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i read alot in french, but haven't had much opportunity to speak or write for a while--so it's always a bit dicey when i'm put in a position of speaking again for a while. so i'd follow guyy's advice about emphasizing active ways of interacting with the language.
i read le monde diplo monthly when it comes out, between times via the various on-line things they have---le monde and libération most days---and i've rigged things up in my day gig that i spent at least part of every day cruising around various journals. but philo and other academic-ish things use a restricted vocabulary. novels are more specific and can be difficult--i still remember hitting the farmhouse wall in madame bovary and being forced to look over a collection of tack and 19th century farm implements and having to look up almost every noun...which i suppose happens.
read alot.
radio is good too--there's lots of stream--radio libértaire is a parisian anarchist station that talks talks talks and can be interesting to drop into.
i would expect it's easy enough to find folk who are maybe french and working on english via the alliance française or some such. that'd be good. cheap too.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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