#learnigfrench

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Words I learned from beginner's short stories in French :

Entourée = surounded

Envie = to feel like doing something

Morceau = piece/bit of pan/fromage

Bois = wood

Bassines =bowl

Ajouter = to add

Les briques = the bricks

Travers : across/through

Cour : yard

Rappelait = to remind/ be reminded of

Sèjour = stay(noun)

Pendant =during

Alors = so/then(indicates a consequence)

Chemin = path/way

Tournesols = sunflowers

Ensuite = later /afterwards/then

Pêcheur =Fishman

Frapper = to knock

Le Champ = the field

Traverser = to cross

La côte = the coast

Au loin = in the distance

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VERBS I LEARNED THIS WEEK :

Commander : to order something or to order somebody around ,give the orders :

J'ai commandé une robe par catalogue

I ordered a dress from a catalogue

Elle a commandé une pizza

She ordered a pizza

Le professor a commandé à l'élève de se taire

The teacher ordered the student to be quiet

Lever : to raise ,hold something up ,put something in the air ,to get up

Elle a levé la main

She raised her hand

Elle a levé la main pour répondre à la question

She raised her hand to answer the question

Je me lève à sept heurs pour aller travailler

I get up at seven to go to work

Avoir besoin de : to need( have need of )

J'ai besoin d'une plus grande taille

I need a bigger size

Elle a besoin d'une nouvelle veste

She needs a new jacket

Elle a besoin de sucre

She needs sugar

Prendre : to take, to pick up ,to take something from someone, to take the train, bus ,to have a meal etc (prendre is a really useful verb )

Je prends mon petit déjeuner à huit heures tout les jour

I have my breakfast at eight am everyday

Il m'a pris mon stylo

He took my pen

J'ai pris le livre chez moi

I took the book to my place

Elle doit prendre le train à neuf heures

She has to take the bus at 9am

J'ai pris un taxi hier

I took a taxi yesterday

Il a pris le verre qui était sur la table

He picked up(took) the glass that was on the table .

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Realistic Language goals:

Last year I would set language goals that were too ambitious and in the end I couldn't achieve many of them, I kind of bit off more than I could chew, so this year I'm trying to set up more realistic and possible goals in order to do that I'm currently using a method called the daily high light . The daily highlight is the only thing you need to get done that day no matter what so, I set up a daily highlight for the week and some optional goals that I don't have to get done if I don't want to. I also try to do something related to language learning everyday even if it is just watching a kid's show in my target language

My language goals :

French:

Try to watch something in French every day so I keep exposing myself to the language

Learn a vocabulary topic every day

Review my anki cards

Master the basic grammar

English :

Record myself every day(most important goal)

Read aloud

Once a week write a small paragraph about movies or any topic I like so that I can improve my writing and grammar .

Read ten books in a month ( I think that's the most ambitious goal so far )

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06/30 days of language learning.

This is a summary of what i did these past few days, let's start with French, I read a short story about the beaches of France ,did my anki cards ,learned how to use lequel,lequelle,lequels ,watched a lot of children's cartoons in French ,found out how to use ce,cet,ces and cette. In English I recorded myself and made a paragraph with piled up vocabulary, read a wikipedia's article aloud .

Things I wanna do next week :

Get started on the imparfait

Write a daily paragraph

Improve my grammar in English

Study the verbs which use "être " as an auxiliary verb.