When I asked some of my students what advice and tips they had for others learning French, here’s what they came up with:
- Do a little bit every day (even if you are sitting in your car at the lights why not say aloud the numbers on the car numberplate in front of you and find a French word starting with the letters? Saying numbers aloud will really help speed them up)
- Read the daily emailed newspaper digests and listen to French radio maybe in the car. (You can subscribe free to all sorts of French posts, I particularly like News in French and if you live near Hythe you can get FranceInfo for example very clearly on 105.6FM)
- Listen to French radio anytime you are sitting at the computer (there’s a fairly comprehensive list on wikipedia, France Bleu Nord – local public radio – is available at francebleu.fr/ or listen on 95.5FM to France Bleu Nord Boulogne, 106.2FM to France Bleu Nord Calais)
- 10 minutes of Duolingo each day helps remember vocabulary (Duolingo, Memrise, Tandem. Busuu …)
- Keep going
- Revise!! (it’s not just me saying this then!)
- Quand vous visitez la France – parlez FRANÇAIS (bravo John!)