I took six years of French classes in high school and college, and I was pretty near fluent, but it's been a couple of years, and now I can only handle simple conversations. How can I get back my proficiency without paying a tutor?
2007-01-13 07:36:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Get a book (French Made Simple) and go through the exercises, listen to French music, and watch French films with subtitles en francais. Then you can go on a trip to France or a French-speaking country (Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, etc.). It worked for me.
2007-01-13 07:51:53 · answer #1 · answered by Philippe 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go to Club Med for a get away. It is French owned and a lot of people there speak French - You can fall back on English too if you need to AND have a fun vacation while cleaning the rust out of your 2nd language!! They have single, couples and family villages and are all inclusive- Bon Voyage!! Fabulous!!
2007-01-13 07:46:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch french movies.
Look if you can catch a french SAT tv channel.
Find a french person on your town with whom you can talk (check that s/he *is* french, do not believe those who think that they know french ;) ).
Search for a correspondent in France with whom you can talk at the phone (many people here can make phone calls to US for free).
2007-01-13 10:31:31 · answer #3 · answered by bloo435 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch a few French shows or movies to warm-up your brain. Once you hear some French, you'll start thinking French when you want to say somethin in French.
2007-01-13 08:15:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
watch french movies, read french books(challenging ones), go to France for 3weeks minimum and a month maximum, meet french speaking people and sign up at the alliance francaise you can do all that i mentioned except the france trip.
HOPE I WAS HELPFUL.
BONNE CHANCE ET AMUSEZ-VOUS!
2007-01-13 17:40:32 · answer #5 · answered by moi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a class at a public college, it shouldn't be too awfully expensive, And if you were fluent before, it shouldn't take you long to brush up & be fluent again!
2007-01-13 07:45:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you always Find somebody like myself who speaks french and then you could converse with them and regain ur lost skill in the language
2007-01-13 09:37:02 · answer #7 · answered by erikjca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can buy all sorts of books or cd roms, computer programs, there is a lot of options without resorting to a tutor
2007-01-13 07:44:08 · answer #8 · answered by Blue Rain 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
take a trip to france
2007-01-13 07:44:08 · answer #9 · answered by Idrankhemlock 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋