Practical Suggestions On Speaking French

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Do you want to speak French as you speak English? If it is possible indeed? If I say you can do that, you may not believe; if I say you cannot do it, I am telling you the truth. What's the meaning? Sometimes you can speak as the speakers do, sometimes you cannot. If you work hard with practical measures, no doubt you will achieve that aim finally; if you don't work hard, you will be just like everybody else who can only speak some simple things. And what's your choice then?

I suppose you choose the first way. As with learning French, you shall not always hold the fluke that you will finish this task in several months. In fact, people can really learn to speak French perfectly in months, but the condition is that you are all surrounded by the French people all the time, which means you are in France. Can you do that? Most learners cannot afford this. Thus I think I should show you some down-to-earth measures. The first one is preparing French dictation for yourself.

No wonder, you must have done this work many years before when you were a little child in primary school. This is not a joke and I am seriously telling ...
... you this idea. First, you need to scan the French letters for some time and make sure that you have learned them all, then do the dictation work. Definitely you don't have to do this all the time in your spare time. What I mean is that you can just have a dictation of 30 minutes in a day of a week, that's OK! Too much work once at a time will make you suffer and your motive will subside then. Certainly if you have Rosetta Stone French to assist you, that's better. But you see, you probably cannot do the letter-dictation job with this software. I mean you can use it to help you when you learn the French words. It is an amazing one to promote your understanding about words!

Next you should find the native speakers to conduct your speaking. Using some language learning software or applying your won wise ideas, you will learn how to speak French basically, but you need practice to internalize your French. Why can you speak English as fluently as you think? It is the truth that you have made it internalized in you. Now do the same thing please! Speaking with the natives must be one of the best choices you can find. I suggest you get online and talk with those who have Facebook, Google or Skype accounts. Probably you can just type French words with your partners in the beginning. But you should continue doing this and you will get promotion. Using the video camera on such media, you will be able to chat with the native French speakers. Certainly if you can locate those nearby your house, you should go to them as regularly as you can afford. Speaking with the natives, you should use the things you have learned from the Language Learning Software or your instructor. In the beginning you had better speak slowly so that you can ensure that everything you speak is grammatically correct, at least your pronunciation should be understandable.

The last point I should show you is that you need to gradually establish the sense of French. When speaking English, you never think about vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure. Why? Yeah, I said in the third paragraph that this language has been internalized by you. Now I mean you should establish this feeling for you. The French way of thinking must differ largely from the English way. Now it is your time to do so! Don't think it is too hard for you to finish! You can do it and your will power will help you out of one bog after another.