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I'm in France for 6 weeks and want to improve my French - what do you recommend??

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loveyouradvice · 11/09/2024 15:07

Just that really ...

We've six weeks in a gorgeous house in Provence, part holiday part work and at the same time we'd like to improve our French just a bit every day. I've been ill so we aren't going to be very sociable - otherwise we'd go to cafes and chat to people!

We're at French GCSE + level but very rusty!

We're thinking:

  • go to the local cinema and watch things in French on Netflix
  • speak as much French as we can when we go to shops, etc
  • read a novel or the newspaper in French
  • and ideally do a DuoLingo type language course a few minutes each day - which do you find best?

All other ideas very welcome - but especially a recommendation for a spoken language course online, ideally free or not too expensive

Thanks!

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loveyouradvice · 16/02/2025 23:06

Sadly our home is max 4 people but if you'd like, I'll send you a link for our neighbours, which we've often used as a bigger group. Gorgeous place - fab swimming pool, tennis and boule court... BUT it is a drive into town rather than a walk, though just 8 minutes.

Watching films in French with subtitles on Netflix - and even English series with French subtitles - is proving great for my colloquial French. I've an exercise book full of phrases that I've collected.... and probably refer to less often than would really help!

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MrsMalaga · 16/02/2025 23:46

That wd be great to get the link - thank you 😀

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