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My french has grown increasingly rusty over the years. Not that it was ever super great, but time dulls even that. Every so often I find myself craving the beautiful language again, and try to remember how to say certain things, or figure out how one would say a thing. I heard a rather awesome suggestion t'other day, or rather read it. It was to read a well-known book, in their case it was Harry Potter, in the language, as simply reading in a language can really help one get a feel for it. And this is precisely what I started to do.
Well, I downloaded it and read maybe a paragraph before work actually required me to do something. I haven't been back to it yet, but I'm looking forward to giving it a try. I once attempted to start reading The Three Musketeers in french, but that book is fairly dense as it is, and who knows how many old colloquialisms and such it might have. Harry Potter, however, is written for a more modern (read illiterate) and younger audience, so should be a bit more accessible. Not to mention I've read the first one easily a half dozen times over the years. I just know that my many years of reading growing up granted me an innate feel of how our language works in a way that my substandard and brief school lessons on grammar ever could. I cannot often tell the subtleties of parts of speech enough to name what each is, but I absolutely know where each word goes and how it all fits together. I would love to have a similar grasp of french, and any step I can in that direction would be lovely.
Now if you'll excuse me, I shall go and listen to my favorite french singer, Emile Simon, with her beautiful and haunting music.
Well, I downloaded it and read maybe a paragraph before work actually required me to do something. I haven't been back to it yet, but I'm looking forward to giving it a try. I once attempted to start reading The Three Musketeers in french, but that book is fairly dense as it is, and who knows how many old colloquialisms and such it might have. Harry Potter, however, is written for a more modern (read illiterate) and younger audience, so should be a bit more accessible. Not to mention I've read the first one easily a half dozen times over the years. I just know that my many years of reading growing up granted me an innate feel of how our language works in a way that my substandard and brief school lessons on grammar ever could. I cannot often tell the subtleties of parts of speech enough to name what each is, but I absolutely know where each word goes and how it all fits together. I would love to have a similar grasp of french, and any step I can in that direction would be lovely.
Now if you'll excuse me, I shall go and listen to my favorite french singer, Emile Simon, with her beautiful and haunting music.
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Date: 2018-10-26 09:35 pm (UTC)From:Same thing I experience.