I have many relitives in france and am going to visit them in a few months. I'm pretty good with languages and love learning them and would like to be able to speak French pretty well by then. I know that I can't be fluent by then but I would love to be able to easily communicate.
Any tips? Hints? etc
2006-10-06 16:19:23 · 12 answers · asked by anna_sslc 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
my dad speaks french pretty fluently and I am in contact with some of the relitives. I've been teaching myself for a while now.
2006-10-06 19:15:57 · update #1
french is NOT something you can learn in 3 months, or a language where you can manage to learn in months for a conversation.
It is 1 of the hardest languages in the world! I'm good at languages as well, but find french extremely hard, even though i speak it fluently.
The best things to do, are to learn off by heart, know the simple words, like bonjour, je m'appelle...
There is pretty much nothing else you can do, except get lessons, and start speaking or writing to someone who is a NATIVE speaker.
Also, if you don't practise your accent, the french will not understand you.
If you need any help, I can give you some lessons.
2006-10-06 18:05:40 · answer #1 · answered by loopy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell your relatives to not speak any english to you or you can try going to France without letting your relatives know. Once you're there you can starve to death for a few days and I'm sure that before you know it you'll be speaking French to the people to get some food.
2006-10-07 05:02:15 · answer #2 · answered by ***** 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French classes
2006-10-06 23:20:47 · answer #3 · answered by ! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The adverb "easily" depends on your hability to learn languages. There is no "easy" way to learn a language. You must study and practice, study and practice. There is no other way.
Get a good method with a CD to listen and get to work.
The best is to hire a French teacher
2006-10-06 23:33:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think the easiest way would be to find someone who knows how to speek french fluently and get some books and the tapes to help you with the pronuciation... its a very hard language to learn tho... i took 3 years of it in school and still am not the best at it...
2006-10-06 23:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by Storm G. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
French is not easy. Takes a lot of time and practice. One tip, read a lot. Read books in French.
2006-10-06 23:50:51 · answer #6 · answered by zap 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
listen to everything, even if u don't understand exactly what it is saying , just take it all in, same with reading french don't freak if you don't understand something you'll probably get most of it by just understanding bits and pieces. Look over different forms of verbs. Memorize common phrases
2006-10-06 23:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by daynadime 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was gonna say go to france,but you are already doing that,so you will be ok
get pocket translator and you will speak it in no time
much quicker than trying to learn it from afar
2006-10-06 23:30:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watch Besson films. Enjoyable cinema and you'll be listening to spoken, sub-titled French.
2006-10-06 23:22:21 · answer #9 · answered by kalindoscopy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start sleeping with a French guy.
2006-10-06 23:27:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋