I paused on L’étranger last week (will push through this week maybe 1 page per day) because I got more engrossed in the graded book called “Ã la découverte du Canada”, It was right at my level. Most of the words/phrases bolded in the book were the ones that I didn’t knew. It was more pleasant to read due to less look ups. I completed reading the book.
The next graded reader will be a book by Kit Embers which I stopped at 64% previously.
Nice to hear that you are making progress! And I love to hear that you paused reading and moved on to something else for a bit; I’ve heard that it can be quite a common problem that people can’t “pause” or “come back to the book later” and forcefully push themselves through a book they started, which can ruin a good book.
For L’étranger I am only still halfway in the first chapter so I’m not too worried about ruining the book. I am happy to just understand what I am reading. I went back to the kit ember book after more than a month, the story came back easily but it is a graded reader and relatively simple content.
For latin, i’m just reading LLPSI and texts.
For ukrainian, i’m playing metro with ukrainian subtitles/audio, so far not too much understood xd (though i can read ever so slightly faster now)
Cool it looks very interesting, Metro also has French audio, added to my list of games to play.
Metro the dystopian game? Nice! I haven’t given it a try yet - also wanted to try Stalker 2!
Yes - the game and the book are set in russia/in russian however, the studio is ukrainian and the translation is very solid. I want to get my hands on stalker, too but i like to wait for sales.
Can’t wait to try out the entire stalker franchise :D
Didn’t know there was a book and that it was Ukrainian, cool! And ah, a fellow !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works ;)
We are everywhere!
Metro is kind of complicated, the original writer, dmitry glukhovsky is russian, and wrote the book in russian set in moscow.
But, 4A games, which is the studio that developed the games, is set in kyiv (and malta, strangely).
PS: 4A games was founded by developers who worked at GSC, who also made stalker. These games are very related!
Oh wow, small world lol.
Poorly as usual. I did watch some target language tv though
Did you use subtitles? TV has helped me quite a lot with learning.
Yes but I kind of suck finding subtitles. It’s really hard especially when you have a lot of episodes. It’s helped me too
Same, and they are also useless if it’s not in sync.
A YT channel i subscribe to posted a bunch of French songs to encourage you to learn more. I really enjoyed the tracks. Started exploring more. It is helping my French, but i still have a long way to go.
That is cool I listen to french songs sometimes in background but have not used them for intensive study. I think those song which repeat words/phrases alot help me remember the word/phrases.
I like this artist, Stromae
I listen to this playlist of various artists sometime.
One of the first song I heard that got me interested in the language. Jacques Brel - Amsterdam another one of his song. Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
For variety, you can try opera as well. They drag out each word which I find interesting. Example Habanera de “Carmen”: “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”
I did have Ne quitte pas on my playlist, but it really dragged down the vibe. I have been loving Soldat Louis, Louis Attaque, dionysos, and GIMS. I will definitely check out your playlist
Yea ne quitte pas is sad. That playlist was just something I found online, I think it is created by an online school. It is mostly happy songs, and fairly clear in their singing.
I saw GIMS in that playlist.
Songs are awesome! It’s so much easier to remember new words when they are a part of a nice song.
