Errr, you can rather say, that's what's left in skills from 4 years of French lessons in school. Without a dictionary, nothing works. But even though, I'm stunned myself how much I remember if I only got means to help myself. Like basic word order in the sentence, conjugation (often I need to read it to remember it, but I remember or recognize if a verb works irregularly!), adjusting of adjectives to the nouns they refer to, forming the past time form - is something done with être or avoir? -, I even see how I can do this with words I actually don't know. And, my brain wasn't like the brightest candle with French back then - only I can say my French teacher has done a good job, she was one of those teachers that knew what they were talking about, and that got stuck.
By that results I'm getting these days how much I'd be able to do with that language, I'd guess the only thing I was missing for that is somebody to practice. So that skill and vocabulary are more present or become stuck.
Has taken me for long to find a topic where I can practice it through writing an entry - think I'm a little late for Valentine's Day (that one it had suited very well, as because of the topic and also that talking of people of French being "the language of love" or whatever they say), but it seemed to me like also not optimal to just save it up for next year. Next year I'd be surely going to say "gosh, you've made mistakes there, there and there!", and this is not like where I want to end up at.
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Date: 24 February 2017 08:15 pm (UTC)But even though, I'm stunned myself how much I remember if I only got means to help myself. Like basic word order in the sentence, conjugation (often I need to read it to remember it, but I remember or recognize if a verb works irregularly!), adjusting of adjectives to the nouns they refer to, forming the past time form - is something done with être or avoir? -, I even see how I can do this with words I actually don't know.
And, my brain wasn't like the brightest candle with French back then - only I can say my French teacher has done a good job, she was one of those teachers that knew what they were talking about, and that got stuck.
By that results I'm getting these days how much I'd be able to do with that language, I'd guess the only thing I was missing for that is somebody to practice. So that skill and vocabulary are more present or become stuck.
Has taken me for long to find a topic where I can practice it through writing an entry - think I'm a little late for Valentine's Day (that one it had suited very well, as because of the topic and also that talking of people of French being "the language of love" or whatever they say), but it seemed to me like also not optimal to just save it up for next year. Next year I'd be surely going to say "gosh, you've made mistakes there, there and there!", and this is not like where I want to end up at.