Montréal Chill
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La scène musicale montréalaise au premier plan. Photo: Geoffroy
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Playlist Length
0 days, 5 hours, 38 minutes
Playlist Followers
129395
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Discovered On, Reddit
Playlist Last Updated
May 17, 2024
Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Somewhat Popular
Style
Varied
Average Release Decade
2020s
Main Genre:
Mixed
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> I don’t think there’s a human on earth who can handle the kind of delayed gratification that is language learning, not without some rewards through the middle. What are those rewards for you? For me, this is split up into two major categories. First, things that are above my level but are very strongly motivating. For you, this is French literature. For me, this has generally been novels that I really wanted to read, or nonfiction that I really wanted to read - for example, interviews with artists I admired. I have never been able to plow through a whole novel that was significantly above my level, but reading two or three or four pages has at times been really motivating, and around the A2-B1 level... I think it's really useful to have something to spice up your learning and give you a break from diligently plodding along. At your level, it is probably not worth it for you to try to struggle through a whole novel by Balzac or Zola. But what about a poem by Baudelaire or Rimbaud or Apollinaire? [Ma Boheme](https://jhouis.com/2021/04/26/my-bohemia-by-arthur-rimbaud-trans-by-jacques-houis/) is a bit difficult because of the figurative language but also just *fun* to read out loud. (I am, incidentally, very fond of [this short poem by Jacque Prévert](https://www.poeticous.com/jacques-prevert/quartier-libre-j-ai-mis-mon-kepi-dans-la-cage), which was in one of my high school French textbooks.) Second category, things that are easier and just for fun. For me, that's music, at lower levels. (At higher levels, it's mostly pop fiction.) I think it might be worth it to spend some time seeking out French music that you might be interested in - there's a lot of good stuff on this [Montreal chill playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX1F430ihQKsD), but also, there's a lot of great hip-hop coming out of France, and there are dozens of genres and subgenres of music that have thriving Francophone scenes. I used to have a ton of Spanish music on my iPod and even when I wasn't actively studying Spanish, it was useful for me to have those little bits of language in my head - *Y yo estoy aquí, borracho y loco, y mi corazón idiota siempre brillará* \- I probably haven't heard that song in ten years but I can still sing the chorus. Last thing is - Balzac and Flaubert and Zola don't care about how badly you roll your "r"s! One of the great things about language learning as a literature nerd is that reading is probably *the most accessible part of a language*, more than listening or speaking or writing, so... take advantage of that and don't worry that you need to be able to speak at a certain level before you can get something out of reading literature.
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languagelearning
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Fillanzea
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12/21/22 15:01
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