Heya, I'm looking for a French game forum (no current stuff, more like this one here, not nercessarily dev-centered as well) because I want to improve my language skills (they're rather poor by now and its one of my 3 most important subjects for graduation ._.) :nod: Any suggestions? It should be rather frequented (not just 5 posts a day) and a sega-collectors forum would be perfect. cheers, ave
There are several PC Engine forums in French, funnily enough I'm French but I mostly consult English forums ... Which area of your French are you trying to improve?
PC-Engine is also fine, although I'm not too much into this subject (collection-wise). What area... well general communication skills I'd say? I'm just too weak in my opinion regarding vocabulary and expressiveness.
There's a huge and interesting community, mostly over hacking though, at GX-mod : http://www.gueux-forum.net
In terms of expressiveness what you need to learn in priority to master French is this: :shrug: for waft... or pffuu... a very important mean to describe the general enthusiasm of our people!!! It's especially interesting to use it when you don't understand and/or don't care about what people tell you. But more seriously, reading forum may help but as people are less and less concerned with writing the language correctly, a good old french book will teach you way more and movies too!!! In terms of PC Engine forum my favorite is this one http://forum.necstasy.net/ several members of this board are there too.
@haruglory Thanks, but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to be participate a lot as I'm not into technological stuff (modding, dev) at all. Also, I'm not a big fan of 3D games, rather 2D and collecting so I'd prefer a rather retro console specialized forum @sabre Thanks for the Necstasy link! I already registered myself Still seems pretty difficult for me but I think I'm gonna get it going. I already watch films on french (film noir/nouvelle vague/avantgarde brought us some masterpieces which I admire a lot) and also read books (for school only though). It got better with books, but films are still almost impossible to understand for me without subtitles. Really WAY harder to understand than English. The subtitles also show maybe just 1 third of the text that is spoken by the actors... >_<
Two films I've been able to understand are The Return of Martin Guerre (Depardieu version) and Diva. Diva's a bit above me but I know enough enough to know the sub titles on that one aren't giving you the whole story.
I just saw "A Bout de Souffle" on French with German subs. It was surprisingly quite understandable, perhaps because of Jean Sebergs the american accent, I don't know ^^" Its fact though, that authentic french speakers sound way cooler than all of the French teachers I ever had at school. Most of them talk in an, err, arrogant and often over-emphasized way. French classes make you think all French speakers must be like patronizing assholes with sticks up their asses at the same time - complete opposite of Jean Paul Belmondos or Anna Karinas cool/seducing french that shows how the language could express itself in a better way. Maybe thats why I never had too much sympathy left for France in general untill I discovered French films a few years ago.
That's totally wrong : I removed mine a few years ago, and it allows me sit on a chair without problem! :dance: Anyway, good luck ! A lot of people don't write accurate french, so don't try to write the same thing, and always have a dictionnary nearby.
http://www.grospixels.com is what you're looking for. It's a big retrogaming website and there's a forum. There's some current systems news but it's mostly early console or computer games related.
Thanks a lot, thats indeed exactly what I was looking for! @djelaba ^^ But it helps anyway, especially in conversations and even exams. We don't have to write 100% accurate, but the will to do so is what counts (so far)