If you ever heard a conversation in French, you will definitely want to learn it. There is no one regarding the complexity of this language, does not exist. After all, his study is given differently. Like any other language, French can be learned in a short time. The main thing about the desire and perseverance.

You will be useful:

• Scientific literature;
• French dictionary;
• Films and music in French accompanied by subtitles.

You will need:

Start with ...

Decide how best you perceive and remember information.

You will have to choose from: textbooks, audio and video tutorials.

Track efficient techniques. The more you narrow the circle, the easier it will begin.

Independently training provides that you will write a lot. But do not forget and speak, since communication in the language studied is the best practice.

If you are important to conversational French, pay more attention to the study of vocabulary and pronunciation.

Grammar and spelling can be given the time at the end of the course.

What you need to do daily

Pay attention to the rules

Read on how to properly combine nouns and other parts of speech. You have to study 3 forms of verbs, without this knowledge you will always talk with errors.

For example, in English, we say the guest room, and in French it will be better - a guest room.

Pronunciation is very important for the French. He needs to pay a lot of attention.

Since writing and pronunciation of quite unlike each other. For example, the vowel "OI" is pronounced not as "oh" or "oi", but sounds like "UA".

Read a lot and write in french

In order to remember the words faster, you need to register them several times, and the best page. This will save them faster in memory.

For reading, use books for children, they will launch a good start.

Another option is to choose your favorite book in French. It will interest you and will allow not so much to sit with the dictionary, because you already know what they say there.

Do not take complex books. After all, if it seems to you that you do not understand anything, you can lose interest in learning a language.

You can also keep your diary on the language of interest. Try to write offers. After some time, you will notice your progress.

French audio recordings

If you are doing a charge in the mornings, turn on the lesson with a trainer in French.

This will be interesting for you and using the shown exercises, it will be easier for you to understand what it is said. At the same time, do not forget to remember the words, and then watch their exact designation in the dictionary.

Love music - turn on French performers, after listening to see the lyrics with translation and write strangers. Music will also help you memorize pronunciation.

When watching movies, use subtitles. It will help you learn how to write words that pronounce the actors.

Talk as often as possible

Without the practice of speaking, you are far away. Try to talk as much as possible. You can just tell your friend as it will be in French or another word.

If you talk to him in Skype, ask him to correct your pronunciation. It will enable you to understand your mistakes and correct in the future.

Without practicing nowhere

• Highlight a certain amount of time you dedicate practice.
• Try to engage every day.
• You can perform different tasks. On a day, this can be exercises for grammar, and in the other - checking vocabulary.
• Try to configure any social network to French and sfish.
• Translate the use of the phone will also be a good option.

This material was sent to us by our regular reader Sanzhar Surshanov (his twitter @sanzhars), which shared very interesting ways to learn a new language for you.

Since the beginning of this year, I started exploring French. I do it with the help of English, since I started to keep English confidently, I can say I found the key to numerous Internet resources.

Below I want to list and describe how I learning French:

1. Duolingo.

The site founded Captcha and Recaptcha, students of the University of Carnegie Melon. By the way, each time Introducing Recaptcha, you help the digitization of thousands of old books. The main idea is that people simultaneously learned languages, translated the Internet to different languages.

All material is divided into different categories.

After you finish the exercises, you will be given to the translation of real material taken from the Internet. First, simple sentences, as learning more difficult. Transfering proposals You strengthen your knowledge and help translate web pages. You can also look at the translations of other users.

Exercises include text transfers, speaking, listening. As such, there is no pass on the grammar.

In addition to French, you can learn - Spanish, German, English, Italian and Portuguese.

Audio lessons pass like this: 2 students come to him who do not know French. It turns out, you become the 3rd student. Michel leads a conversation with students and so they learn the language. He explains the difference between English and French, first tells about new words, then asks to translate from English to French.

The main difference and the rule of the method of Michel - do not try to memorize words, phrases, etc.

I do not know how to explain, but after the first lesson, at the intuitive level you yourself begin to guess how it will be in the language studied.

I personally really like this method.

3. Memrise.

To replenish the vocabulary stock, I use the Memrise site.

On the site you can find a lot of different courses, you can even learn how the Morse code. I'm learning - Hacking FRENCH.

Studying new words, you "grow flowers." Put seeds, watering, etc.

The main chip is that you create memes for strangers and spend an association with English. I didn't create memes themselves using the creations of other users.

Grow flowers approximately like this: at the beginning you remember the meaning of words, then repeatedly repeat. Click on the correct answer, write the translation yourself, listening to the phrase choose the correct answer from the list. This ends the first part.

After 4-5 hours, the email comes to you a notice that you need to repeat the past. Repeat the above, if you make a mistake in translation, the word goes to repeat. That's so about everything happens.

4. NEWS IN SLOW FRENCH

Thanks Twitter, literally recently found a link to another wonderful resource.

Very cool site for studying French - newsinslowfrench.com/french-for-beg... They have grammar for beginners and News in Slow French for medium

In France, everyone speaks in the most beautiful language of the world - French. Study it and pronounce - one pleasure. At the same time, the complexity of pronunciation, in addition to the notorious rolling "P" for a Russian-speaking person, will not be. All difficulties are consisting in reading written words, where 8 letters can be pronounced as 2. Where to start learning French, if only "Salute" and "Salche La Fam" comes to mind?

The entire process of learning any language is divided into significant blocks or stages that include compulsory exercises and additional classes for expanding the horizons and inciting interest in the country, culture and history. The first stage is always the production of pronunciation, it includes:

• Study of the alphabet, letters and sounds, they transmitted;
• Study of simple single words, as examples to alphabet or for laying a vocabulary;
• Training of perception of sounds for hearing, addictive to French speech through audiobook, music, videos.

The second stage includes the reading and perception of the French words "from the sheet". It is already more difficult here, the process includes the rules of phonetics and spelling. Usually at this stage to listen to speech:

• Performing grammatical exercises on phonetics

  Studying the combinations of letters, the rules for reading individual diephongs or trifththongs. their great many in French;
  Training pronunciation of words and phrases written in the book;
  Collecting the first words in my personal dictionary.

To read, you need to add a word writing, so the third stage is usually a letter consisting of the following additional tasks:

• Training for writing printed and capital letters of the French alphabet;
• Performing in notebooks of exercises aimed at the development of motility and addictive hands to writing French letters;
• Maintaining your own dictionary, where to record the studied words with transcription and translation;
• French spelling, mastering the features of the preparation of proposals and punctuation marks.

After you can write and get basic knowledge about reading individual letters and alphabetic combinations, you can begin the most important stage - conversational speech, building phrases. The conversation is the most difficult moment in any foreign language.

It is necessary to express the thought, collecting all the knowledge gained knowledge about pronunciation, grammar, the construction of proposals. That is why the first 3 stages first come to think relying on visual, mechanical and sound associations, the so-called "anchors". At the final stage, it is already added:

• Adapted literature;
• Audios, video materials with subtitles;
• Personal conversation with other students or representatives of the French-speaking nation - native speakers.

Exercises and methodological literature must be continued to study and master the training gets comprehensive and versatile. If you choose something one, the lessons will become boring and to spur interest is quite difficult. Without a significant goal, to independently explore the French language will be quite difficult.

Who will help you explore French

An independent study of French is a complex and time consuming, it takes at least patience and iron motivation for him, otherwise nothing will happen. It is necessary to spend on classes for 40-60 minutes a day, though be 3 times a week, regularly, without long and frequent passages. Then the result will be noticeable enough. You will speak French in French not in a month or two, as promises advertising some courses, it is about half a year a student is required to start building the first meaningful expressions from scratch.

On the way of becoming the pronunciation, the parsing of grammar and the search for methodical materials it is better to contact a specialist. Yourself view all the courses offered on the Web and choose the desired you will be very difficult and will take a lot of time, and the teacher can prompt correctly and adjust your searches. What options can I choose:

• Ready courses of the full cycle, presented on the network in free or paid access;
• Online exploring courses under the guidance of the teacher;
• Classes in language school - training course;
• Personal training with the teacher;
• The most rigid way is a trip to France for a couple of months with basic knowledge or without such, and learning the language "in the fields".

Any of the listed options can bring good results if there is a desire to learn and motivation. Without them, no teacher will force you to speak.

Resources for exploring French

If you have decided to start learning yourself, without the help of a teacher or with its minimal participation, you can use the World Wide Web, as a source of information and knowledge. For the study of French there are dozens of sites, applications and methodical manuals. 7 most popular ones:

1. lingust.ru - an excellent resource for all levels: from the base to high. Methodical literature, tasks and audio assistants will guide you and prompt how to better build training.
2. le-francais.ru - offers students to learn French with the help of online lessons and on specially designed materials. Popular and useful site for beginners.
3. tapis.com.au is an interesting resource for beginners and those who want to pull up old knowledge. Many interesting materials are audio, video and exercises.
4. podcastfrancaisfacile.com - site with a bunch of a variety of materials in an audio format for listening in your free time. There are information on different topics and sections of educational materials.
5. francaisonline.com proposes to learn the language online with teachers. Comfortable and simply site and additional sections of educational materials for self-study.
6. bescherelle.com allows you to study language in a game form, there are complex and simple games, tasks and rules filed in the form of an interesting game. Suitable for any level, it will be interesting even to children.
7. hosgeldi.com- Resource to replenish the vocabulary stock, suggests regularly studying new words, you can subscribe, and you will receive materials on the mail.

If you are on the type of information perception of the visual, and learning easier while watching video materials, then the following resources for you:

1. Video tutorials from the TV channel Culture on the "Polyglot" system are located on the network at the address of the Culture TC. Here it is possible for 16 lessons to obtain basic knowledge about the pronunciation and grammar of French by a specially developed technique.
2. Website Bonjour.com is needed for beginner students who have decided to master the pronunciation on their own. Here you can find a variety of video materials on the rules of sound of basic words and phrases.
3. Core video rollers in all languages \u200b\u200bof the world - the site of the BBC channel, where you can find scientific programs, interviews, funny and cognitive materials in French. BBC.com.
4. Interview in French with subtitles can be found on the site ina.fr. The material will be enough to master the peculiarities of pronunciation and improve reading speed.
5. Interesting material is represented by the site Baihou.ru in the form of a training series, where all information is served simply and is understandable, there are subtitles to each video.

For maximum immersion in the culture and the daily life of the French, you can join the print and Internet editions of France, viewing national television and listening to local radio stations.

• Television France - France24.com, tivi5mondeplus.com, d8.tv;
  All country radio stations - Radios.Syxy.com;
  French daily newspapers and online version - Le Figaro and Le Nouvel Observateur.

These resources will be enough to diversify boring lessons and exercises, draw a lot of different information about life and situation in the country, to study the features of culture, important milestones in the history and mentality of the French.

1. Learn to enjoy the lessons. The boring juggling of the rules and the monotonous repetition of the same words will not bring the result, because it is necessary to put something else to work. Dilute materials funny videos, reading books, movies, combine a pleasant time and lessons. Find an interesting source and work out the knowledge gained in a personal relaxed conversation.

   

2. Take into French for 30-60 minutes a day. Regular, even short, classes give huge results if they carry them out productively and until the moment they are bought. Ideal time - 40 minutes, of which 10-15 on the repetition of the old material, the rest of the time for new knowledge. Choose the time of the greatest activity of your brain. For someone in the morning, it is easier to learn and remember, someone's owl and new material fit in the head just at night.
3. Do not try to learn everything for 1 sission. It is still possible to sit on the lessons on the first day of studying hours of 4-5 hours, but this volume will quickly bother and will be in a burden. Accordingly, productivity will quickly decrease to zero. Spice the classes on the blocks on the hour and do every day.
4. Get the dictionary. The notebook with the records performs several functions at once: the mechanical memorization of the material passed, words are always at hand and are available for repetition, all the information studied in one place. You can duplicate new words on a separate sheet and attach to a prominent place. You can periodically look from boredom to written and refresh in memory.
5. Repeat the material passed. Take 20-30% of the occupation time for yesterday's topic, and it is better to peck all recorded first time. If you spend a day for 15 minutes on this, then the material does not have to learn again in a couple of months.
6. Read more literature. Reading books expands the horizon, distracts from problems, soothes and helps in study. French authors also worked productively, as in any other country, so there is a material for everyone. On the initial stage It will be necessary to search for adapted literature and read with the dictionary book of your level or higher. With the growth of the vocabulary stock will increase and expand the range of works.
7. Try to talk as often as possible. Without practice, the language does not learn or for six months, not in life. The meaning of learning is to support the dialogue and to communicate with representatives of another country. You can get the opportunity to communicate in special forums, in language schools, on social networks, on trips. At first, communication will be primitive, but with the help of the interlocutor you can find out the sustainable speech speeds, often used in the word dialog, the analogues of standard phrases and much more.
8. Find like-minded people. A person needs to always feed his interests and find strength for further development. It is best to do this, praising the knowledge gained and the evolution of knowledge. In language schools, on forums and among friends, you can find the opportunity to exchange results. Nothing motivates anything like a desire to do better than someone.

   

9. Explore the language complex. Exercises, writing, reading, audio materials, video materials - everything should go bundled. For self-study of French, you need to write a program where all kinds of classes will be harmoniously combined. Then learning will be productive and interesting.
10. Try to learn not separate words, but phrases in the context of everyday conversation. Concepts strongly change significantly depending on the neighborhood. Words, eliminated from context, little relationships have a real speech. Try to learn exactly the phrases to memorize the features of building proposals, the use of individual words, phraseologisms and idioms.
11. Develop a system for promoting success. In classroom with the teacher, this function is evaluated, praise, prizes. For independent study, any incentive events may be suitable. Locked the block - Treat yourself to ice cream, campaigning in the park or a new knottle. Choose pleasant little things for yourself and celebrate little victories. In anticipation of the prize, the boring occupation will be much faster and more productive.

    

12. Do not throw at first difficulties. The most difficult will be 3-6 months, when the first soldered passed, and the material was still studied. Then laziness begin, searching for excuses and the first passes of classes. Find the strength to overcome them, in half a year it will be much simpler, the brain will get used to the portion loads and it will be calmer to perceive new information.

How to learn French yourself?

Summing up, you need to say about motivation. The main thing, want to learn French, materials and courses are freely available online and bookstores. Find on occupations an hour per day and do with pleasure, combining learning to watch movies. Reading books, communication with interesting people. Then the process will be the most productive as possible, without even resorting to the help of teachers and other linguistic specialists.

At all times, it was considered that the more people know the person, the more chances of a promising future. The study of French as a foreign person is (for various reasons) one of the main aspirations of many people. For some, learn French is the need to associate life circumstances, for others - a passion, for the third - just a blue dream. But before everyone is the same as the issue of money investments in this matter. Certified courses - the pleasure is not cheap, but about private classes that can come on the pocket only to units and there is nothing to say. Therefore, let's talk about the independent study of French: methods, methods and means.

Faced with the need or with its own will, start learning French from scratch, it is enough to have a proper level of motivation. For the rest, you will help the presence of a huge number of educational material: appropriate didactic literature, reference books, vocabulary, self-tutorials, etc. All this can be found as in libraries, bookstores, and on the Internet. In addition, there are still video and audio courses, training in foreign languages \u200b\u200bthrough the Skype system, etc. The most important thing is the right approach to planning and organizing classes and a clear distribution of time.

In order to learn French from scratch, the first stage (40-50 lessons) is usually devoted to reading and pronunciation rules. These are basic skills that are extremely important because their mastering affects the ability to read French texts and perceive the French speech.

The next 50-60 lessons focused on adults or adapted for children are accompanied by a number of exercises, audio material and familiarity with texts and tasks to them. At this stage, the basic lexical and grammatical material is mastered, which includes the appropriate texts to consolidate the existing (studied) skills.

It should also be noted that each occupation on average should last 3 hours.

According to the result of these two stages (of course, with perishability and patience) you will be able to lead and maintain a conversation to basic, general-time topics, read in French and understand the general meaning of read. You will be able to understand the texts of the basic and medium difficulty. You can also perceive elementary audio texts and know the basic communication standards.

To help beginners

"Is it possible to learn French yourself?" This question is difficult to give an unequivocal answer. After all, people are different: each person has a certain potential, each has its own degree of motivation, and a few will boast of will. Someone easily sits down for daily classes, and someone is not easy to collect and force themselves to learn a foreign language, performing dozens of exercises every day and memorizing new words and phrases.

To help those who still dared to independently learn French and firmly on their position, you can advise the most common and affordable ways to study, allowing to save not only money, but also time.

The first option: the use of bookmakers (tutorials, phrases, textbooks, etc.), among which are the most popular and suitable:

1. textbook "French. Manuel de Français », Authors - I.N Popova, J.N. Kazakova and G.M. Kovalchuk;
2. tutorial "Starting course of French", Potushanskaya L.L., Kolesnikova N.I., Kotova G.M.
3. the textbook "French language course", author - Gaston Mozhe.

A minus such a way of learning is that a person opens books, turns, running through the first pages, and ... closes. Because it understands that it is almost unrealistic to deal with the material independently or at least consulting a knowledgeable specialist.

More diligent disciples open teaching aids, try to read, memorizing new sounds and memorizing new words, independently write some rules in the notebook and even begin to make the first exercises .... But gradually and they have doubts: "Do I pronounce this or that sound?" "Is such an intonation should be in this phrase?" "Do I read this word?" And many other issues appearing in the process of study.

As a result, some threw this business, while others call for help professionals, recording French courses or hiring tutors.

Second option: try to learn French from scratch using online techniques.

To date, the network presents many resources with a specific thematic orientation. With their help, you can also try to learn French from scratch, and completely free or for a small fee.

An excellent assistant for beginners can be the BBC portal, including the FRENCH section dedicated to the study of French. The section presents a large number of grammar exercises, dictionaries, reference books, weekly newsletter with new lessons, a video course for those who are independently and even open access to radio and FRENCH TV. Each lesson is complemented by detailed comments and audio files necessary for the correct pronunciation.

However, there is one minus: the site is English, so users are preferably posted in English.

An independent study of foreign languages \u200b\u200bis always associated with any difficulties, even with strong motivation and approximate diligence. The complexity is that there is no one to give an objective assessment to your learning. Therefore, there is a risk of erroneous knowledge and skills in a particular aspect. Begin to teach French, as, however, and any other, better under the guidance of a qualified specialist. When the main base is laid, the initial level will be achieved, then you can try to go to an independent study.

Instructions for independent language learning

First of all, special attention should be paid to phonetics. In French, pronunciation is key. Read every day various texts out loud, even if you have a translation unknown. Teach the French speech your speech apparatus, repeating the French words as often as possible. The speed of development of French speech depends on the frequency of training.

To be able to speak French, it is also necessary to understand what they are talking about. Find an opportunity to regularly watch movies and TV shows in French. Better if they are accompanied by subtitles in their native language. Watch carefully for intonation and manner of pronunciation, try to reproduce some of the heard replicas. Learn all your efforts to the voice recorder to listen, you could compare them with the original.

Learn from day to day new words, remember speech turnover and sustainable expressions. Beginners can use the dictionary, a phrasebook, it will help in the development of lexical material. Studying grammar, try to immediately form offers in French without translation into Russian. Start with the phrases, simple offers and gradually try to independently compose complex long offers. Every day it is recommended to learn about ten words.

Using the dictionary, try to translate yourself simple texts, read three or four pages every day. Try not to miss and not postpone training for insignificant reasons, listen and try to translate the lyrics of the songs of French performers. Work for two or three hours a day and fasten the skills, then you can learn French faster.

Check how much your goal is achieved, and how much you managed to increase your level by shifting it from the mark "0" to medium or even advanced (B), it is possible using appropriate testing. Testing can be easily on the Internet. Such checks are also conducted with full-time and corresponding courses of French.

And at the end of another advice: Remember that any language if it is not used in practice, it is considered dead, therefore, having mastered the first aces, try to communicate in writing or verbally with the carriers of the French language, whether the Internet or oral conversations in real Life.