Update: Here is a video of my progress towards the end of my challenge.
Salut de Paris!
Today marks the 25th day of my “50 days of French” challenge. This halfway update will be split into three parts, what I’ve done so far, how I’ve used my French, and what I intend to do for the remainder of the challenge.
So far…
In my previous post outlining my challenge, I said I was going to focus on a few key thematic areas for my study, including transportation, shopping, food. I decided I was going to set milestones for completion (i.e., I can say I’ve learned “food” sufficiently when I can order a meal completely in French). When I said this, I thought that meant I would go through section by section and memorize the relevant words and phrases – but that didn’t happen, for two reasons.
One is that it was too compartmentalized, and it felt like a chore to memorize all these different phrases. If there’s anything I know about language learning, it’s that it has to be fun and interesting, otherwise it gets really boring. I quickly switched out of this because this method….