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andylow



Joined: 23 Apr 2007
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I am going to study in France and now want to learn French and other languages as well. Do you have any good ideas?
Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:29 am
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house21



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just try and talk to people in french as much you can.
Read a book in french ,tv,radio etc
If it works let me know ,I wanna try it too:)
Sat May 05, 2007 7:51 pm
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Marcus



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Don't stay with foreigners... It's rather difficult at the beginings as French are not so welcoming, but, after a few time, you'll see they're truly enjoying... sometimes.

It also depends on where you'll be.

Reguards.
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peegai



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If you cannot afford the services of a renowned linguistics tutor, your ideal option would be to consider buying do-it-yourself language courses, followed by practical experience with native speakers. If you have French friends, this will be a lot easier pour vous-- not everyone in France will have the patience to educate the English foreigner on idioms and whatnot.

But if you find that these courses are not particularly engaging enough for you, in addition to reading and writing difficulties, then try out Michael Thomas.

The key to language learning is to make it fun and versatile while not being afraid to make errors here and there.
Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:26 am
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There are also language cd-roms that are pretty good. There you can pratice language and grammar.
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lewis



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I can highly suggest this french course that i actually went out and did myself not so long ago and now am coping alot better in france

squidoo.com/rocketfrenchreviewnow

or click my sig to get a direct link to the review on it Smile
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Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:17 pm
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FastClown



Joined: 10 Nov 2008
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there are many ways to learn french if you are really eager, there are websites that offers to teach the french language and there are a lot of books offering the same service.

But I guess it really is much effective to learn from a certain school or a certain tutor, and practising it on a french community.
Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:06 am
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112inky



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Few basic words to learn..

Excuse me/sorry - Excusez-moi
Glad to meet you - Enchanté
Good-by - Au revoir
Good evening - Bon soir
Good morning/good day - Bon jour
Hello - Salut
Here - Ici
How are you? - Comment allez-vous?
Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:44 am
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icare_1er



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Hi,

I am French, and I sometines think about foreigners who are learning to speak my language... it must be very difficult ! But I think it's worth it ! For a very long time, French was the language used by politics in many countries when they were meeting together, it changed after the WW1.

But German is even more difficult. For us French, it is easy to learn English, and Spanish. German is quite hard.

Here are the mains hard points with French, to my opinion:

- in English, to describe a thing, you say: "the ...". In French, a thing can have two genders (like men and women).

You say "the car", and "the dog", but we say "LA voiture" (the car), adn "LE chien" (the dog). Car is female, dog is female. And for each word you will have to learn it...

- we have far more "times". You only have preterit, past perfect, present perfect, futur.... we have at least 10. And you say:

"I drive, you drive, he/she drives, we drive, you drive, they drive" (it's always drive), whereas we say "je conduis, tu conduis, il/elle conduit, nous conduisons, vous conduisez, ils/elles conduisent".

So if you start learning French, good luck !
Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:12 pm
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smile89



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Hey,

First of all, I think it´s really great that you are moving to france to study French! I also studied a semester in France to learn the language. To really improve your French, I suggest immersing yourself in the language as much as you can... watch tv/movies in French, listen to French radio, try reading the newspaper, etc. Even if you don´t understand it all, you will begin to get a better ear for it. What helped a lot for me was making local friends, even if this seems intimidating at first. My vocabularly improved drastically and of course so did my knowlege of French slang Smile
Bonne chance!!
Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:20 am
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esl-languages



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I am French, and I sometines think about foreigners who are learning to speak my language... it must be very difficult ! But I think it's worth it ! For a very long time, French was the language used by politics in many countries when they were meeting together, it changed after the WW1.

But German is even more difficult. For us French, it is easy to learn English, and Spanish. German is quite hard.

Here are the mains hard points with French, to my opinion:

- in English, to describe a thing, you say: "the ...". In French, a thing can have two genders (like men and women).

You say "the car", and "the dog", but we say "LA voiture" (the car), adn "LE chien" (the dog). Car is female, dog is female. And for each word you will have to learn it...

- we have far more "times". You only have preterit, past perfect, present perfect, futur.... we have at least 10. And you say:

"I drive, you drive, he/she drives, we drive, you drive, they drive" (it's always drive), whereas we say "je conduis, tu conduis, il/elle conduit, nous conduisons, vous conduisez, ils/elles conduisent".






hi thanks for wonderful starting i m learning french frm one of my frnd too,ite really helps me.......a gud starting...for me......
thnkx
Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:43 am
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