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u/RichMusic81 路 8 pointsr/French

I highly recommend the textbook Easy French Step by Step:

https://www.amazon.com/French-Step-Step-Myrna-Rochester/dp/0071453873

Very affordable, friendly, easy to use, modern and covers pretty much all the essentials.

u/thusly 路 8 pointsr/French

I've recently begun to do the same. I'll list off the resources I've come across, and my thoughts on them.

  • Pimsleur French (Audio)

    Great for learning proper pronunciation alongside some basic grammar and common phrases. I am currently using this as my primary source of spoken French, while learning written aspects from:

  • Easy French Step-by-Step (Book)

    I love this book. I looked through a number of different self-study books, and the pacing/order of this one fits me just right.

  • Rosetta Stone: French (Software)

    This was actually my first attempt at learning French. I gave up after a while due mostly to lack of interest and a lack of perceived progress. The combination of the book and audio systems listed above have made me feel more at ease with the language than this ever did.

    With that said, I've found while studying now that it actually did help me build up a decent vocabulary, and aided a bit with pronunciation. If its price doesn't deter you, I'd suggest considering it as a secondary or tertiary learning tool.

  • Anki (Software)

    This is a free, multi-platform flashcard application. As I've been reading through Easy French Step-by-Step, I've been adding the introduced vocabulary, terms, etc. to "decks" in Anki, which I then study until I have them memorized.

    I break up what I study based on the quizzes in the book. I.e., I add everything up until the book provides a quiz about them. Study, take quiz, continue until next quiz adding the newly learned vocab, terms, rules. It has worked well for me so far.
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Core French Vocabulary (Book)

    The authors of this book analyzed a number of written and spoken sources of French to come up with the top 5,000 words used in French. In the book they're listed by order of appearance (e.g., #1 is "le").

    As the book is already sorted by order of appearance, you can slowly memorize larger chunks, starting from the top, and know that what you're learning is what you are most statistically likely to encounter.

    I program for a living, so I went a bit further and bought the ebook, then wrote a script to pull all the info out for me. I'm now able to practice all sorts of things by filtering the data -- "give me the top 50 verbs that end in -re", for example, to practice conjugation.

  • English Grammar for Students of French (Book)

    I haven't read this book, but it's another one that was repeatedly well recommended as I did my self-study research.

  • Rocket French (Audio & Software)

    From what I've read, this course is somewhat similar to Pimsleur French. However, unlike Pimsleur, of which I was able to find numerous legitimate reviews online, the majority of those I found for Rocket French were astroturfing. They've registered a ton of domains and set up fake reviews of their product. Whether or not it's any good, I don't know, as their decision to do so turned me off from the course.

  • To save myself some writing, I highly recommend you read this blog post:
    La belle in France: Essential French Language Tools

    She covers a number of good resources to aid you in learning French. I'd like to single out http://www.wordreference.com (as well as its forums) though, as it has been a fantastic reference site. Easily the best online English<->French dictionary I have found.

  • Another good roundup post:
    Online Classes.org: The 50 Best Blogs for French Majors & Francophiles

    I hope that list is of some help.
u/The_Holy_Handgrenade 路 5 pointsr/AskReddit

Good! French is pretty easy since most of the vocab is similar, and the grammar is really easy to comprehend. I just quickly skimmed and found these two, Grammar and Vocab. I also recommend trying to think in the language. Set your phone and computer's basic language as french and try to incorporate it into your daily life. Frenchify everything you can to create an immersion environment.


I also recommend watching french tv shows, and movies. Also try to visit there sometime! Once you have a foundation in the language, visiting the country and using it an immersible setting will greatly improve your grasp of the language. Check youtube as well for some good tutorials. Make sure to practice writing in french once you grasp the grammar, and speak it out loud. This will help you cement the grammar into your head as well as practice pronunciation.

Definitely find a pen pal once you feel you're proficient enough, and write and skype with each other. Random people work as well if you don't feel comfortable with a pen pal. This will give you the opportunity to refine the pronunciation as well as have real life practice with it.

You don't have to apply all of these methods, but the more you use the easier the language will come to you. I hope this helps!

u/Mistress_Ella_Black 路 3 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

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I would like this item please Easy French Step-by-Step https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071453873/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_bVOdBbXH7DPM3 and Thank You for the contest!

u/peachikween 路 2 pointsr/GradSchool

I鈥檓 currently teaching myself French for a translation exam as well, and I鈥檝e found this book to be super helpful in teaching me grammar basics, common expressions, and fairly useful vocab. I also like it because it starts giving you reading exercises really early on so it鈥檚 good practice for a translation style exam. Once I have a better grasp on the basics I鈥檒l move up to reading like a high-school level book in my research area, and then to academic articles from there.

Also: don鈥檛 let German intimidate you!! The hardest thing with German for me was that it was my first language that used cases, but since you know Latin you鈥檝e already got that down. Also if you happen to be a history student once you know some German you should get Deutsche Geschichte by Manfred Mai, it introduces a lot of common history/culture vocab in context and was super useful to me when I was learning. Good luck! :)

u/cheapshot 路 1 pointr/French

I'm hearing this too.
Additionally, such was pointed out to me in the first few pages of this textbook

u/electric_monk 路 1 pointr/French

i torrented a copy years ago when i first learned. Its no better than any other electronic resource, including free ones.

Rosetta were one of the earlier decent language softwares around in the 90s. that justified a high price at the time. its really not worth it nowadays. I think the only way they are still making money is by historical reputation.

Start with Duolingo, listen to lists of french music, and get a text book like this one which excellent and save your money.

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