Reader Tip: Five Proven Ways to learn French
Forming Web Services / / December 19, 2019
This material sent to us by our regular reader Sanzhar Surshanov (his twitter @SanzharS), who shared a very interesting way to learn a new language for you.
Since the beginning of this year I began studying the French language. I do it with the help of the English language since I started confidently speak English, you can say I have found the key to numerous Internet resources.
Below, I want to list and describe how I teach French:
The site is based creators of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, students at Carnegie Mellon University. By the way, every time introducing recaptcha, you are helping to digitize thousands of old books. The basic idea is that people at the same time teaching language, translated into different languages online.
All material is divided into different categories.
In each category, there are exercises.
After you are finished exercising, you will be given to transfer the real stuff taken from the Internet. First, simple sentences, as we learn more and more complex. Translating offers you strengthen your knowledge and help to translate web pages. You can also look at other users translations.
Exercises include the translation of texts, speaking, listening. As such, there is no emphasis on grammar.
Besides French can be studied - Spanish, German, English, Italian and Portuguese.
There are apps for iPhoneIn May of this year and promise for Android.
By the way, recently I read that the study of Spanish with Duolingo can be much more effective in comparison with colleges and program Rosetta Stone. Could you do it - here. Perhaps it can be said not only about the Spanish.
Duolingo the news can be followed in the office. Twitter - @duolingo.
You can also watch performances creator duolingo at TED:
Michelle Thomas himself knows more than 10 languages and is known for having taught the Hollywood stars.
On the Internet you can buy or find audio lessons Michel, except the French have still other languages.
Audio lessons are like this: come to him 2 students who do not know French. So, you get the third student. Michel carries on a conversation with the students, and so they learn the language. He explains the difference between English and French, at first tells about new words, and then asked to translate from English into French.
The main difference between a rule and the method of Michel - Do not try to memorize the words, phrases, etc.
I do not know how to explain it, but after the first lesson, on an intuitive level, you yourself begin to guess how it will be in the target language.
I personally really like this method.
3. Memrise
To replenish the vocabulary I use memrise site.
On the site you can find a lot of different courses, you can even learn Morse code. I study - Hacking French.
Learning new words, you "grow flowers." Planting seeds, watering, etc.
The main feature is that you create memes and spend association with the English language for unfamiliar words. Memes themselves I did not create, use the creations of other users.
Grow flowers like this: at the beginning of memorizing the meaning of words, then repeat several times. Click on the correct answer, write the translation themselves, listening to an ice pick the correct answer from a list. This concludes the first part.
After 4-5 hours, via email you a notification arrives, you have to repeat traveled. Repeat the above, if the wrong in the translation, the word takes on repeat. That's about all happens.
Thanks to Twitter, just recently found a link to another great resource.
Very cool site for students of French - newsinslowfrench.com/french-for-beg... They have a grammar for beginners and News in slow french for medium
- Anna Ankona (@ankona) March 19, 2013
A total of 30 acts, each act is a conversation with a student teacher. At the beginning of the conversation is mostly in English, using a few French words. Further more. I promise that at the end of all of the conversations will be in French only.
After the opening speech, another conversation, already there is an emphasis on grammar. Then pronunciation, expression and so on. So in the end you can pass the test.
I use the third day, and very satisfied.
5. podcasts
If you have an iPod / iPhone / iPad, then in iTunes, you can find different podcasts for learning languages. There is even a special section for the French. I listen - French for beginngers.
And finally... you have to deal with every day to learn the language, enter it into a habit. I try to give 20-30 minutes. Since all of the above it is difficult to master for 30 minutes, I combine them. I listen to audio lessons on the road, at home or Duolingo, or memrise or, more recently? News in slow french.
From my own experience of learning English (thanks SDU Summer Language School), I know that you need to dive into the language completely. Watch videos, movies and TV shows with subtitles, then without. Listen to music with lyrics, audiobooks. Books for beginners, magazines, newspapers, ...
For example I now almost all foreign serials, films look at English. Already a habit. You do not have to wait for a particular series pereveduttw.
Almost a month later I protect diplomku, so that at the moment is not always possible to systematically learn the language. I think in the summer it will be possible to do this more seriously.
P.S. I wanted to learn French as a child, probably prompted me to this work by Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, and the reading of Russian classics, I often come across phrases in this beautiful language. Since childhood he wanted, but prompted me to start this is now fast @freetonik.
If you have experience, tips for learning a new language or French as a whole, share in the comments. I'll be glad.