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French - the bane of my existence
a year ago
A TL;DR cause I dunno how long this rant will be and how many will read it:
Looking for people that can speak French to learn French with. If you’re willing to help, please let me know (contact me either via discord or telegram and say why your contacting me, getting tons of scammers lately q-q)
With that being said: time for my rant about learning French.
French. A language with romantic roots - quite fitting considering it’s spoken in France (duh) where Paris is located. The city of love.
But learning French as a German. It more and more feels like an impossible task. In the beginning it was all easy going, everything was quite simple.
But as more and more advanced it got - the harder it got. Especially past and future tenses seem random to me at times, with no real logic behind them. Not to mention when to exactly use words like “en” or “y”.
I’m at a level where I can hold somewhat of a conversation - though I still feel like I make a ton of mistakes.
And the hardest part - speaking and listening.
German by itself. It’s pretty consistent when it comes on how to pronounce a word. And pronunciation is generally “hard”. I don’t really know how to explain it but you know the memes about German pronunciation.
Now take French. It feels like sometimes half the word doesn’t get pronounced, while all the words flow into each other. It’s really hard to make out what’s being said at times cause I don’t hear singular words, but - let’s just call it a jibberish of letters. Even though I know what the word means when it’s written down - I simply can’t make it out in spoken French.
Duolingo - which I’ve been using so far - can only get you so far. And I feel I’ve been stuck at a point for quite a while now where it’s better to start actively using French in order to be able to improve on it.
So yeah. I’m looking for more people that would be willing to help me learn French. No need to be a native French speaker, just be confident in your French I guess. So yeah, hit me up on either telegram or discord (“takkju” on both platforms) if interested!
As for now. Time to hide my introverted butt now cause jeeesh, for some reason it took me a lot of courage to write this.
Looking for people that can speak French to learn French with. If you’re willing to help, please let me know (contact me either via discord or telegram and say why your contacting me, getting tons of scammers lately q-q)
With that being said: time for my rant about learning French.
French. A language with romantic roots - quite fitting considering it’s spoken in France (duh) where Paris is located. The city of love.
But learning French as a German. It more and more feels like an impossible task. In the beginning it was all easy going, everything was quite simple.
But as more and more advanced it got - the harder it got. Especially past and future tenses seem random to me at times, with no real logic behind them. Not to mention when to exactly use words like “en” or “y”.
I’m at a level where I can hold somewhat of a conversation - though I still feel like I make a ton of mistakes.
And the hardest part - speaking and listening.
German by itself. It’s pretty consistent when it comes on how to pronounce a word. And pronunciation is generally “hard”. I don’t really know how to explain it but you know the memes about German pronunciation.
Now take French. It feels like sometimes half the word doesn’t get pronounced, while all the words flow into each other. It’s really hard to make out what’s being said at times cause I don’t hear singular words, but - let’s just call it a jibberish of letters. Even though I know what the word means when it’s written down - I simply can’t make it out in spoken French.
Duolingo - which I’ve been using so far - can only get you so far. And I feel I’ve been stuck at a point for quite a while now where it’s better to start actively using French in order to be able to improve on it.
So yeah. I’m looking for more people that would be willing to help me learn French. No need to be a native French speaker, just be confident in your French I guess. So yeah, hit me up on either telegram or discord (“takkju” on both platforms) if interested!
As for now. Time to hide my introverted butt now cause jeeesh, for some reason it took me a lot of courage to write this.
All I know is that I almost failed school because of English, learning essentially only the basics there. While afterwards, interacting more with the internet (and the furry fandom especially), I really started to learn English.
It also didn’t feel like I’m constantly hitting one wall after another that stopped me from progressing like French does every time a new concept gets introduced (like currently: using the future tense).
It all just feels like a big, inconsistent mess to me x.x