Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis – Part Three
Part three of our series on faux amis - these false friends will always be tricky for students of both French and English.
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07, 2013
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06, 2013
Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis – Part Two
How good is your French? Not only do some words mean something totally different but the use of phrases and sentences too. We continue our journey into the confusing world of faux-amis.
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05, 2013
Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis – Part One
How good is your French? I do not, in fact, advocate fluency where fluency is not going to happen, and I always insist people try to not worry about it too much. As long as you get your message across it really doesn’t matter so very much.
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01, 2013
French language: The benefits of being bilingual
Either way, whether bilingual from childhood or from education, bilingualism or even multilingualism is a rapidly growing social phenomenon. It is often borne not from choice but necessity, as we all try to live in an ever-globalised world.
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12, 2012
The best of French in Chicago: French language classes for adults
Is building your French language skills one of your New Years resolutions? Then you’re in luck. Chicago offers a wealth of class options so you can make 2013 the year you learn French - and connect and engage with fellow French speakers and Francophiles at the same time.
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11, 2012
5 tips to learning French your way: my DIY language course
I had tried formal French classes before but didn’t find it very useful – the classes were too slow and not necessarily what I wanted to do. So, I built myself a personalised French language course. Here’s how I did it.
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10, 2012
Life after college: What to do with a French major?
Majoring in French seems worldly and intellectually stimulating, and can provide a solid education, but does that 'French Culture and Civilization' course translate to the job market?
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07, 2012
Don’t ask people to correct your French
Learning a language is tough. You cannot be perfect right away and it's likely that you'll make mistakes. You want the basic ones to be corrected, but it's a rare skill to be able to know which mistakes are bad and which ones can fly…
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04, 2012
Don’t freeze in French: go with the flow
Now, most language students do something else. They add two phases. Instead of just hearing and understanding, they hear, transform into words, translate, and then understand. Some of them even visualize a written sentence before translating it.
