How long does it take to learn French?
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How much do you want to know?\n\nUsually by one year you should have knowledge of some basic French. By two or three years you should be able to write and read in it well.  If you're surrounded by French people, you should learn French faster. \n\nHowever, learning French is a lifelong process... this goes for any language.
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it will take about15 days to learn everything thoroughly.so time wise you seem to be all right.
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Do you just want to speak and understand Japanese, or do you want to read and write Japanese as well? \n\nReading and writing Japanese can take about three years and is very hard since it's unrelated to any other language and since it uses pictograms instead of a plain alphabet. You probably won't be able to learn it alone. You should visit your Japanese Cultural Center or Japanese Embassy. \n\nIf you just want to speak and understand it and you want to work on your own, then the very best source you can find is Hugo's Japanese In Three Months (http://www.amazon.com/Hugo-Language-Course-Japanese-Cassettes/dp/0789435845/sr=8-1/qid=1163238970/ref=sr_1_1/103-2517153-8535065?ie=UTF8&s=books). Listening to the tapes and reading the book carefully about an hour a day, you will know the basics very well after three months. If you work for two or three hours a day, you could be done in six or seven weeks. The Hugo Method helped me learn basic French two years ago, and this year I'm going to use it as an introduction to German. I'd put in a good word for it for anybody. It's the best.
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The best way is not to take classes but to immerse yourself in the language.\n\nSee if you can get an exchange program where you go to an english speaking country for at least 6 months.  If you are immersed in the language at the same time you're studying it you'll become a much better speaker of the language.\n\nIf you're coming to the states avoid Alabama (my french teacher was born in France and moved to Alabama when he was 7, it was hell).
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Time depend on the following :\n1- Your age,ability,memory & studying hours per day .\n2- Teatcher cleverness and his tools for exeplanation .\n3- How far is the new language from your mothertongue .\n   You can learn new language basics in few weeks .\n        Good luck .
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Long enough to learn how to spell.
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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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No.\nFrench is actually one of the easiest languages to learn for an English speaker. The pronounciation is the really hard bit, you will have to listen a lot, may be get advice from a competent native speaker, but persistent practice makes perfect, not only in French.
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Buy a book. You can learn it at home. Probably takes about 2 months, if youre interested.
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Keep up what you're doing.  It takes quite some time.  When you are an intermediate learner (about 3rd,4th year high school, or late 2nd year university) yo could benefit from moving to a French-speaking area.  (Quebec or  Montreal might be easier for a US person.)  Once you can even half-way read French, read.  Read children's books, baby books, magazines, websites (yahoo.fr, insolite is usually interesting.  It has weird stuff).  Don't worry about what you don't understand.  Don't both with the dictionary.  Just read.  I know that there are podcasts in French and that some French newspapers (le monde) have spoken interviews on the computer.  Listen to what you're interested.  You might also want to download or buy French CDs of the type of music you like and listen to them over and over until they get in your head.\nI took 1 year in highs school, minored in college, listened to this one French record album 17 zillion times, fell in love with the book "the Little Prince" in French, started teaching it...and eventually I can open my mouth and let French fall out--but this is a loooooooong process.
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Learn to speak French.
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Most ESL learners will take about 7 years to become fluent. That doesn't mean you won't be able to speak. 7 years is referring to learning not just communication english (asking for directions, talking with english friends) but academic english. You should go to an place where you are forced to speak english. The U.S. is probably a good choice because most people here only speak english. The only way to really increase is force yourself to use it.
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Language Acquisition is not an easy process. Learning a new language is easy if the new language is from the same linguistic family, but learning English is going to be difficult if the first language of the speaker is Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi or even Arabic. But if the learner is introduced to a new language in the childhood then things are better, you won't be able to learn a language in 2 months, learning a language is not a joke. You might be able understand and speak few words but proficiency is not possible.
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Hi,  One of my clients is traveling to China for employment I will pass your email along to him...Thanks then\n\nI am traveling to Paris in about 6 months and am studying French...seems easier than Chech....\n\nI feel everyone needs to at least learn some of the basic language to make the experience more enjoyable. ..:)
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Whatever your level of education in the language, the first thing you should do to help your little brother learn french is to pay attention to him for at least fifteen minutes at the days he has french at school. Ask him to bring you his book and you can see what he is learning. Since you may have passed that stage before as him certain questions like Cat Chat. If your pronounciation is not good. Get flash cards and let him write the words next to the picture. Sit with him to listen to adorable programmes such as Dora at 7am weekdays and or 8am on the weekends. I\nfind that children learn much better with support from someone else no matter much the helper knows. Of course its even greater if you  know a lot.
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I have a degree in French, a B.A., and a minor in Spanish. They are similar in the syntactical sense of the Romance language construction.  All five of the Romance languages are similarly constructed.  What I find interesting about French has to do with my Cajun French ancestry in Louisiana and the musical flow of the language.  It's such a beautiful experience to speak and listen in French.  Yet, it is a very difficult language to use for an FSL speaker (French as a Second Language) at first.  But, then that very issue became the compelling impulse for me to continue learning it.  Like English, it is a life long experience.  But, there was a threshold that I crossed when I started to study French as conversation while studying French literature, etc..  That threshold, I discovered, was the doorway that only opens up to the French language scholar when s/he realizes that part of the musical experience of French requires a precision in the use of one's tongue, mouth, cheek and throat muscles that the other languages did not seem to require (I never experienced this problem with Spanish or Italian; even in German, though German is more gutteral than the others).  For instance, the use of the Trill in French is extremely difficult to accomplish consistently when these muscles are not used so extensively in the other Romance languages, English certainly included.  Think about my being from the South with a Southern drawl and trying to use muscles my face has never used, ever, ever as we slide words out of our mouths using as little energy (and as few facial muscles) as possible.  Until I realized I needed to train these muscles to do things they had never done before, I could not speak or think in French, but when this aspect was revealed to me by a Canadian French teacher I had in college, it changed everything for me.  \n\nOn top of that, my knowledge of French made me able to at least understand the other languages if they are spoken slowly and I know the context of the conversation or the reading.  I really believe that French is the key to understanding the other languages of European descent.  I hope it is clear that I am not saying any of them is better than the others.  When you say it was very hard but you liked it made me think that since you have a family connection to the Romance languages that you might be going through the same thing I did when I studied French.  You might be just at that doorway where I was when, once opened, I gained the crucial knowledge about the language that revealed the essence of the difficulty in learning it.\n\nHope this helps.\n\nutopianwizard/CC Ryder
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listen to someone else speak it, buy a tape, find a station or movie in french... something that really helped me was watching subtitled movies.  i had a hard time learning french too, and the best way to learn is to always hear it and try to understand what your hearing.  even if at first you only understand a word or two, or just pick out something and are like, hey! i know that word!  the rest tends to fall into place.  as for things like learning to conjugate verbs and what not... i'm afraid my dear, you might just have to study ;)  haha.. but yeah, subtitled movies!!  i highly recommend!  good luck!