I studied French at school, but that was almost 10 years ago. I have taken it up again, but am busy with other commitments, so don't have much time. I've started to listen to French radio stations online, which is fun (and passive!). I've also started to learn Italian from scratch, but French is obviously much easier, because I have some knowledge already. I don't have much time, so can anyone give me some advice?
2007-01-20 07:10:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
1) Read children's books written in the language, because they use easy words.
2) Try to find the same newspapers' articles in your language and the other language and compare both of them.
3) Find the meanings of the new words
4) Write down all the new words and the meaning in index cards, so that you can allways carry them everywhere and learn the vocabulary.
5) Find native speakers and avoid speaking your language.
Usually native speakers are glad to find someone who is interested in their language.
6) Find children's movies in the language. Look at the reason in # 1
7) Later if you know a lot of words and how to use them, use one language dicitionary( French-French or Spanish-Spanish). Don't use two language dictionary , such as English- French anymore.
8) Last but not least.
Find regular time to study it. It is much better to learn 1 word a day than 50 words a month. Regularity is very,very important .
Read,read and read.Learn.learn and learn.
Good luck
2007-01-20 07:32:47 · answer #1 · answered by afortunado 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
German is a b***h of a language. There are part a dozen approaches of claiming "the" and an identical quantity of approaches of constructing a plural! I talk German and French and now not Spanish, however I've heard that Spanish is the simplest. German is absolutely the toughest. You do not even want so much German in case you plan to journey in Germany, Austria or Switzerland considering resort and eating place humans mainly have a fundamental seize of English, as do so much proficient more youthful humans. However German is priceless as a lingua franca (average language) in jap Europe. Also, if you recognize German it is particularly effortless to make out the gist of the opposite Germanic languages, i.e. the Scandinavian languages and Dutch. French will supply you entry to a richer and extra fascinating literature than Spanish will. It can also be extra priceless in case you move to Africa, considering most of the international locations are former French colonies wherein the humans talk French. On the opposite hand, Spanish will likely be far more priceless in Latin America or even ingredients of the US. It is dependent upon what you desire.
2016-09-08 03:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by lavis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immerse yourself in it. Listen to French music, buy French food (to practice reading the food labels) get a French pen pal, take language courses, write little notes in French, use it every where you can.
2007-01-20 12:21:22 · answer #3 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to France, avoid people from your homecountry and never talk english. Put yourself in a situaion where you need to talk about difficult stuff.
2007-01-20 07:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Reeka 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the quickest way..
go to france
2007-01-20 09:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by nola_cajun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋