I want to learn French, what is the best method?

Answer 1

The full immersion is definitely the most efficient. However if you can't travel, or stay abroad, there are some other methods added or beside lessons.

Renting French movies and watching them with English subtitles will help you get used to the vocabulary, the word and the accent. (Blockbuster has some or you can rent some with dual language.)

And to learn the language in itself, reading is very efficient. Like any language the easiest is to start with kids books; you won't meet there technical words or complicated sentences and with the help of a dictionary you will learn many words while getting used to the way French sentences are built and learning those words spelling.

After some time you can buy a grammar book, go for a simple one like used in schools (French grammar is full of exceptions...).

Finding a writing pen pal can also help and as it motivates in the communication.

Bonne chance, ma langue maternelle est riche, belle et poétique. ;-)

Answer 2

I lived in France for three years and I learned the entirety of the language in about 3 months. So the ideal method would be just immersing yourself in the area where you are sort of forced to learn the language to get through the day.

Realistically though I recommend a tutor or a class or short of these a CD/book deal that teaches you.
-sean

Answer 3

Let's take a step back from all these suggestions to take a class/buy software/watch TV programmes. All of these suggestions point to one thing: you need a structure within which you learn the fundamental grammar and have plenty of chances to practice (speaking, listening and writing). The Alliance Francaise (or French Alliance) is a worldwide organization that offers language classes -- see if there is a branch near you.

There are many different software packages to study French -- if you take this route, my suggestion is that you get onto Amazon and read the reviews of the various products and choose the right one for you.

Answer 4

If you can afford it, move to a french speaking country. By immersing yourself in the language, you'll be able to hold conversations in about 4 months. If you can't do the trip, take a few classes at the local community college. If you're really trying to keep the price down, I've heard the books on tape/cd work pretty well, but you really have to be dedicated.

Answer 5

If you based in India the best start is joining any of the Alliance Francaise's of the French Cultural offices
get grounded with the grammar with the first two levels strongly - after that U can think of alternatives per your circumstances.Get details of schedules & other info' here http://www.af-madras.org.

Answer 6

there is a computer program for learning foreign languages called Rosetta Stone. It is a bit expensive but you learn the same way you learned English. By associating the pictures and settings with correct terminology. Much less wrong use of right words this way.

Answer 7

Go with a CD with a book that accompany it. Then try to immerse yourself. If there are no frechn students in your class, find a group that meets in French.

Answer 8

Buy the CD- Oxford Hachette French learner or download the software iFinger.

Answer 9

I was stuck in a hotel in French Guine with no english speakers for a month and no Enlish TV on french with English subtitles. I was fluent after a month.

Answer 10

For community audio gadget of english, french is as common as spanish, dutch, norwegian, italian, frisian, portuguese, swedish, meaning you prefer a minimum of 575 hours of paintings to attain fluency. i don't understand what you mean by potential of "affective", however the main *powerful* way is to check Esperanto (it rather is meant to take a minimum of one hundred fifty hours) first ( wikipedia Propaedeutic_value_of_esperanto ) and to divulge your self in diverse approaches: watching movies/television with solid subtitles in english, analyzing books (even toddlers' or comics at first) with a dictionary by potential of your ingredient, listening to spoken radio, putting with francophones, doing language video games and puzzles. Do ensure you have some help in getting the pronunciation good, good from the initiating. sure there are people who enable you to privately or in a set. you are able to placed up a word on your community food market/library/college/newspaper to discover them. There is additionally a financial disaster of the "alliance francaise" on your place of origin