What is a good way to learn the french language?
September 18, 2009 by admin
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I am interested in learning french, please give me some ways on learning french. (give me something other that getting rosetta stone.)
You can visit : http://pagesperso-orange.fr/comptoir-des-archives/french.htm http://frenchkeys.blogspot.com/ You have very good free audio and video to learn french on the french international TV and Radio : TV5 and RFI ! http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/lf/langue_francaise.php and http://www.rfi.fr/lfen/statiques/accueil.asp French is not hard, the main difference with English is: you have to use easy articles and pronouns before all your verbs, nouns or complements (the, a, some, who, which, this…). The French language is more articulate. (I mean… “articulate”… “articles”…) You can learn Spanish, German, Italian… French… but, if you don’t have 1500 French words in your brain, that will be difficult. If you know 1500 words, no more, you can easily understand a French speaking (or an other language). Grammar and conjugation are important, but, without 1500 words you will not understand anything. With 1500 words, but, without grammar and conjugation, you will understand all the same. 
study it in school (like me) or get private tutors
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Usually I’m all for people doing what they want and stuff, but I really have to tell you, I do NOT recommend learning French! It is REALLY hard.
I’ve been taking it in school for 2 years, and it makes me want to kill myself sometimes. I hate it more than u could ever imagine.
If u really want to learn it though, I’d suggest going to the bookstore and looking through the books, to see which one suits you best. Everyone learns differently.
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The best way to learn French is to live in France!
However, if this is not possible you can start by either getting a tutor or teaching yourself! About.com/French is a good site which offers grammar info, vocab, online tests and aural material.
I found that listening to songs in French and watching French films was a great way to perfect the accent and ‘immerse’ yourself in the language if going to France is out of the question.
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Check out the link below. It really helped me learn a new language in a really short amount of time
http://www.hardwaremod.com
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have a look at http://freefrench.frenchspanishonline.com it is free with mp3 files
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I wish I knew! I am 22 years old and have been taking French since I was 4 and I am still not fluent! Granted I don’t put in the study time I should!!
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You can visit :
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/comptoir-des-archives/french.htm
http://frenchkeys.blogspot.com/
You have very good free audio and video to learn french on the french international TV and Radio : TV5 and RFI !
http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/lf/langue_francaise.php
and
http://www.rfi.fr/lfen/statiques/accueil.asp
French is not hard, the main difference with English is: you have to use easy articles and pronouns before all your verbs, nouns or complements (the, a, some, who, which, this…). The French language is more articulate. (I mean… "articulate"… "articles"…)
You can learn Spanish, German, Italian… French… but, if you don’t have 1500 French words in your brain, that will be difficult.
If you know 1500 words, no more, you can easily understand a French speaking (or an other language).
Grammar and conjugation are important, but, without 1500 words you will not understand anything.
With 1500 words, but, without grammar and conjugation, you will understand all the same.
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I tried rosetta for Spanish. It does not have any translation, grammar or conjugation instructions so it will be very hard to go beyond the basics with it. It is good for the basics as it is pure memorization. There is no way to be fluent with it. Their program is based on the same thing where you see these 4 pictures over and over again. I was disappointed especially for the price I paid.
My college uses tell me more. My goal was to become fluent so it was perfect for me and I bought their individual version. It has a lot of different activities: picture/word association, videos, dialogues,…, includes also grammar and conjugation. It has also more content than any other language software. Their speech recognition is great so you can have a dialogue with the computer. You can check out their website for a free demo http://www.tellmemore.com and compare too, or visit independent reviews websites(About.com, http://www.toptenreviews.com...).
The best way to learn a language would be through immersion, visiting these countries. Learning a language will require some time. In addition to software, you can have books which are useful as well. Audio CDs like Pimsleur for instance might help you out but you cannot get any feedback on your pronunciation so I did not like it so much
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