Learning french - advice?

(Sorry if this is off-topic, I couldn't figure out where to post it!)

I'm looking to learn French outside of college (not working towards a GCSE or A-Level or anything like that, just for the sake of learning). What would be a good way of going about this? I've heard of podcasts and websites etc that help you to learn, does anyone have any experience with them/reccomendations? Would I be best just to buy myself a GCSE revision guide and learn from that?

Any tips would be helpful :smile:

Reply 1

Anatheme

18

So, lol, a lot of useful links if you want to learn French ^^. If you need help for pronunciation or just to correct your work, I'd be happy to help you.

This thread will certainly help you !

Conjugations
Le Conjugueur

Grammar
French Grammar Central
Grammaire française pour tout le monde
Tex's French Grammar (Love this one)
Le Grimoire
La Grammaire Française Interactive

Miscellanous
BBC Language (French)
Français Langue Etrangère
Civilisation Française
Advanced French Vocabulary Lessons
Famous quotes in French

Podcasts to learn French :
French for Beginners
Learn French By Podcast
Learn To Speak French
Frenchpodclass
Podcast français facile

French newspaper online :
Le Monde
Le Figaro
L'Express
Libération
L'Humanité
Métro
Reuters France

French Radio Online
Le Mouv' (Alternative)
Nostalgie (Oldies and lots of French singers)
NRJ (Rap, R'N'B, Pop, Alternative)
Hit West (Rap, R'N'B, Pop, Alternative)
Fun Radio (Rap, R'N'B, Pop, Alternative)
FG DJ Radio (Dance, Electro, Remix - Podcast available for free on iTunes)

Online TV in French :
TV5

Good French movies
Jeux d'Enfants (Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard)
L'Auberge Espagnole (Romain Duris)
Les Poupées Russes (Romain Duris)
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou)
Hell (Sara Forestier, Nicolas Duvauchelle)
Les Choristes (Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Baptiste Maunier)
Le Pianiste (Adrien Brody)
La Vie Est Belle (Roberto Benigni)

Reply 2

ghostories

OP

10

Wow! Thank you so much! That's so helpful :smile:

!

Reply 3

ninaabbey

i would reccommend the e-mail service on about.com for french. this is really good as long as you are prepared to put the work in.

Reply 4

Gooner

14

ghostories

(Sorry if this is off-topic, I couldn't figure out where to post it!)

I'm looking to learn French outside of college (not working towards a GCSE or A-Level or anything like that, just for the sake of learning). What would be a good way of going about this? I've heard of podcasts and websites etc that help you to learn, does anyone have any experience with them/reccomendations? Would I be best just to buy myself a GCSE revision guide and learn from that?

Any tips would be helpful :smile:

It depends on how you learn, but I personally find that writing something down over and over again helps me to learn French and German whereas listening to podcasts really doesn't work for me, but does for others. That said, I've found the Pimsleur Spanish course to be excellent, so if you can get hold of the French version, then learning the language to a good standard should be made much easier! :biggrin:

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