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 I am teaching myself French. I'm using Duolingo - "Of course you are." - As well as reading through a French workbook, using HelloTalk, watching tons of French YouTube videos, listening to French true crime podcasts, and a just started an Open University course in French.

In spite of nearly two years of this I still can't form basic sentences on my own. I can read and parrot it fairly well and sometimes understand spoken French, but I can't come up with the simplest sentences ever without cheating.

So I realized I need to start journaling in French.


So here we are.

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