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| Daciana Newbie United States Joined 5232 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Studies: Romanian, English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 1 of 5 09 November 2010 at 6:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Lately I've been wanting to learn French, but the problem is is I'm a little bit of a picky person.
I don't really like learning by myself, I find that having some sort of teacher to help me greatly improves my skills. My high school does offer French, but I think their pace is too slow for me. I am *almost* completely fluent in Romanian, and I am doing my second year of Spanish, so I have the basic Latin-based-language functions in my brain. My question is... How should I go about learning French? EDIT: Ok, maybe I can learn by myself if the program is good. Edited by Daciana on 11 November 2010 at 7:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5324 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 5 14 November 2010 at 11:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps Assimil is right for you.
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| RealJames Diglot Newbie Japan realizeenglish.com/ Joined 5115 days ago 37 posts - 42 votes Speaks: French, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 5 14 November 2010 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah I'll second that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jacky67 Diglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 5115 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Cantonese, English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 5 14 November 2010 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well you definitely need a native-speaker to guide you along thw way(correcting your pronunciation, grammar structure etc)
Hiring a native-spaker to tutor you will make significant improvement and accelerate the process. You may not agree with that but it works for me. I been having 3 lessons a week for nearly 2 months and i can hold up basic daily conversation and wrtie (self-introduction dairy) withoout any problem. Ask questions,don't just wait and let them feed you in the lessons. Edited by jacky67 on 14 November 2010 at 3:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5113 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 5 of 5 17 November 2010 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Michel Thomas + Assimil (The old editions are best) + Lingq + any other supplementary resources you have. Study as much as you can. Try studying in 15-20 minute periods, then take a 15 minute break, then start again. That way you won't tire yourself. After 3 hours of that you will have studied 1 hour and 30 minutes. Which is pretty good I would say.
The reason I say Michel Thomas is because he teaches you all the tenses. Or at least, all the ones that an average native speaker would use everyday. He also teaches you how to conjugate, soon you'll know all the conjugations by heart. He also teaches you the articles and syntax, which can be tough to learn on your own. And of course, he touches you other things apart from grammar. And it's all done effortlessly. Then I say Assimil (The old edition) because the newer ones resemble a phrasebook more than a language learning tool... Assimil is good for reading practice. It can also be used as a stand alone method. Lingq is also good for reading practice. The format of Lingq is quite good, and there are audio files that you can play that feature native speakers reading out the lesson you're currently on. The only thing that I don't like about the sound file is that the speakers don't speak very clearly, the man in the recordings mumbles and hardly makes any coherent sense... So maybe go for the lessons that are not conversations between two people, but rather articles, in which case it's usually just the woman reading them, and she speaks a little more clearly. That's what I'm doing, it seems to be working for me so far. But of course, I have a lot of spare time, so this method may not be suitable for you. Anyways, I wish you luck with your French :) Edited by CheeseInsider on 17 November 2010 at 10:22pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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