I have studied a few languages and I studied French starting in the 8th grade. I remember it being a pain in the rear. The grammar is distinctly unfun at times and having to agree in gender and number with everything?! What??
I think that languages that have case systems (without a psychotic slew of pronouns) are less of a headache. Perhaps French is just tricky for you. I picked up Japanese a lot more quickly and had studied it for half as long.
Some modern fiction is good for practice (not quite as scary as Proust or Balzac). I thin Amazon has that sort of thing. I like to listen to immersive audio things. I don't know if that works for you, but it conveys the structure to me really well, hearing it, like wandering around listening to it throughout the day. Even if I do not get it all, just being surrounded by it.
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Date: 2/5/15 07:23 pm (UTC)I think that languages that have case systems (without a psychotic slew of pronouns) are less of a headache.
Perhaps French is just tricky for you. I picked up Japanese a lot more quickly and had studied it for half as long.
Some modern fiction is good for practice (not quite as scary as Proust or Balzac). I thin Amazon has that sort of thing. I like to listen to immersive audio things. I don't know if that works for you, but it conveys the structure to me really well, hearing it, like wandering around listening to it throughout the day. Even if I do not get it all, just being surrounded by it.
French is tough.