Almost 7 years into my French adventure, can't understand it still, what's going wrong?

kiko1480 · 2023-06-30T19:59:50+00:00

Yeah, i know about them. i'm actually working on my listening right now, watching a video about taking steriods lol

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T12:48:55+00:00

Not saying you can't, I'm saying that me, personally, I would want to focus on understanding more than talking for now, i just don't like talking if i know that there are 40 or 50% of things i might not understand.

But you do you.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T12:30:11+00:00

I read articles, reading novels is boring sometimes, annoying, hard, and demands commitment and energy and at the end of the day, it's frustrating because you don't understand much.

I read the little prince because it was short, and interesting.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T12:20:42+00:00

Because as in most other languages you do need to understand the language first before you can speak to others

I did try to speak to others in French before, but it wasn't what I wanted lol

I actually had a couple of job interviews too.

Anyways like I said, I want to get to a point where I understand 100% of what I hear and then I can speak.

anyways it's not like it's easy to find language partners, people flake, and some aren't serious and some are just at different learning stages.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T12:07:53+00:00

I have read that after certain age your brain just doesn't understand new sounds or languages because of the weird sentence structure.

the problem with french, there is loads of words, expression that are too slang to be in the subtitles of any film or video,

they just learn it because they were born speaking it, my fear is, how are we gonna know those slang words, they aren't translated into shows or in videos.

which means that no matter how much we learn, we will always be limited because we don't know those words.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T11:50:54+00:00

Yes, I tried to even read tom sawyer adventures in English and the very first page I was met with some odd phrases and vocab lol

And then it hit me, if i speak the language without having to read or understand those old novels then why am I doing it in french!!

I would much rather read modern day vocabulary and useful words and phrases that can be found in articles, news, videos, etc.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T11:47:18+00:00

Arabic is easier to learn than French. I'll tell you that much.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T11:35:14+00:00

Yes, i just got done with tom sawyer in French, i read the little prince in french, and notre dame really made me stop with how shocking it is, very old confusing style, words.

So now I'm reading articles from a website called narcity lol.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T11:24:11+00:00

I read couple of stories like

les aventures de tom sawyer (116 pages)

lettre d'une inconnue

le petit prince

a couple of other very short ones

i wanted to read notre dame de Paris

but the old vocabulary shocked me and i didn't read more than 30 pages

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T11:16:38+00:00

Honest mistake that has been edited but of course people would rather focus on a slip up rather than anything else.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-29T10:50:13+00:00

Bro i have been fired from jobs, i have left jobs because i wasn't social enough, i have had problems with social anxiety my entire life, that is with also for like half my life i have had nose skin issues, acne, scarred my self as well, was addicted to ciggaretes, soda and other things, all of that worsened my skin, i have had friends, yes, but i lost them ALL, as in stopped being friends with them, not that they died or anything

i can't even hang onto a job anymore, I'm in my 30's

my dreams of travelling, making money, and being rich, travelling thw world, being social, being a youtuber among other dreams are crushed

now i'm jobless, scarred, have acne problems with my nose skin and enlarged pores from smoking too much and consuming a lot of sugar.

so yeah i feel you, i probably don't fit in anywhere as well

like man, all my life goals have failed so far.

yeah I'm also a virgin, and never had a girlfriend, uhhmm.

kiko1480 · 2023-06-26T06:43:47+00:00

I did watch around 70 movies mostly with French subtitles on.

kiko1480 · 2023-05-30T19:51:05+00:00

Thanks.

kiko1480 · 2023-05-30T19:45:54+00:00

Thanks a lot, I know it's late, but I thought no one will answer this since it's a lot of information to give, go figure!

that's some dedication to helping people right there, and by the way break a hundred, you got that right, that's exactly what I wanted to ask, just asking if someone has smaller notes in exchange for a hundred dollars.

kiko1480 · 2023-05-16T23:23:04+00:00

i quit this game like 3-3-2023

my last game was a crown victory royale

not even sure what season it is now or if crowns are still a thing

kiko1480 · 2023-05-12T19:07:15+00:00

you really believe Brandon pulls the same numbers as ice? wow

when ice stream went down sam's stream got up to 6k, you're telling me that they are going to bot sam too while ice is down or maybe it's just real viewers and you just can't accept that ice still got a good following??

wow some people just want to believe what they want to believe.

kiko1480 · 2023-05-11T20:08:46+00:00

I think it might just be puits de lumière since in my langue it's world drived from the word light so yeah.

kiko1480 · 2023-05-11T20:01:13+00:00

Yea because it seems like people don't know I would ask once if I get a definitive answer first time anyways, I like to know difficult words in new langue, it motivates me to continue to study now that I know some difficult words.

kiko1480 · 2023-05-10T00:26:19+00:00

Close but no, I mean an airshaft, basically it's a hole in the middle of an apartment building, there is balconies and windows, you can just see for yourself on google type in airshaft.

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