It's in my brain but I cannot ... how to say...
It's in my brain but it doesn’t come out
It's true lol it doesn’t come out
Hello everyone ! Today I'm here with Ally my French friend
Yes hello!
She helps me so much with French
No really it's so useful for me
Today I'd like to talk about how I am learning French without textbooks
And how I continue studying
because since I graduated high school I have barely used French
And now I'm in the situation where I can understand a lot but find it hard to speak
You see, when I talk to you I also make tons of mistakes
Yeah that's it
It's still a bit hard to speak
But you understand a lot
But at the same time, isn’t it the same with all languages?
No it's just French !
Really?
Nope it's just like that with French
But in general don't you understand before you can express yourself correctly?
I think my level advances like... the things that I can understand and express advance at the same pace
You are lucky!
Not everyone is like that!
Usually you understand first and then you can express yourself in a language
But for you the two are similar
Sometimes
And you're lucky. In French, even,
It's complicated in French.
But do you know why?
Cause I learnt French at school and there are lots of words and grammar that I know
It's in my brain but...how to say
It's in my brain but it doesn't come out
That's right lol it doesn't come out
never
Ok, so today we don't have airconditioing
It doesn't work. It broke
It doesn't work anymore even though we're in Singapore and it's 32 degrees C
34 degrees? I'm dying
We will try to make a video nevertheless
Like your dad says, tant pis (too bad, that's regrettable etc)
It's the phrase my dad loves the most
Ok Ally
But you see, you can make wind with that!
HAHAH yes I can make wind with that!
-You have a goal - Yes that's right - With my French - Exactly
Ok so the goal I have with Lindie is
to first help her evolve and improve in the way she expresses herself, if you like,
she expresses herself very well already and she understands a lot
but sometimes when she wants to express something
it's true that either she doesn't know the word in French
so I help her with vocabulary
it's just a lack of vocab sometimes, or sometimes it's simply... how to say
she uses words that are too advanced or too familiar for instance, so her general use of phrases aren't in the same language level
So I'd like to help her understand the difference and help her use it correctly
informal language, fluent language, advanced etc
there's not a lot that needs to be done, we just need to reactivate your French knowledge
but I think your base is sufficient to easily reach that goal
But yeah that's the goal I have with Lindie
I don't know how long it will take us, maybe a few months
2-3 months
Noooo, longer than that!!
No because you see, we meet to practice speaking every weekend
if not then we also text each other
Yeah yeah
Your mind will start to understand when we are together
you just need to switch to French and then it'll become normal
Don't worry
We use 3 methods to improve my French
First is, well, conversation
We see each other every weekend
and we only speak French
*talking about dictations in French*
What did we do today?
You wanna say it in French?
More and more I'm trying to speak to her normally, that's to say like I do to a French person
without being overly careful - I don't enunciate so much
yeah that's important
that's the most important. If you want to speak French normally with French people
so I'm not overly careful but of course
sometimes I explain terms to you in English if you don't understand
and more and more I'll explain to you in French
After that the 2nd method I'm improving my French with Ally's help is
It's dictation *correcting word gender*
You tell me what you wanna talk about and I make up the sentences
Oh yeah yeah that's true
Yeah so we don't follow anything, it's me who makes up 2 or 3 paragraphs
about a subject she'd like to talk about or want to know how to say in French
Last week we did a dictation
Feelings of isolation during lockdown
so you can see the subject we spoke about is very complicated
I can't find stuff like this in a textbook - which by the way I don't have a single French book
I have no French books at home
-Are you sure? You don't even have books on design? -Not. At. All.
- Are you serious? But then I need to buy for you! - No books
This cannot be. I must buy for you!
Today, we will talk about...
About languages!
We will talk about languages today
Ok let's start
"How to get over the intermedate plateau"
"in"
Wait wait
How to what?
How to get over the
the intermediate level in learning languages
*dictation continues*
At this stage - so it has an accent on the a - there you go
I don't know this word. Is it community? - Yes!
And this, can you explain it to me in English already?
Sure
I understand
I will find another word in French that means the same thing
First
Like this?
I understand. Thank you so much! - You're welcome!
And after that, the third method
I write about something that interests me every week
and she corrects me
with a red pen
Pink pen
And whilst correcting it I explainn
why one should say somethig like this rather etc
And what's this?
This flower here
Do you want to explain what this is?
Yes, so
It's so cute
This is when she makes a perfect phrase or paragraph
I make a flower like that - it's the flower that
Japanese teachers use on homework
for Japanese scholars
and the more elaborate the flower is,
- it means more - - hahah - no but it means the more
the more time the teacher took to make it
it means the more they want to show that they appreciate the work. You know in Japan the culture of appreciation
So it means the student did perfect work
it was a perfect French phrase
My method to learn French right now is JUST to speak to you
and doing dictationns
By the way I tried to do a lesson on italki with a French teacher
Yeah you told me
Personally I LOVE italki and I take so many lessons
for Spanish, Korean, Hungna...
Hungariann
and Vietamese
So I thought ok, I can do French conversational classes on italki
I tried to do JUST one class annd
that was it. I couldn't do more
It was so bad, he only spoke English
ok not ONLY Eng but a lot of English
Like a big percentage was English, yeah you told me
It was 30 minutes. 30 minutes are so precious, it's not even an hour
For 8 or 10 minutes he only spoke English
In italki lessons the things I prefer is when
teachers give me time to think
and remember words
before telling me the word
Sometimes if I go like "ahh I am looking for the word..."
and he says the word directly
it annoys me a bit
And he did that the whole time during the class
I still need a lot of time to think of the word myself
If he were more patiennt
it would have been better
Ok thanks, that's all for today
Thaks so much for watching
and, see you later
Wait. Thank you "for" watching
*cry*
and
see you
the
n..next?
next time!
See you next time!
I... I...
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All the time we do the... the....
the what? the...
Thanks - It's ok I'll hold it
No, in French
I will hold it
I will hold it for you
I'm a really strict teacher
Yeah
Can you explain some...
you have a... how to say
Go ahead, I will leave you to find the word