Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Bonjour et bienvenue!
Nous pouvons t'aider .

Hmmm more than I can say atm...and I'm going to fast track the entire A-level next year in an attempt to get into uni. Quite frankly, muss ich mein Scheisse erledigen!

Bonjour! Merci beaucoup, tu est tres genereux! je ne comprends pas comment on à apprendre la grammaire dans francais. il y a beaucoup des elements de memoriser. En plus je ne peux pas parler bien meme si je apprends cette langue pour 6 annees!!!

c'est tres difficile pour moi!!ou je suis tres stupide XD

I've written an article with some tips for self-teaching languages if anybody's interested. I only started teaching myself Italian this summer.
http://decree900.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/how-to-teach-yourself-a-language-2/
Right now I'm just struggling to maintain my French over the long summer!

Really interesting read.
I've also set about self-teaching myself Italian, with the target of being good GCSE standard by September and I feel I'm making good progress! Been learning for about two weeks now.
I started my learning with grammar - articles and the 4 main tenses. (present, perfect, imperfect and future). Then I downloaded an app with lots of vocab, split into topics and also joined DuoLingo to build vocab and cement grammar. I have notes on my phone to look at when I'm bored and do the same with the app. I'm really enjoying the challenge and it's spurred me on to try it again with Portuguese when I'm finished. I also find a knowledge of Spanish and French helps no end and has made the task a whole lot easier.
Just interesting to see how other learners approach it.

I think I've gone about it in a similar way, starting with articles and the present tense, and looking at pronouns. It definitely helps having experience of learning a language, as you understand how grammar works. Although sometimes I wonder if I should be learning how I was first taught French - learning to say where you live and describing your family etc. first. We'll see how it goes

I haven't heard of DuoLingo, are you finding it useful?

I wonder that too! I had a good grasp of the basic grammar before realising I didn't know numbers days or months!
Yes I like it! There is quite a number of us on here who you use it and enjoy it so you're more than welcome to join us! I find it helps with vocab and some grammar, though I prefer learning the grammar all in one go so use other websites. DuoLingo would explain the grammar as you go along which means you can sometimes be switching between conjugating present tenses etc. But it is good and pretty competitive!

Votre français ici est très bon!
Je suis différent parce que j'aime le grammaire, mais il peut-être dificile! .
C'est le prèmiere chose que j'apprends en apprenant une langue nouvelle!
Tu n'es pas bête!

Okay thanks, I'll take a look later! I found some YouTube videos with numbers and basic phrases, but I think I've forgotten them all already!

Have you started with a syllabus or a textbook or anything like that?


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I found a text book which I've been using, called Da Capo. But mainly I've been looking up grammar points on about.com and this website which I believe L'Evil Fish suggested http://speak7.com/

Sigue...

What do I actually learn from it? Should I be able to read it with ease?

No, book 1 is AS level reading and book 2 is A2 level reading. Read, pick up grammar points, pick up vocabulary relevant to the topics you'll come across in the AS/A2, learn new phrases.

oh merci mon ami mais ne soyez pas decu . Mon ecriture serait bon mais je ne peux pas parler cette langue.
Comment? la grammaire est tres ennuyeuse, non? Quelle etes votre motivation? Je voudrais etre comme toi-meme!

You can say much much more than me! What are you on this time! Good luck with that, even though I can't keep track of what exactly you'll be doing - you change your mind every week!


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Changed mee mind about fast-track

Again? It wouldn't surprise me if you changed it, again!