Hey, I'm interested in teaching myself French. Can any of you recommend a good audiobook I could use, or any general tips?
yeah, dont listen to your teacher! best french learning is how french talk in south of France, get the accent from there and you will be a winner. You have to get dictées all the time that the best way to learn, so you get use to the sound and how it must be written, this way is the fastest and the best. cause oyu remmeebr it and when you speak it oyu know how it must be written and it help a lot. then listening to french conversations in café, thats a huge boost in learning the language, (and people stories but htats another story! LOL!) i know no audio thing, contact the french consulat, they got tons of free stuff and can help oyu with that, by email or phone. usely they got a center when people can learn french for free. There is also the association for french tlaking people and to spread the french language with fans of french ready to help you out, and lots of tips to get from there. You can get more info on the internet or by just calling the french ambassy where oyu live or in London. If oyu want to know how they speak french in south of France, watch the movie " Manon des sources" in french, and also some Marcel Pagnol movies. l'accent de Marseilles. very strong, and very good, easy to take and to elarn the spoeak a way you can understand and get and it is funny too. So when you will speak french in France nobody will beleive you are a tourist.,and if oyu are in paris, htey will think you come from south of France! you might have the english accent on it as well, but it wil sound funny and charming, and i think parisian wil have it hard to beleive that an english boy could tlak french with l'accent de marseilles! I have teached danish friends to talk french fluently, and it was really cool, they know al the expressions all the slang, and feel very comfortable in France when tlaking to french people because they master the language completely. Thats my "south of France accent learning method" It works wonder so try it. eventually you cna get an online friend on skipe from south of france ot teach you. put an online add, or just make a skipe profile telling you look for someone to teach you.
I agree that south of France accent is really nice and I like to hear it but I wouldn't recommand it to a student because it would be hard to understand other accent with it (the same for the lovable quebec accent). Try to begin maybe with a more "classic" french
literally transated ..means "do you want to lie down with me tonight??"course everone knows it's like "do you want to sleep with me tonight??" sleeping is the last thing on their mind ....lol
Well, in fact "se coucher" is tantamout to "to lie down" or "to go to bed" in order to sleep (often used with the verb "aller" ) or to have fun with sbdy as tuatara said
If anything, the Breton region of France provides the best accent for folks from England, Ireland, USA, etc. to take after. I don't know what the first poster is talking about with a lot of her stuff. But that region is most similar to Irish/English culture and has quite a few ancient Celtic ties. A lot of Brittany was inspired by people from Britain beginning in the 11th century or so and going on for many years after. For quite sometime it was ruled by Britain. It was the last region to be taken back from France as well, so a lot of the Britain culture remains intact, though it is meshed in with obvious French culture. So I would say, go with the Breton way of speaking French. But, really, the best way to go is traditional French first and foremost as one poster has stated. The slang can come later. But French tend to be very polite anyways, much more than in English, so learn the formal and when you make some friends you can learn the informal slang. Bonne chance! I am learning as well.
