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Anyone have advice on learning French?
by OldFatCactus 9y ago
Anyone have advice on learning French?
- chillacy 9y agoI did the following: * Start the Duolingo tree * Start Pimsleur French around checkpoint 2 when I realized I couldn't speak at all * Start taking classes at Alliance Francaise when I started struggling with the grammar, starting at 103 * Spend at least a week in immersion in a Francophone country to solidify the learning * Start drilling nouns + gender with Anki when I noticed that native speakers kept correcting my gender usage
- OldFatCactus 9y agothanks!
- Mediterraneo10 9y agoBackpack in Morocco and West Africa. And when I say backpack, I don’t mean just follow the hostel trail and stay with other foreigners. Try to stay independent and maximize your contact with the local people. (I learned active French over several months hitchhiking in the region, for example. Before going, I had a decent passive reading knowledge like any bookish European). I highly recommend learning French there because the local people are much more tolerant of mistakes than in France proper. They will just be happy you can communicate. And yet, many urban Moroccans and Senegalese speak French so well, so virtually natively, that they are good models to learn from.
- OldFatCactus 9y agoThanks!