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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
Haha, that was from SNL a few weeks ago. The skit where they have two ex-prostitutes advertise things and they always say things wrong. Lots of people hate those sketches but I always find myself laughing.
I haven't tried it with French, but it's helped with my Spanish. There are free iOS and Android apps too.
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2nd vote for Duolingo.
Excellent program so far. It's the perfect mix of not sinking you with too much right away, leaving you frustrated and likely to quit, but also pushes you along at the same time.
Love how it keeps jumping around from typing out what you see in French to English, typing out what you see in English to French and then typing out what you hear to English. Keeps you thinking, instead of finding a rythmn and relying on repetition of the same style.
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The Calgary Public Library also provides free access to the Mango Language app for Apple or Android devices (http://www.calgarypubliclibrary.com/...re/mobile-apps). I haven't tried the French one so I'm not sure how good it is.
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I'm doing really well, and the program is awesome, but the one thing that's a little annoying is trying to understand the voice, sometimes. It's very grainy and tough to understand, when the whole purpose of the voice is for you to type out what you hear.
Also, "Le homme, la femme" incorrect, "L'homme, la femme" correct. Boo to that. L'homme should just be a short form, but apparently it's because of the vowel sound conflict. But I'm so poor at speaking it at this stage that everything I say in French sounds like a conflict.
Yeah, it's addictive, eh? The way they have it set-up just makes you want to keep going. I could see actually being half decent at french in a short period of time with this thing.
I can already fluently speak a bunch of sentences without looking at the program. All I knew before was a few words and then just bull****ed the verbs and all that.
Be careful with Duolingo, because it's tempting to keep going because they give you that progress chart, but it's good to go back and re-practice the early modules a bunch too.
Even practising the old ones gives you credit on your days streak.
Be careful with Duolingo, because it's tempting to keep going because they give you that progress chart, but it's good to go back and re-practice the early modules a bunch too.
Even practising the old ones gives you credit on your days streak.
Yeah, I've done each module two or three times so far, I picked up on that flaw right away. As soon as I was on the second one, I stopped and said "Wait, can you remember everything from the first one?". I couldn't remember it 100% so I went back.
Another thing about duolingo, which doesn't apply to you. For Spanish, it shows the Spanish flag, but is definitely an Americas Spanish. Using Babbel as my vocabulary helper gave me a pretty rude awakening for pronunciation and accent. Lets just pronounce half the consanants with the 'th' sound!
For french should be all France french which sounds so much better than Canadian french.
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Be careful with Duolingo, because it's tempting to keep going because they give you that progress chart, but it's good to go back and re-practice the early modules a bunch too.
Even practising the old ones gives you credit on your days streak.
The app recognizes this, and you'll see previously completed modules, gold in color, lose their strength over time and it encourages you to practice them again to maintain full strength
I tried using it for German and got fairly far, but ended up finally giving up as I just can't remember which of the three genders every noun I encounter is, which completely ruins entire lessons. Spanish is much more fun, as there at least there's general rules you can follow to figure out the gender of a noun (and only 2 genders to worry about)
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