When you learn a new language, you are going to make mistakes in speaking it. I have not found the French to be as forgiving as the Spanish about mistakes I have made, but still I did learn from my errors in French. Once I began to accept every French speaker as an informal French…
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My name is Rosana Hart & I explore what works best when we learn new languages. See my bio for more. Do know that if you buy something after clicking through from here, I may make a commission. That doesn't influence my opinions; as a former librarian, I have a lot of experience in evaluating products.Where can you find the best price for Rocket French? At their website. Here is how you can get the best deal on this program: on the long webpage devoted to describing it, you will see that there are two formats for delivery of Rocket French: Digital download As a physical package of CDs they…
If you listen to French CDs or MP3 files, like Rocket French, as you commute to work, jog, bike, cook or clean, you are getting some good practice without too much effort. If you use Rocket Spanish, for example, you would be listening to short conversations and then repeating the words yourself. Pretty quickly they…
Parlez-vous français? Congratulations! You just spoke your first French phrase. You just asked, “Do you speak French?” Now, that you have overcome that hurdle, you just found yourself emerged in a conversation with another party who is rattling off in French, but you haven’t a clue as to what this person is saying. Once you…
The Twisted Doors, or Les Portes Tordues in French is a lot of fun AND a way to learn some French while enjoying being scared. Written by Dr. Kathie Dior, it’s available at her website thetwisteddoors.com, where you can find out a lot more about this compelling way to read French. It’s compelling because the…
Here is my Rocket French review, to help you decide if it is the best program for you to use to learn French. I like it, for five reasons: [1] It is well organized, teaching you practical phrases immediately. [2] It is interactive in the sense that the bilingual tutors, Marie-Claire and Paul, have you…
When I was a college student in France, I went to Orly airport to pick up my sister, who had flown in from the US to spend the Christmas holidays with me. This was before handy programs like Rocket French were around; it was even before the internet! Anyway, my sister arrived a little late…
French is not English. Well, duh, you knew that! That is why you want to learn it as a foreign language. Okay, so where am I going with that point? If you already speak another language, you probably know already.Maybe you would like to read my page about Rocket French. If you haven’t learned another…
Let’s say that you have decided to learn French, whether with a class or with some French language software. In this article, I just want to encourage you to have fun with it. French shares so many words with English that a lot of vocabulary will come easily, though of course the pronunciation will usually…
