OT-Best way to learn French!

[Disneyfoo]

I have been thinking about properly learning French for a while now and I have decided now is the time to start!.

I have a reasonable understanding of basic French from my GCSE, but that was about 7-8 years ago!. Does anyone have any tips on the best way to learn, I don't really have the time for lessons, so I am thinking of either online or tapes etc. Any help would be great!

 

[joolz1910]

I might have imagined this, but isn't there a Nintendo game called 'French Coach' or something? I recall seeing languages games for French and Spanish.

 

[cap'njack.]

Learn to Speak French

See link above

 

[vettegirl]

Rosetta Stone! I am getting it this week through our military base.

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

The BBC website has a good range of free language courses which include French.

 

[giuly09]

I tried Pimsleur Approach - Learn French in 10 days but gave up after a while (my own fault i can tell) and even if i can't speak a fluent french i can understand more than i did before

 

[tttessa]

Best way to learn any language is through a native speaker - they quite often advertise in libraries... and often will come to you too.

My friend is Italian and runs her own business this way - some people book lessons once a week, or once a fortnight, or if lessons are tricky, she recommends the rosetta stone package with a native speaker top up once a month or so (to ensure pronunciation and syntax are correct).

Tessa

 

[Disneyfoo]

Thanks for all the advice

I am looking into the Rosseta Stone package, and I am going to see if there is a local French speaker to visit every so often. Thanks again, given me some good ideas!

 

[jsandwich]

coffee break french on I-tunes ,its free for the basic stuff and is very good.

 

[Disneyfoo]

coffee break french on I-tunes ,its free for the basic stuff and is very good.

Hmmm, I never thought to check itunes!. Thanks for the tip, I am downloading now!