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So I’m trying to learn French. I began learning it in school in year 3 but I remember almost nothing. Over the past year I’ve been in secondary school I can still barely speak French. I barely even know where to start since school made it so I know how to talk about my family in the least human sounding way possible but I barely understand even the top ten most used verbs. Anyone know where to start? I’m around early A1 if that helps
Trying(and failing) to learn French
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As a native french speaker, the advice from the other comment sounded good. Since you're only at early A1 maybe focus on basic vocabulary for now, until you have a few hundred words down. Then you can start VERY BASIC grammar. French has tons of cases, many of which are rarely used in daily conversation, so try not to get overwhelmed lol. Try reading simple stories (like Little Red Riding Hood) in french and stopping at each word until you can understand the whole story. Rinse and repeat with a different story. If you want you can spice things up by doing the same thing with songs, movies, or tv shows. Warning: It will likely be very boring and certainly tedious in the beginning months. The number one thing in learning any language is repetition and diligence, so try to regularly practice. It will be months before you see real progress, but it will be incredibly rewarding when you reach milestones (memorizing 100 words, then 200, then 500, then 1000 etc., memorizing conjugation patterns, getting through an entire story and understanding it). Or at least I think it will be rewarding, lol. I'm learning croatian and although it's REALLY slow, taking the time to congratulate myself on my current progress is really motivating. Good luck with learning french!
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from things i read : I used a certain vocabulary app and reviewed the vocabulary over and over on apps like Memrise. If I had things that were tough when listening, I would listen over and over until it got easier. Focus on easy things and hone and hone your skills with the basics until you’re extremely solid, then advance, but always review as much as you can. Don’t try to blindly advance. In my experience practicing over and over what you’ve learned whether it comes to listening, movies, songs, that’s all helpful. I also did things like translated a bunch of French songs into English and wrote notes and converted them into PDFs I found that helpful, and I listened to many of them over and over. The French have a saying ” C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron. “ ” It's by forging that one becomes a blacksmith. “ Basically, repeat many of the same things and then advance, and then go back. Advance. It’s not as much quantity as possible, but comprehensible input, so if you’re struggling spend more time with certain things you haven’t spent enough time on.