How hard is it to learn the French language? And what is the best way to learn it?? Thanks for the help.?

Answer 1

The French language follows an entirely different logic, and can be confusing to native English speakers at first. It's so similar, and yet everything about it seems so backwards: word positioning, word stress, pronunciation (hardly any of our sounds line up perfectly), idiomatic expressions, use of prepositions and gendered articles (the feminist movement must be a blast in the francophone world)... the list goes on and on. It's funny how different a language can be even when it's right next door all around the world.

And after 9 years of speaking it, it makes so much more sense than English (I mean, it started making sense a long time before now), but it's a beautiful language in every way to me. You have to love the language to really get a grasp on it.

Start with an introductory course at a Community College, this will provide you with basic grammar.
Interaction by Susan St. Onge is a fantastic textbook (but it's looking pricey online); may I suggest about.french.com with Laura K. Lawless? She does a fantastic job with the site, and it's just as valuable as the textbook for... free!
Purchase "Tell Me More" (Parle-Moi Encore), a software program that interactively teaches vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation help, and provides situations for you to practice in. Rosetta Stone is also pretty good [and pretty easy to find in torrents, shhhhh]... but I much prefer the most up-to-date version of Tell Me More.
Get French Tapes for in the car once you begin to understand the grammar. If you start learning phrases without understanding what elements they're made up of first, they're nothing but a splatter of sound to you.

Start meeting French people at any time. Heck, you could even sign in Yahoo answers on yahoo.fr and ask if anyone wants to be your pen-pal. The can be great teachers, because the French love teaching French to others if they get a sense that you're really passionate about it. They seem to hate anyone else.

Answer 2

It's relatively easy. French has a few sounds that the English language doesn't have, so you have to learn them.
The best ways to learn (in order):
1. live in France for several months
2. marry a French woman
3. join a French conversation club (after learning the basics)
4. take a college class
5. take a high school class
6. get a set of French lessons on CD
7. use a software program like Rosetta Stone
8. get a French lesson book

Answer 3

The french language is a fairly easy language to learn once you get past the genders I think night classes at your local college is a good source because you will hear the correct way to pronounce the words, the french have a beautiful way of rolling their 'r's'

Answer 4

I had a private tutor, which was great. I also learned most from travelling to France. You pick up vocabulary without trying when you go there. The most difficult part of French is the grammar. The pronounciation is not so difficult once you learn to pronounce their alphabet. Avoid Montreal!!! They speak a very strange dialect and are very nasty to English speakers who also speak French, er real French, not Quebecoise

Answer 5

Fall in love with a French man ... tis how I learned and taught him English at the same time ;)

It's not all that hard, just gotta give it time and practice, the best way would be to move to France where you are forced to speak it everyday, you'll pick up on it in a hurry with no classes at all

Answer 6

french is easy if you speak british english, spanish is easy if you speak american english.

well french is differnt from english but is easy compared from japanese or some random language. its easy

best way is to go to france and learn how to talk, then learn how grammer works.
but here may be just take class in school or some, but best is by talking french not trying to learn from the books

Answer 7

mmmm i would say nothing is hard if you really intrested to learn something... and the best way whatever u know in french language just speak new words thats the best way u can learn easily.... hope it will help good luck

Answer 8

I studied french in France. It's better that way as you don't have any other choice but to use that language, so you improve. And, I will try to stay in Paris for at least a month every year, just to refresh my memory.

Answer 9

Rosetta Stone is the way to go. This system is very inexpensive and they make it very easy to understand and learn different languages. Give it a try. It is online hence you can learn at your own pace, privacy and leisure. Good luck.

Answer 10

Much easier than Spanish I'd say. It's romantic. You can read a book on French.

First Lesson: Pronunciation: J=sh

Je suis americain= sh swees a-may-reec-ah

Je veux parler francais= sh voo parlay frahsay