On AVERAGE, if you studied French at home 5 hours a week, how long would it take to become a fluent speaker?

Answer 1

Assuming you're a native English speaker, then between 250 and 500 hours should get you to a competent standard; but only if you are motivated, have real purpose and have the opportunity to practise, preferably with a native. So - one to two years - but you should start feeling comfortable in certain situations after about 6 months.

Answer 2

depends on how well structured your course is + your personal ability of remembering and comprehending, but since your native language (seems to be) english, it should not take that long, french shares a lot of vocabulary with english, however the grammar is very different. I studied french at school for 7 years and hated it, so I never picked anything much up...I've been studying japanese for the last 3 years and know much more than I ever did french....so motivation is everything when it comes to learning languages, but i do it for roughly 5 hours a day....not a week.

Answer 3

It depends what kind of learner you are. If you really want to do it, and study every night, you should be able to speak it in a year. Probably not less than that. I took french from grade 4 until grade 12, and I can speak it but not perfectly. We only had one class a day for french so that's probably why. If you study every day, you could probably do it in a year. I would invest in Rosetta Stone or some kind of language books. Rosetta Stone is expensive, but probably one of the better ones. If you don't want to invest that much, just go to Chapters or something and buy language books.

Answer 4

French is a hard language.
However if you study it seriously- meaning you learn lists of vocabulary (one hour), you learn how to conjugate (one hour) , you do some practice (an hour of conversational french) and you learn to read french (one hour) plus one hour review, you should go pretty far in a year or two. It's about being commited.

Good Luck

Answer 5

the thing about studying a foreign language is practice.
practicing on your own is good, of course, but your improvement wouldn't be as much if you have someone (native speaker, if possible) to practice with. I learned 4 foreign languages, and already forgot 2 of them since I didn't use the language for quite sometime. And it usually take me about a year to really master a language, and of course, by daily practice with a counterpart.

Answer 6

24 weeks, that is, 120 hours, of purposeful effort at learning, with focus on speaking, should result in you being able to speak French through home study: six months, mon ami!

Answer 7

I've studied it for 6 years now, and I can speak but I'm not too able! French is very difficoult!

Answer 8

20 years.

Answer 9

Studying French is one thing, but knowing how to pronounce it by yourself would be very difficult. Seems like you would need a tutor or teacher to teach you.