I can absolutely say that the summer has made me a bit rusty. I forgot many of the verbs and how to conjugate them. Monsieur was definitely not happy with my class. This was an intermediate class and every time we looked at him, I'm pretty sure we had blank faces....well, I had it. I'm sure you can understand his frustration with us.
With that being said, I had to sit myself down in my room and study. But I will be honest with you all, that did not happen until I had to study for my test. My first French test was today and from what I learned studying for this test is that you should definitely study something from your language everyday, especially if you want to get even remotely fluent.
Cramming is not a good way for you to become fluent. Sure, you may know the words for the test, but you may not be retaining them for future use. But in my cramming, I did have a stroke of genius. I created a worksheet for each tense.
Here is how it looks. I designed it through Microsoft Excel and printed out one sheet for each tense.
Here's how it looks filled out. This one is for the present tense. It definitely made it easier for me to see how one -er verb can be spelled from another -er verb, especially if that -er verb is irregular. Plus because all the verbs that I needed to study for were there, I didn't have to worry about forgetting one.
This really helped me in organizing the different tenses in my head. I think that is what my problem was last year, plus I wasn't really organized for that class; which I should have been. If I was, it could have saved me a lot of stress, especially since French was brand new to me at that time and the verbs just looked the same to me.
But the real verdict will be when I get my test back.
If you decide to use this, let me know. It would love to see if this is actually ideal to study a language. I can improve my studying habits if I get feedback from you guys!
That is all for now. Until next time.
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