I'm currently stuck on something. To form the first person, you cut off the -r and sound the consonant. For non -er verbs you don’t sound the consonant, right? So 'comprendre' used to say "I understand" becomes "Je comprends". But then I saw the example of "He understands" becomming "Il comprend". Why does that change? Or is that because it changes from "understand" to "understands", which I only realised while writing this message? :p
 
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Engimal said:
I'm currently stuck on something. To form the first person, you cut off the -r and sound the consonant. For non -er verbs you don’t sound the consonant, right? So 'comprendre' used to say "I understand" becomes "Je comprends". But then I saw the example of "He understands" becomming "Il comprend". Why does that change? Or is that because it changes from "understand" to "understands", which I only realised while writing this message? :p
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Download a verb conjugation sheet. You will understand there. This is why grammar is important.

Re verbs lose the re and add the following to each form.
s,s, -, ez, ons,ent
Those are regular verbs. There are a series of irregular ones you must remember.like battre which drops a t. Or boire which goie je bois, tu bois, il boit, nous buvons, vous buvez and ils boivent. You simply must rememer them.


Ir verbs go s,s,t,ssez,ssons,ssent. Je finis, ils finissent.

Er verbs go e, es,e,ez,ons,ent. Je parle, tu parles.
 
RobbieGray17 said:
Download a verb conjugation sheet. You will understand there. This is why grammar is important.

Re verbs lose the re and add the following to each form.
s,s, -, ez, ons,ent
Those are regular verbs. There are a series of irregular ones you must remember.like battre which drops a t. Or boire which goie je bois, tu bois, il boit, nous buvons, vous buvez and ils boivent. You simply must rememer them.


Ir verbs go s,s,t,ssez,ssons,ssent. Je finis, ils finissent.

Er verbs go e, es,e,ez,ons,ent. Je parle, tu parles.
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So in what situation does 'comprendre' become 'comprends'? I understand that it becomes 'comprend' in the context of 'Je comprend' but I can't remember why it would become 'comprends' for the life of me. I'm sure I've learnt it but I'm drawing a blank.
 
Engimal said:
So in what situation does 'comprendre' become 'comprends'? I understand that it becomes 'comprend' in the context of 'Je comprend' but I can't remember why it would become 'comprends' for the life of me. I'm sure I've learnt it but I'm drawing a blank.
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Just the way it is. Depending on whether it is singular plural etc.

I you (fam) he/she you, we, they.
je comprends
il comprend
 
RobbieGray17 said:
Just the way it is. Depending on whether it is singular plural etc.

I you (fam) he/she you, we, they.
je comprends
il comprend
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Okay, I think I sort of get it. One more question, perhaps very similar. I read the following:

For all verbs, the form for ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘it’ follows the same
sound as ‘I’. For example, for ‘he can’ think of ‘I can’.

I don't understand what they're saying here at all. Could you elaborate?
 

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