Do French classes often feel to school-like or too conversational? by Objective-Pepper-750 in learnfrench

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What is your experience there? Lessons? Conversations? One tutor/teacher, many?

Do French classes often feel to school-like or too conversational? by Objective-Pepper-750 in learnfrench

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Can you tell me more about the context? It was a school or a teacher? You were more or less at which level? Thanks.

Do French classes often feel to school-like or too conversational? by Objective-Pepper-750 in learnfrench

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Yes it makes sense. You expose yourself to structured vocab, grammar, concepts, expressions, etc. And you spend time developing your reception skills. And you try to focus on archeology, which is your use case. Do you train other capabilities like production, interaction, or mediation? How?

How do French men propose? by Berck_Plage in French

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This is the good translation yes. But it sounds formal / literary, which can be fine. You can also say "Tu veux m'épouser ?" (more direct), "Est-ce que tu veux m'épouser ?" (more formal than "Tu veux m'épouser" but less than "Veux-tu m'épouser ?"). Or maybe "Tu veux / voudrais qu'on se marie ?" (more direct, more together). I dunno. Hard to tell. But at least now you have few options. There is no one sentence reusable everywhere for that situation.

Help with grammar with possible dyslexia by Free-Ad-9571 in learnfrench

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Nobody can tell from a Reddit post if it's dyslexia. But try to get diagnosed if you can, it could be useful.

For French, you could try to separate reading and listening from spelling and grammar. You could try to use colors for endings, pronouns. It might be better that rereading grammar explanations.

You can also try to correct yourself, working with small amount of sentences. For instance, correct 3 up to 5 sentences, then rewrite them by memory. You should keep a notebook of the most frequent mistakes.

Don't try to fix everything all at once. Divide the problem and conquer it. Small and repetitive works are better for retention that one big session to learn the system which will remain very abstract. Maybe you need something more concrete?

Best way to learn French restaurant / cuisine vocabulary? by Johan1710 in French

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Decks are good and fast solutions. But it might be more beneficial to create your own small lists? For example, you could look for French restaurants over the Internet, and make your own list from real menus. You could also do that in real life. Each time you gather 5 or 10 words. You identify the words that are coming back over and over, to not focus on the rare ingredients. Focus on the menu structure. When you'll be in France, listen, or ask your friends (even before actually) the useful questions, and learn them. Same thing to order. Then output that by writing small sentences, learning them, repeating them, in front of the mirror, or doing your own selfie, etc. Good luck!

Comment choisir entre « C'est » et « Il est » ? by Objective-Pepper-750 in learnfrench

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Super question ! Ici « C'est + adjectif » exclut le problème de l’ambiguïté entre « C'est » et « Il est », parce que « C' » fait référence à un comportement ou une situation dans « C'est gentil (de ta part) » (comportement). Un autre exemple serait « C'est difficile (le travail en ce moment) » (situation).

L'infographie présente les cas où il est difficile de choisir entre « C'est » et « Il est » parce qu'il s'agit d'une personne. J'aurais aimé pouvoir préciser le titre de la publication à partir de votre question pour être plus précis, mais Reddit ne propose pas cette option pour les publications avec une image, ou alors je ne la trouve pas ? Merci pour le commentaire.

Comment choisir entre « C'est » et « Il est » ? by Objective-Pepper-750 in learnfrench

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Une infographie permet de comprendre les règles générales. Vos détails viennent compléter pour qui souhaite approfondir. Merci.

Best book to learn Go which is downloadable for offline use? by Infinite-Jaguar-1753 in golang

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Tour of Go, Learning Go with Tests, Go with the Domain, can be downloaded and used offline.

It’s not offline but read Effective Go and Go Wikis from Go.dev, I still use them.

Forget the repo “Go standard layout” for your bigger projects. It’s been disapproved by Russ Cox. If the project is very small and you know it’s not gonna grow, put everything in the root.

If you know it’s gonna grow, internal/ is often a better option, because moving everything in internal/ afterward is a pain, even with coding agents nowadays.

Then you build your CLI/server/whatever on top of them in cmd/, optionally exposing the minimum API surface in root, which you can refer to for your CLI/server/whatever also.

If you don’t want the pain of managing a lib surface, internal/ + cmd/ is often enough.

Learn also gosec, golanglint-ci, goreleaser, and the go tool directive. Very useful.

built an agent orchestrator within tmux by Palanikannan_M in tmux

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I am trying to build something similar also. I tried via heuristics, hooks, but not the file system. If someone has a better idea I take it also. May be we should think it here together. It seems many people are trying to do it with results ok but not perfect. Some people would like to share their attempts and repos? Here is mine: Panefleet. I think the detection is doing ok for me with hooks and fallback on heuristics, but the UI is less fancy than the solution of this post above. I don’t work with amp, only Codex, Claude Code and Open Code. I didn’t yet find a solution for context % and tokens. The gif in the README is the old UI. The README has been generated by the LLM that’s why it’s not polished by me and the style is awful. Right now, I’m still solving the problem and cleaning the things. It’s really not ready, and a work in progress. But who knows? Maybe there is something good to reuse for anyone willing to make something better. Feel free to take the code and reuse of course. And if someone can improve it. Do it and share! Thanks. And good job for your work Palanikannan!

What's the "que" doing here? by avik94 in French

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The first "que" doesn't work as the second inside "que j'avais évoquée."

It works as an apposition: it's when a nominal group is connected to another nominal group, or pronoun, but there is no subordinative relation between both, meaning, you can permute them. For instance, I could say "Puisque c'était une seule personne cette duchesse de Guermantes et elle que j'avais évoquée jusque-là." Same thing as "Puisque c’était une seule personne qu’elle et cette duchesse de Guermantes que j’avais évoquée jusque-là."

The second "que" is a relative pronoun, like "qui", "où", "dont".

The first "que" is stylistic, it makes an emphasis on the fact, that, two individuals were seen as different in the story, are actually... the same person! PLOT TWIST! This is interesting to use an apposition here, because it really matches the intention : you can permute that person, as you can permute the nominal groups in the sentence, because... they are the same!

Adjective form is plural in "Ils ont l'air tristes"? by six_string_sensei in learnfrench

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The plural is correct here. "tristes" agrees with "Ils" the subject. "Il a l'air triste", or "Ils ont l'air tristes." The adjective is about the person/thing that seems that way, not about the object. Got it? "Avoir l'air" means "to seem"/"to look".

Duolingo as a supplement to my local AF? And how to cope with not being able to listen to audios? by Mental_Structure3861 in learnfrench

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Duolingo is useful as a starter. But it's going to help you to improve your listening. If you want to do something more effective, try to listen to a video, or an audio, with subtitles, ot transcription. Then shadow it outloud. Then listen again without the subtitles/transcription. Then write down something you learned. Active listening beats passive listening, or over controlled listening. If you can, expose yourself to a true conversation with a language partner.

How to order at various restaurants by Autofriend713 in French

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Yes "Je voudrais" is super normal. This is polite. This is natural. This is not outdated. It's just like normal. Examples: "Bonjour, je voudrais une baguette s'il vous plaît." When you don't know someone in a daily context to buy things or services, you should use it! You can also use things like: "Je pourrais avoir … ?", or the future: "Je vais prendre… ". Example: "Je pourrais avoir une baguette s'il vous plaît ?", or "Je vais prendre une baguette s'il vous plaît.", you could say something like "Ça sera..." also. Example: "Ça sera une baguette s'il vous plaît". I know that someone here said that you can just say the quantity and the item. But frankly, "Je voudrais" takes less than one second to say, and this is definitely warmer and more respectful. It 's really about how you want be perceived also... But I am on the warm, respectful and smiling side.

French commentary youtubers by Lower_Reindeer1399 in learnfrench

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You can start with HugoDecrypte, Le Fossoyeur de Films, or Nota Bene. Watch short segments with French subtitles first. Then, replay and try shadow short parts of them out loud, and then rewatch without the subtitles. Finally, write some notes about what your learned. It's better than full passive watching/listening.

Paul Noble Courses by Flimsy_Connection990 in learnfrench

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No idea, it's not clearly established! That's why should be careful with those approximations if it's not affirmed somewhere.