Let's face it. most of us here in the non-French-speaking countries ( England, Nepal, Chile etc) aren't going to meet a whole lot of French speakers on our daily walk to somewhere and back. But there are things you can do to help yourself ... in essence, you need to find lots of ways whereby you speak French ..... not reading it, not thinking it, not colouring it in, but actually talking with that mouthy thing in the lower centre of your face. It's the bit with all the teeth, a long twisty tongue and lots of other things further on down.
This is going to be a big theme for me here .... identifying the component problems, and offering ways to sort them out. Eventually. In the fullness of time. Sooner or later.
Here is the first startling idea ... my idea ( as far as I know). It's simple really.
If you trundle along the street talking to yourself, people, other people, will think you are
Simples ... we talk into our mobile phone, that's what we do.
You can talk till the cows come home with a mobile held up to your ear and nobody will mind at all. In fact they will be highly impressed that you are such a powerful and influential hub-type person.
It doesn't even need to be on. Bonus.
Seriously, I have done this a lot ... what's more, you can do it entirely at your own level. If all you know is stuff like non , moi ?, oui, pourquoi ? ... that's fine. mad . Even if it's in whatever level of French you can cobble together. It's true, it's unfortunate and probably unfair, but that's how it goes. How, readers, how do we get round this quirk of human nature? And if you are pretty good, you can prattle away happily for ages. If you are really lucky, an actual French speaker might overhear you and then you can talk French even more. Even luckier, you might hit it off, get married etc and that will be a real boost to your chances of eventually speaking a bit of French now and then.
But now, as you lie stunned by the sheer ingenuity of this crafty scheme, why not enjoy the wonderful Éléphant with Collective Mon Amour .. truly brilliant ..
Des cages autour de moi,
Allongé pour mieux voir,
On se sens mieux dans le noir,
J'ai pas de compte à rendre,
Ces gens qui passent, commandent,
Je vais peindre ta vie en blonde,
La lumière m'apparaît trop sombre,
Je pense à l'hiver sans toi,qu'en est-il mon amour ?
Sentir en glisser les sorts... ah ah.
[Refrain] X2
Je sais que c'est toi, c'est pas ton ombre, Ouh ouh ouh...
Tu as hâte de vivre un autre monde,
Crois en toi, qui n'es pas si sombre.
De ma fenêtre je vois,
Tes yeux bleus posés là,
Te penser dans le noir,
Me réveiller autre part,
Frôler les bouts du monde,
Voir passer les gens qui s'effondrent,
Je vais peindre ma vie en blonde,
La lumière m'apparaît trop sombre,
Je pense à l'hiver sans toi, qu'en est-il mon amour ?
Sentir en glisser les sorts... ah ah
[Refrain] jusqu'à la fin
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Well readers, these things you are about to see are the "answers" to questions that I'm going to set you a long time in the future..... wooo !! I'm not sure if they're going to be in the right order though .....