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A burger meal is mostly vegetable and fruits, vegetable bread a thin slice of meat. served with vegetable potatoes (fries), vegetable hot sauce, tomatoes, and a vegetable drink filled with the vegetable corn syrup.

vegetables are good for you, they say.

malay/Indonesian may be easier to learn, same alphabet.

he is now sleeping among other sweaty guys.

He must love the smell of other sweaty guys.

why doesn't the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.

we.. all living in Amerika.. Oblast.... coka cola... Wonder bra... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

now they know where to look.

Thanks for saving cows, chicken, and pigs from extinction.

nice, we saved cow, chicken, and pigs from extinction.

That is a good site idea, thanks for sharing. One of the main time wasting problem I had was finding books at an appropriate level (readability) to read. Their book collection on Languageroadmap is small for french but there are some books there that matches my reading list too, good to see that.

Currently I am doing something similar inside Calibre using a plugin called Count Pages, it support adding readability score to each book and sort them accordingly. It can also display and sort by the number of words in a book.

The readability score is probably not accurate since it is probably designed for english books but I find it mostly accurate so far when I try to read the books to confirm the difficulty. I think some of the scores takes into account sentence length as well so maybe that's why it still works for language like french. Usually easy books use mostly short sentences.

Thks, yea, same hunger games trilogy. All 3 books have audio, too. 30hrs+ total. https://www.audible.co.uk/series/Hunger-Games-French-Audiobooks/B01LZE1F3A

Ok then, it seems like A2 is the important milestone i have to reach, I will just clear it officially and do the test before year ends.

Maybe in a couple of weeks, i will add a conversation only tutor. I think even short, 30 minutes of chit-chat each day will be good if budget allows. It will be like having a phone call with a friend.

You are right, practice is key. What ever learning method used initially (grammar, CI, vocab, shadowing, or a mixed approach and etc), in the end there will less and less useful things to learn and it become all about massive amount of practice and using language. Can't escape from practice. Massive practicing/using should be a method by itself. Get good at reading by practicing more reading native content, get good at speaking by practicing more speaking with native and etc.

I think sometime especially in the early days I was wasting time looking for the best or fastest method, it is probably just a form of procrastinating from doing massive practice.

This weekly thread is actually keeping me consistent and motivated, too lol. I will update my progress.

Finally completed "La Trilogie Des Jumeaux" a week ago. Recently found the next book to read, "Hunger Game" in french, this book has audio book version too so I don't have to rely on TTS audio. 300k+ words for whole series so should keep me busy.

Also started with a tutor this week, He said my reading comprehension is very good, I was understanding all the passage I had to read/speak. I was also able to understand everything he was saying in french too, so I think all that reading/listening to podcast/books does have some benefit.

Tutor started me on material meant for upper A1 since my other areas like writing, speaking and grammar are lacking. According to tutor all the important grammar stuff will done by A2 level. Hopefully by 4 months should be A2. Maybe just to confirm this, I will take a test like DELF A2.

I am also wondering if I should add another tutor, someone cheaper just for speaking practice, on normal everyday topics, 30mins 3-4x per week. I feel like one can progress in speaking very fast, mainly because compared to reading, speaking doesn't seems to require a lot of fancy vocabulary or tenses like books. Writers in books always like to use words and tenses that I would never use while speaking. The amount of knowledge require seems a lot less for speaking. it feels like it is mostly practice and having someone to correct you.