I took french in high school for a few years but didn't learn a lot learned some but forgot a good bit. What is the best way to relearn what I forgot and learn more from home with books or the internet? NO ONE I know now speaks it but i would like to relearn at least the basics. We just used text in school.
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Get a CD on how to learn French.\nYou can get them on http://www.Amazon.com .\nYou can probably check some out of your local library to see if you like them before you buy them.\nYou can use them on a personal CD player.
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I don't know, I had some trouble with the grammar, I always tend to forget the s at the end of the verb when talking in 3rd person for example ( she speakS ) and I also had trouble with the meanings of words, I still don't understand many; AND words like: ¨nevermind¨or  ¨anyway¨ I didn't have any idea what they ment just by looking at the dictionary! :/ ..it's always necessary to make some friends I think; I had one friend who help me so much ..all the english I learnt was because she was so patient with me...I'm learning also some french and German, French is allright cause somehow is similar to my language but German..I'm thinking about quitting ( so hard! :/) .\n\nAnyway, I wish your english improves at a fast rate, reading helps a lot to learn new vocabulary ..and looking at your question seems like you are learning fast to me! :)...good luck!
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The 'Alliance Francaise' has a good reputation around the world. I'm French and I know many people who have learned Franch with this organisation: they were satisfied and their French is very good indeed!\nStill, the quickest method to learn a language is to spent a few months in the country.
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I sort of started on both at the same time.I had a CD of words and such,but I also started memorizing the letters too.I know some words,and I like to practice by reading different things I find like food boxes,TV shows and such.It's a very lovely language in writtien form.I am enjoying learning it.\n\nEveryone is different.Listen to the native speaker's answers.I just started off on my own.Start with sounds of letters,then go to numbers,then words.
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A friend of mine lived in France for six years and in his sixth year I was helping him with French translations (this was my third year there).\n\nAnother guy came with zero French, was sent to a special immersion course in Vichy for three weeks, found a French girlfriend and three months after his arrival his French was very good.\n\nIf you REALLY want to learn French - pretend (even for yourself) that you don't speak English.
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idk , but ur avatars hott lol my mom took french in highschool , she was the top in her class and she went to france . thats bout it lol i think she went for like a week or sunthin
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What type of studying are you talking about?  Like at a university?  I doubt it unless you have one hell of a scholarship.  And I've never heard of a scholarship that is given simply because you learn to speak French.  If you're going to France to study, I think it's kind of implied that you'd have to learn to speak French to do so.
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http://french.about.com/cs/francophonie/a/learnfrench.htm\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/index.shtml\nhttp://www.zapfrench.com/
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Go with French it so easy i con speak a little and it all come from movies and a book.And by movies i mean LITTLE MERMAID!LOL!jk.But ya french is so easy if you are willing to learn.
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I'm trying to teach myself now before I get into college so I'll have experiance before I take my Italian 101 class...\n\nI'm armed with an \n*Italian/English dictionary\n*A cool DVD that helps\n*A fun computer game that practices vocab\n*A book with games and grammar\n*5 CDs I can listen to while going to school\n\nAlso, I was on a plane going home from France last year and a French girl was seated next to me. She had a Harry Potter book in English and had a French/English dictionary at the ready. So, another tip would be to find a familiar book printed in Italian and see if you get through it. Good luck!
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I know this might sound weird, but I'd buy some language learning kits, the ones with tapes or cds and a workbook in them... and then pop the tape in at night while you're sleeping, it helped me out some. Languages are learned best when the person is at a very young age but the older you are the harder it is to learn.
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Learning something this way is really really hard.  The problem with learning a language this way, is that you will memorize the phrases that the tape repeats but you still won't understand the meanings/reason behind the phrases.  This method might work for memorizing the names of the state capitals (for example), but won't help you learn Spanish.\n\nAnyone interested in literature, read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (has strong emphasis on this subject)
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I too missed, for emotional reasons, a lot of the content of my schooling, and like yourself, have thought how nice it would be now, as an adult, to go back and re-attend classes right along side the 6th graders... Unfortunately, such things are generally not permitted (in spite of the taxes I pay to support the schools here, but that's a different story)\nWhat I did instead was devised my own self-educating plan.  I bought a set of encyclopedias and read them at leisure.  SO SO much stuff I either never knew, or missed...  Additionally, I picked up at GED book and started to read it, as in preparing for a high-school equivalency test.   GED isn't easy!, let me tell you!\nStay alert, watch news channels, read newspapers and magazines on current affairs, etc.  Through observation and reading and dialog, you'll get more information than most people around you.\n(With regard to chemistry, math, etc, you may need to hire a tutor or look  for adult-educaton opportunities)
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I had friends who sucked at maths.So far I met 4/5 people who advised us to do the same thing.In maths what you do is that as soon as your taught something new,be sure you understand whats going on,how to do the sum etc.if you still dont know how to do it ,then ask the teacher or anyone who knows how to do the sum.ask them how to do it until your familiar with the procedure.then practice one or two pages.if you forget it then ask again and again till you understand it and go on practising it,even if you have gone to the next topic.\nFor french,see if someone knows how to speak french and speak as much french as posible to that person-you'll learn you're vocab that way.or you could read french story books.I know the verbs are difficult but i guess you have to byheart them\nIf you did'nt understand then mail me what you did'nt understand and i'll explain it better.
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The Pimsleur program is very good. I purchased the Pimsleur Portuguese I program and I thought it was extremely helpful in learning the basics of speaking Portuguese. However, it will not teach you how to write or read it. If you want to learn how to read and write then maybe you can try my approach. Once you have completed the entire program, all 30 lessons, get a dictionary in your target language and start from the very beginning of the program and look up all of the words you hear in the dictionary. Additionally, in order to do verb conjugations, go to the Dictionary.com website, type in the English and have it translate the phrase into the language of your choice. (Ex: I am, You are, He is, She is, We are, They are) Furthermore, write all of this information down in a notebook and review daily. That's what has worked for me so far.
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You're probably in school so this may not work, but seriously if you really want to learn a language inside out, get a one-way ticket to the land where the language is spoken, and make it very hard to get back to where you originated from.  You will learn the language from the ground up, like children do.  "I'm hungry!" "How much does this cost?""Where's the bathroom?""How do you say...?" It's humbling to always be asking and learning.  Sometimes you have to say a word or a phrase over and over before you get it.  Try not to associate with English speakers, because it is easy to get lazy and just fall back on your native language.  Living in a country you learn the accent and the slang--more authentic.\nComo sta lei? Multo bene?  I learned that through language tapes--and that is about all I learned.  I learned Spanish by living in South America for two years.  I am fluent in Spanish.  So much depends on your motives for learning a language.  If it's just to get a "C" and get a language requirement out of the way, it's going to be different than if you are planning to go to Italy this summer and you really want to see the sights and taste the real authentic food  and meet people your age.  Usually if they see you are attempting to speak their language and not expecting THEM to automatically speak English to you, you will find most people are remarkably helpful.  I did learn some French in high school using conventional methods--so that does work--but it's that principle of the more you put into it, the more you'll get out of it. Flash cards, writing vocabulary out over and over, listening to tapes, watching films--you can even listen to radio from Italy on Internet.  Go to an Italian restaurant and try your Italian on the waiters and waitresses. If you can find a student from Italy trying to learn English, you can help each other, and by listening to the way they put sentences together in English, it will give you insights into Italian grammar--because it is not the same, as you know, as English.  Your choice: get a C or travel the sea.  <smile> .  &8^ } 3\nCiao,\n-Spec
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learn 2 spell two first lol...i was married to a french woman for 12 years i learned from listening to her and her family speak to each other.but the tapes you can buy in the store i pick up on them faster because i already knew how to talk some french. so buy some software or tapes and listen to them when youre driveing. also on cable there a program called french in action. i still see it on tv so i know its still on its a very usefull show to