wht is the most effective way to learn french.. ?
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Immersion in the language, living in another culture is, hands-down, the best way.  It's also the most disruptive to your life, and few can do it.\n\nIf you're learning on your own, some general tips for learning languages:\n\n1. Look at people's reviews on Amazon to determine what are some of the best courses.\n\n2. Go to the library and check out different types of courses, and see what works for you best.\n\n3. Put aside 30 - 60 minutes per day and study some each day.\n\n4. If you get discouraged, take a couple of days off, but set your next time to study and stick to it. If you go too long (say a week) between study sessions, you'll start forgetting.\n\n5. Go into the experience realizing that you'll make lots of mistakes, don't worry about them and keep going.\n\n6. Try to find someone better than you in the language to speak with. You can't learn to speak a language without speaking it. If you're trying to learn with someone else who is also learning, you'll lead each other into learning errors.
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Try Michel Thomas's audio CDs, He does French, and he is very very good. I'm using it myself, it isn't free, but it is the easiest and best way to learn a language. No memorizing, no homework, no books, no work, just listening.\n\nCe Bonn!
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http://www.jimmyr.com/learninglanguages.php\n\nUse the yahoo chat rooms. Kinda annoying seeing people trying to solicite free tutors, but always someone willing to help. There's a french chat room there too.
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try to learn french but buying a cd of french and it will learn you how to speak french easily or there is a better way which is you can buy a book with the CD called Pimsleurs speak adn read essentional french you hear it from the Pc and read the book when they are needed.\nhave a nice learning !!!!!!!!! :)
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Hey, I learn French too! The best way is to read as much as you can. Just like you did with Chinese! :o) Just like all children have to do... It may be difficult, but it is by far the best. \nTry getting a newspaper/looking at the news on line everyday and just doing a little bit each day. \nGood luck! \n\nSalut! Moi, j'apprends le francais aussi! Le meilleur facon, c'est de lire aussi plus que possible. Exactement comme vous l'avez fait avec le chinois! Il es peut-etre difficile - mais c'est vraiment le meillieur.\nEssayez de acheter un journal quotidien, ou de lire les infos online et faites un petit peu chaque journee! \nBon courage!
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The most effective way is to practice with a fluent Spanish speaker.  I remember when I was learning in school, I surrounded myself with Spanish speakers so that I could practice. Also, Michel Thomas has a program that's supposed to be good.
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Friend,\nThe best way to learn any language  is to communicate that languange with other people ( who knows that langunage better then you) as much as you can after getting the  necessary/basic knowledge for the same. And expend your vocabulary quota means learn a few new words with thier correct meanings and uses on regular basis.\nGOOD LUCK.
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hey!\n\nIt really isn't that difficult, the grammar will eventually come to you easily, and then after that it's just a matter of vocabulary. The more vocab you learn, the better you will be. It's as simple as that..\n\nI drastically improved my french by reading newspapers and news magazines..every time you find a new word, look it up..when you come across it again you will feel really smug that u know it..and that is exactly how you remember it...\n\nanyway, i hope this helps..\n\ngood luck! bisous x
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Any book in French that interests you is good for learning French.  The best way to learn is through exposure, so if you're motivated to read something go for it.  It doesn't matter if it's classical litterature or comic books.  You just need to read, read, and read.
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Total Immersion!\n\nThe best way to learn a foreign language, as most people will tell you is to live in the country where the language is primarily spoken.\n\nIf that's not possible then you just need to be creative and find other ways to immerse yourself in the language. For example:\n\n - Get a subscription to a foreign news publication.\n\n - Use yahoo's foreign language search engines instead of the English ones. (e.g. http://www.yahoo.fr or http://www.yahoo.es)\n\n - Buy a pack of Post-It-Notes, write a foreign word on it and stick it to the object to which it refers (e.g. das fenster on the window)\n\n - Invade foreign chat rooms - if only to see how natives chat to each other, you can join in when you start to feel confident.\n\n - Listen to foreign radio stations. This is even easier now, with many radio stations broadcasting on the internet. (Check out http://www.radiotower.com/)\n\n - Watch DVD's in different languages (Lot's of your favourite DVD's will have the option to watch the movie dubbed in a variety languages.) I recommend watching 'Die Hard' in Spanish!\n\n - Watch foreign TV broadcasts. Again, this is readily available on the internet (Try http://wwitv.com/portal.htm)\n\nOf couse you still need to learn the basics. I recommend buying language software, and books to get you started. However, lessons are also readily available on the internet for free if you know where to look. Check out http://www.about.com and http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ Both of which are very good for beginners!\n\nGood Luck!
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Try about.com .. they have information about nearly everything. I use it as a reference for French. Or you could buy one of those language learning CD's, but those are expensive. One easy way to practice is to talk here, like people said, or to get a penpal who speaks English and write back and forth..maybe one who speaks your language. You'll both benefit that way. Good luck : )
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If you really want to send a readable message to someone in French, then get person to translate for you.  If you simply wanted to read something that was written in French, then you can struggle with computerized translation guides.\n\nYou see, these computerized systems do a very poor job of creating readable French from what you wrote in English.
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go to the BBC home page, great easy tutorials. Swich your yahoo to www.yahoo.fr to force your self to use your french a lot
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Have a French girl friend who also knows English, or have a servant boy who knows both English and French. But to get the second choice is not so easy. Best way to learn any language is first to learn how to speak and then the grammar etc.
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I took the easy way, and went to the country to learn the language. When I say the easy way, it has a double meaning. Anyway, I learned French in the USA, in highschool, and I can give you some tips. \n\nPractice as much as you can. A computer program is a good thing to learn vocabulary. Use online translators, too, but don't get caught up with them for translating sentances or big texts -- because they wont do you any good. Read a verb book, and start to learn your verbs, because once you know the basic conjugations for verbs, you'll be able to conjugate any very you want to. \n\nTo be able to retain everything you learn, you need to practice. I've been speaking French for 5 years now (I went and lived in Paris for 6 months and when I left, I spoke flawlessly). Now that I have been speaking Spanish for 8 months, I find it hard to speak french, and some spanish words come out. That's because I have been so focused on Spanish and I haven't put to practice my French in a while.  \n\nIf you know words in Spanish, try to think of things when you look around your room, and tell the object to yourself in Spanish. Like others said, watch TV, movies, listen to music, anything to let your ear hear spanish. You're only going to learn if you look up the words that you don't know, because if you're listening to spanish all day and not relating a word to english (or any other language you know) you wont learn.\n\nIt's fun to learn another language once you learn the first. It's easier, like everyone says, because you do things better from when you learned your first language. I worked harder learning spanish, maybe it's because I am older (well I am 20 years old) but I just know how things work. \n\nTake your time and the language will come. Don't make it feel like a chore because it's not. It should be fun learning another language... because so many people in the USA only speak one language, already you're showing interest in other cultures, wanting to learn about another way of communicating -- it's great.\n\nI dont know if you want to speak Spain spanish, Mexican spanish, or Argentine Spanish (what I speak) but go to www.clarin.com. It's Buenos Aires' newspaper online. Print a small paragraph and highlight all the words you dont know. Honestly, it takes time, but it helps. Then you can try reading something else, after learning the highlighted words, and you'll be amazed how much more you'll understand.\n\nTo memorize, you have to practice, practice, practice. I hope this helps a little. Preguntame si necesitas ayuda! Que disfrutes!
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http://www.frenchtutorial.com/\nhttp://www.frenchassistant.com/default.asp\nhttp://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
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copy a few passages from the languange that u want to learn\nevery day.any words that u don't know immediately see in the dictionary.learn the grammar as well as the pronounciation...just a tip,depends to the person hardwork...