2006-09-19 07:43:44 · 6 answers · asked by jadu 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
Sure. All the little French kids learn to speak by the time they're four or five, right? And no one is giving them grammar homework.
So all you need is to be allowed to ONLY speak french, and have a couple native speakers standing at your elbow 16 hours a day to correct you every time you make a mistake.
Otherwise, you probably have to study grammmar.
2006-09-19 07:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by matt 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what you plan to do with this knowledge. If you just want to know some French words, get your self a French?English dictionary and start memorizing. However, if you're wanting to communicate in French, you need to learn the grammar, just like you did with English (although much of it was probably learned through listening, rather than being taught).
2006-09-19 10:16:35 · answer #2 · answered by homeschoolmom 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you can find a TPRS teacher, the grammar portion of the language will be de-emphasized with the receptive skills (listening and reading) emphasized. Grammar is not neglected, but relegated to a support skill, used for editing. Google 'TPRS map' to find a teacher in your state. Some do private lessons or teach groups of home schoolers.
2006-09-19 11:21:53 · answer #3 · answered by frauholzer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosetta Stone French http://www.amazon.com/Rosetta-Stone-French-Level-Personal/dp/B000077DD2 . I really am baffled at the French teachers comments to have to know French grammar first in order to learn to speak French. No one learns to speak their language by knowing grammar first, it is ridiculous.
My children are 8 and 12 and learn Spanish via the Rosetta Stone programs and they are doing awesome. Not only are they speaking what spanish they have learned, but writing, as well as identifying what the speaker has said. They have a cousin in public schools who is going on her second year of Spanish, she is in the ninth grade and is taught grammar first (which is how I was taught and do not remember)...she couldn't remember squat over summer vacation. Yet, mine had retained what they learned in just a short time.
You learn to speak a foreign language best by hearing it, reading it, and using it; grammar is a natural part of the process. Most children, without a single grammar lesson, by the time they are 3-4 years can tell stories and speak fluently to adults and other children (unless they are hearing impaired or around adults who do not speak English well). Did they need to know how to identify nouns and verbs and adjectives? Subjects and predicates? Past and present participles? Heck no.
If you want to learn a language both quickly and effectively and retain what you have learned...Rosetta Stone is the way to go. Unless of course you can hang out as an exchange student with a French family.
Goodness, how ever did humans ever learn to speak their own and other languages before the grammar police entered the scene? If grammar was 'the' best way to learn languages, we probably wouldn't have learned anyone elses language as of yet.
2006-09-19 11:56:17 · answer #4 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No Brother,I am a french teacher,and in my opinion you have to go through the sentence construction and grammar!!there is no other choice!!
2006-09-19 07:50:25 · answer #5 · answered by rockyjsa 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
try Instant Immersion. I've heard it works great.
2006-09-19 10:29:18 · answer #6 · answered by Terri 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋