>>24901Just use pompous English words and pronounce them lazily, that will be close enough.
> Anyway, I'm more interested how other Ernsts feel about learning new words.Well, it's been a month since I started to focus on vocabulary instead of grammar so it's maybe early to say. But I tried this:
1) Read and translate lyrics of French songs. They're cool because you can listen to them many times in background and thus memorize words and phrases from them. Also because it's always curious "so THAT's what this song was about".
2) Peppa, Caillou. On the one hand, they're easy, so it's enjoyable at first, "wow, I fully understand French speech", but also boring, therefore soon you start to listen inattentively. It's always better to watch/read harder but more interesting content.
3) French thread on 4chan's /int/ - boring, uninformative.
4) Boomer jokes on
https://www.birdsdessines.fr/ . Not funny, but short. I just read and translate "top-3 for yesterday" every day.
5) Found online course about French revolution (
https://stepik.org/course/131993/syllabus ). It has tests, which motivates you to think and pay attention.
6) Books with parallel translations. Questionable idea, gives you no motivation to try to understand by yourself because translation is just on the next page. On the other hand, it's interesting what are these books like in original.
At this point my method is to fulfill some plan each day (for example, read one song lyrics and 3 boomer jokes). While doing it, I translate each unknown word. If I stumble upon same word multiple times and each time don't remember it, I write it down to my personal "dictionary". Maybe I'll use these notes in some site with card system in future.
That's my plan, 30-60 minutes of exercise each day, trying to focus on more common words first, and we'll see how will it work out in half-a-year or so.