3 Luminous Tips on Learning French that could Speed up any French Student’s Progress
This post is all about tips on learning French
Sometimes a good word or advice can redirect someone and make him or she succeed when the frustration has settled. I have had my share of ups and downs learning English and I want to share with you 3 of the most important tips on learning French any student of French will ever receive.
I have collected these 3 tips just for you to implement them and see the result.
You will see below how just a couple of these tips on learning French are so powerful in giving anyone an accrued confidence in speaking French in a speedy manner. That is what will happen to you.
This post is all about tips on learning French
I BELIEVE THAT IN ORDER TO LEARN BETTER, COMFORT AND SELF-CONFIDENCE ARE ESSENTIAL, THAT IS WHY IN ALL MY COURSES I SHOW YOU THESE LETTERS THAT BOTHER YOU FROM BEING THERE WHILE THEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCED. THAT IS ALSO WHY I SIMPLY ASK YOU TO IMITATE ME OVER AND OVER USING A LANGUAGE THAT IS CONTRACTED SO THAT YOU WILL FEEL EMPOWERED WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR YOU TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE FRENCH.
TIPS ON LEARNING FRENCH
Here are 3 SAD beliefs that slow you down
1. I need to memorize as many words as possible
Doubt and fear
When I start to memorize that long list, what message does it send to my brain? It sends something like: I will never know enough to function in that language. Satisfaction is not guaranteed. I think it will not work when I try to have a simple conversation with someone when I get there. The doubt about my possibilities makes me want to throw the towel. Of course, knowing these words could make me feel safer for a minute until the doubt comes. The safety net that I think I created for myself vanishes very rapidly.
They will not avoid you
Do people like you more, because you know more? Sometimes yes, when you know much much more. Until you are able to have a deeper conversation, the quantity of words is not crucial. What you just want is to be able to function, build a foundation.
Make your own list
Practice the most common verbs on this blog. On top of that, you can learn words describing what you do in life. That alone could be useful to you. Not necessarily to someone else, but these words are important to you.
2. I need grammar
I know that to be understood, to communicate, I don’t need to make a perfect sentence. And in fact, recalling the grammar rules over and over makes me apprehensive to speak French. Just to believe that I need grammar is not healthy thinking if I want to speak French. To write, yes. But to speak, no.
I’ll tell you something personal. When I came to the US, I had studied English for 5 years and it took me three years to feel comfortable in a casual conversation. My French sound engineer who came not knowing a word of English, who didn’t learn any grammar, was comfortable after one year only.
This blog will help any student of French avoid this problem
3. People will not understand my French.
You think you can speak French but you can’t:
If you feel you are not understood, that means that you probably can’t speak. You think you can, but you can’t. It’s a very easy fix. It’s no use to use it as an excuse to delay the experience of talking French with the French. When you start learning French, you have to have the end result very clear in your mind. It’s rarely the case, in fact.
At a mike, in a conference situation or teaching, we don’t speak the way we speak casually between friends.
If you are not understood, it’s probably because you speak like in class. An important thing to remember: In order to understand, to make sense of what is said, you don’t need the details. But to be understood, you will need the details.
It’s not about the content, the number of words, or the grammar.
It’s about the form of the delivery. If your form of delivery is different than the one you will experience once in the situation, then your learning of French is useless. You have to have the goal in detail in your mind. Really clear. Only then you can practice the form with confidence, and relax because it’s not as demanding as learning grammar.
Aim for efficiency
You learn, memorize the words, yes, but in context, the vocabulary that you will most probably use right away. Your best choice could be to have a strategy before you start. You will not have to spend your energy on something that will slow you down anymore. Don’t give credit to actions that will delay your result. This is the best way to learn French on your own, the best way to learn French online.
This blog will do that for any student who wants to learn French and use it.
This session was all about tips on learning french. Implement them and you will be on your way to successfully speak French.
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Excerpts from my learn French post:
7 LIFE-CHANGING TIPS TO LEARN FRENCH FAST EVERY STUDENT OF FRENCH SHOULD KNOW
READ THE FULL POST: LEARN FRENCH FAST
Is time important for you?
….If you typed ‘learn French fast, you are probably not a student. Students know that it will request time.
You are caught and you need to learn fast because… Most of the apps you can find on your phone will probably be useless when you land there. They just make you feel good before you take off, and that’s it. Well, if you are leaving in two weeks, it’s a little late, but it’s not without a solution…
What is your goal?
…. The important question to ask yourself is: What am I learning French for? Because most of the known programs will not help you speak and also understand and be understood. Why? Because most of them have not been created by the French. And even If the creators were actually French, they might have been intellectuals whose interest or focus is mainly to write. But you want to speak French.
The French are not the only ones who know the French language but they are the only ones who have been speaking it since birth…
Excerpt from my French conjugation post:
9 INCREDIBLY USEFUL TIPS TO A FRENCH CONJUGATION PRACTICE EVERY FRENCH BEGINNER SHOULD KNOW
READ THE FULL POST: FRENCH CONJUGATION PRACTICE
We chose to be selective
….To master the French conjugation online, I propose that you start with the easy part, but not only the easy part. You want to practice the verbs that are most used. Actually, they are the same in all languages. So which verbs, like French verbs, are the most used?
We are going to repeat them over and over. if you have followed me through these live events, you might remember I mentioned several times the quote in ‘the Crown’ that says: we learn through imitation. Right?
At the condition that what we repeat is not wrong. Repeating a million times something that is wrong will not make it right at the end…
Free Workshop to learn French
First, register for the new free workshop because the pre-registration is also free. I don’t know the date of the next workshop yet but only the people who have pre-registered will be invited. The workshop is free. It’s a half-hour each day ‘live’ with me to learn how to use this great tool. However, you need to be pre-qualified. Click HERE.
Second, confirm that you are coming and we can work together on making your French learning easier and more effective.
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