Quelques-fois je pense en français (une français très pauvre), et si quelqu'un parler a moi en anglais, pour un moment je ne comprends pas son parole. Pour mon travaille, je doit comunnique avec un compagnie au Brossard et ils sont bilinguel, mais je jamais parle en français parce-que je ne comprend pas le français orale. Je peux regarde télévision en français (especiallment RDI) et comprend. J'aime l'emission "3600 Secondes D'Extase", especiallement le segments qui moquer Dora the Explorer.
I can use a very broken French that mostly involves replacing English words with French words and leaving the grammar alone as I have very little practice at that. Our curriculum treats the French language more like a form of algebra with words than an actual language that people can use to communicate ideas and such. When reading French, I can usually just read it and understand what things mean without translating until I get to a less common word, and either have to figure it out with my mental list of French words or find an online translator.
French music helps to understand words. Learning what the words translate to in English and following along with the French is a good way to hammer in those words. I learned "doit" this way, and "piqure", "pauvre", "jamais". Karkwa is my favourite Francophone group.
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A few people mentioned high school. French was always one of my favourite subjects in school and I always did well in it; for a few years, it was actually my best subject. Unfortunately, in high school, they discouraged me from taking French because it wouldn't count for my diploma (I already had enough subjects in that particular group) and because "I wouldn't need it". Ironically, my French skills have gotten better since high school. I started learning French in grade 1, a French teacher came to the class and taught us very basic things like numbers and words for common objects and basic grammar. Took it until grade 9. I'm better at pronouncing the French R (like in rouge or coeur) than the English R (like in robot or soar), unless I really concentrate on what I am saying, but then I over-enunciate and people find that weird.