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wheywhey

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I'm really interested in taking up French again. I took French back in high school cause it was mandatory, I'm fluent in Haitian creole so French came very easy for me, I was acing test and winning awards. When I got to college I decided to put off french and instead study Brazilian Portuguese on Duolingo, that was about 3 years ago, studied Portuguese for a good 6months but once I got a job and started college I had personal time to continue my studies.

I've got a bunch of free time on my hand now so I decided to take French again and try to master it then move on to Portuguese again. Only problem i got know is, what's the best way learn? Duolingo is cool program but I feel like won't become fluent if I used that as my only route, Rosetta Stone is a potential option since it would give me levels 1-5 for fairly decent price $189.99. While studying french I'll definitely be watching movies, shows, etc in french to help me become fluent.

I've only heard of one person learning French from Rosetta Stone and he had a master's degree in Spanish. He said the five levels taught about the same as two semesters of college classes.




Many people love Assimil French (beginner to intermediate) but you may need to start with Assimil Using French (advanced).

Other resources:
Essential French Grammar by Dover (or any short, easy to read grammar book)
GLOSS Languages which has downloadable audio and text. https://gloss.dliflc.edu/
French movies with subtitles - for example, Godzilla 2014 Godzilla
Lingro lingro: The coolest dictionary known to hombre!
ReadLang Readlang - Read, translate and supercharge your vocabulary
Audacity or WorkAudioBook
French In Action Resource: French in Action
 

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Has anyone posted this dudes youtube channel yet?
Dude speaks countless languages and makes a living off of making these videos and teaching other people how to speak different languages.

shyt is impressive.

 

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The hardest part with self-teaching yourself a new language is the motivation to continue studying EVERYDAY, It's much less stressful when you're taking courses in school you know you have to attend.

I been using Duolingo for French for the past month or so, in that timespan I pretty much reached the level I was at when I graduated high school. Going to continue but that motivation's not really there. Think I may pick up one of those programs, that was being talked about in the previous pages.

I'm four years out of high school now, looking back now, if I had continued to work on my French instead of picking up Portuguese immediately after HS, my french would have been nearly perfect and I would have been in my early stages of Portuguese now smh.

Instead I'm back to square one on both. :martin:
 

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The hardest part with self-teaching yourself a new language is the motivation to continue studying EVERYDAY, It's much less stressful when you're taking courses in school you know you have to attend.

I been using Duolingo for French for the past month or so, in that timespan I pretty much reached the level I was at when I graduated high school. Going to continue but that motivation's not really there. Think I may pick up one of those programs, that was being talked about in the previous pages.

I'm four years out of high school now, looking back now, if I had continued to work on my French instead of picking up Portuguese immediately after HS, my french would have been nearly perfect and I would have been in my early stages of Portuguese now smh.

Instead I'm back to square one on both. :martin:

Ok
 

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The hardest part with self-teaching yourself a new language is the motivation to continue studying EVERYDAY, It's much less stressful when you're taking courses in school you know you have to attend.

I been using Duolingo for French for the past month or so, in that timespan I pretty much reached the level I was at when I graduated high school. Going to continue but that motivation's not really there. Think I may pick up one of those programs, that was being talked about in the previous pages.

I'm four years out of high school now, looking back now, if I had continued to work on my French instead of picking up Portuguese immediately after HS, my french would have been nearly perfect and I would have been in my early stages of Portuguese now smh.

Instead I'm back to square one on both. :martin:
Yeah motivation or necessity is the key to learn languages IMO
 

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The hardest part with self-teaching yourself a new language is the motivation to continue studying EVERYDAY, It's much less stressful when you're taking courses in school you know you have to attend.

I been using Duolingo for French for the past month or so, in that timespan I pretty much reached the level I was at when I graduated high school. Going to continue but that motivation's not really there. Think I may pick up one of those programs, that was being talked about in the previous pages.

I'm four years out of high school now, looking back now, if I had continued to work on my French instead of picking up Portuguese immediately after HS, my french would have been nearly perfect and I would have been in my early stages of Portuguese now smh.

Instead I'm back to square one on both. :martin:

Fica tranquilo ...Portuguese is better anyway :mjgrin:
 
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