How many years of taken French courses will it take to reach fluency?

Question

I'm going to my third year of French come August and would like to know if I should expect to be fluent by the time I graduate after four years of French under my belt.

Answer 1

I'm doing my third year of French and I think that to reach fluency you need three more years to be a professional. I've seen students that had six years learning french three times a week and still have difficulties to speak but start to have an excellent fluent accent, so I recommend you to study like three to four years more. Obviously, it all depends of your spirit, ppl that are really into languages the fluency right away, believe me I saw it with my aunt.
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Answer 2

Depends how serious you are about the class, how much you practice, and how often you are able to be immersed in French.

I graduated high school with 4 years of French "under my belt" and while I was sharp at the time, I was nowhere near fluent. And it's faded fast since then. However, it gave me a good foundation, so were I ever to be plopped in Paris with nothing but a "good luck!" and a wave, I would probably be fluent in months due to the immersion. It's the "sink or swim" learning plan. You learn faster by necessity.

I would suggest continuing your studies--formally and/or informally-- after school (whether you're in high school or college). If you can, take a trip to France. Live there for a few months or a year, if you really want to be fluent.

But it's not quite like riding a bike. If you don't use it, it will fade, and it won't just "come right back." You'll have to rebuild what is lost and re-remember things, and in some cases be "re-taught."

Hope that helps! Et bon chance!

Answer 3

I took two years of French in college years, or shall I say decades ago, and I can tell you that the one way to learn any language fluently is to get beyond classes and go to the people and live among them. I never got to do that, but I can tell you that because of the first day of my second year of classes, the professor, Mr. Simpson, an American with no French heritage, walked in, and in the most perfect Parisian dialect, said, "Bon jour. My name is Monsieur Simpson." And that is the LAST ENGLISH WE EVER HEARD FROM HIM ALL SEMESTER LONG!!!!! Were we scared? Hell yes!! Were we confused? Dang right! Could we figure out how to make "A's" in his class? FINALLY!!! Some of us in the class who were more into having fun and were more social, etc., got together and figured it out. We figured that if we got together as a group, outside class, and mimicked Monsieur Simpson's dialect, along with our knowledge of the French vocabulary and syntax and grammar, we'd impress the hell out of him, even when we failed to do it correctly, and he'd give us better grades, which is what students are primarily interested in. The big surprise was that Monsieur Simpson so loved our attempt to mimick and impress him that, IN FRENCH ONLY, he, a very animated man, literally pulled it, the spoken language, out of us in class, and before you know it, we were doing GREAT. Oh, and let me add that he and the two other French teachers, held cheese fondu parties at their houses regularly for the students, and it was FANTASTIC!!!! I'm sorry to say that, after my classes were done and I had to go on to other classes, I fell out of contact with the other classmates, and at least I, if not more of the class, lost our French language skills. If you are ever so lucky to have such a wonderful professor as Monsieur Simpson, and can relate to classmates as we did back then, never let go of it. It was a wonderful experience. God Bless you.

Answer 4

I recommend that you try to read French books, newspapers and magazines, and maybe even talking to French people. Perhaps you could get a French pen pal and write only in French. What you learn at school, and what is actually really spoken are often different, school French is very techical and correct, but as you will know, what gets spoken is not.

Answer 5

i do no longer evaluate which you will "totally" benefit wisdom of any language, yet you need to become fluent in somewhat some years (quite much less ought to you benefit wisdom of a few esperanto on the element). As to "formally bilingual", I have no thought if there is any guy or woman picking that. that's basically feeling the two comfy in the two language

Answer 6

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