Salut Youtube today you are going to come with me and we're gonna learn
French fast! I'm actually here with my French
professor Aurélie and we've come up together with an amazing plan which is
how to learn French super quickly because in the next three months I need
to up my level of French a lot because I'm going to be passing my DELF B2 exam
if you're actually looking for a French professor in Paris or anywhere in the
world I definitely recommend orally because she actually specializes in
French courses online as well. You can find me on my website which is called
Parisoclock.com you can find all the info there. Sharing my love for French and the
French culture is a passion. I myself love languages I've been living in
Mexico Germany and the u.s. so I really love learning a new language and helping
people who are also passionate about languages so I'll be happy to help.
It has just been so useful to have things fall into place and it's made a huge
difference so I can definitely 10 out of 10 would recommend so without further
ado let's get into the video which has our hacks or our tricks to learn French
as quickly as possible from 0 up to conversational and strong intermediate
within six months if you're living outside of France and as quickly as
three months if you're living already in a french-speaking country
So we've been working on a concept of how to place a little bit of French in
your everyday life we truly believe that we have 15 hours a week you will be able
to improve your French so 15 hours a week my sounds like a lot of time it
sounds like a lot but we have some really good tricks that will definitely
help you the first thing that you could definitely do is to put some French in
your daily habits by listening to podcasts it's about taking those rituals
that already exist. We assume that 30 minutes per day in the morning you're
either doing some sport or you're listening to music or something while
you're getting ready in the morning or you're on your way to work or school
whatever it is but we assume you have 30 minutes in the morning there are some
very good podcasts in French so it's on your phone you put your headphones and
you're ready to go. So we have some recommendations, so actual podcasts to
learn French the first one is coffee break French and
this is a podcast where they actually take someone who speaks no French at
all and the first season is about teaching her all of the basics and so
you'll learn along with her and then you've got season 2 3 & 4 which become
more and more advanced then we also recommend listening to podcasts for
enjoyment on topics that you're actually passionate about and I'm gonna put a
link down in the description box below with a list of 30 podcast ideas to get
you started
The second thing that you can do is try to think about what you like to do in your
free time in the evening things that you would normally do maybe you like to
watch the series maybe you like to watch a movie maybe you like to watch some
YouTube videos things that you would normally do and try to do this in French
for instance I am really interested in in health and food in in veganism so
right now I'm watching videos about this topic doing it in another language of
course it is a way to practice this language so find a particular theme
that you're really interested in that you're passionate about that you want to
learn more about and try to find videos in French. Exactly a lot of the youtubers
out there subtitle their videos for example even me I do all of my videos
subtitled in English and in French we'll put some ideas for youtubers to check
out Netflix it's pretty easy you just have to switch the language to French
you can put the subtitles either in English or in French depending on your
level think about your other rituals, do you watch the news every evening? Why not
watching the global news in French? And you know do you like to listen to music
while you're cooking in the evening maybe? You could change it to French
music and again we'll link down in the description box below some nice French
music that you can start listening to. All of these things add up. We say that
you can find easily one hour per week night you know Monday to Friday to be
able to integrate French into your daily routine so that's another five hours on
the counter
Another idea to make things really stick is to play with these kind of
applications that we have available to us so what I would recommend is to take
something like Duolingo or Babbel and to do it 15 minutes a day seven days a week
so where do you find those magical 15 minutes because we're all very time poor
well what I would do is in the morning if I had a coffee break I would take my
coffee by myself and I'll do a little bit of work on my app before going back
to the my desk also something yet you can do on your commute home this kind of
thing I think 15 minutes we can find relatively easily seven days a week so
now let's move on to what you can do at the weekend when you have more time so
something that you could do if you like to watch movies is watch moving French
of course and maybe if you're a beginner you can start with something easy like
for instance a Disney movie if you like Disney movies or anime movies and then
once you've reached a higher level you could switch to a regular movie
something that just came out and that you be wanting to watch anyway. exactly
and this is perfect because I remember what it felt like to be a
beginner I chose films like The Lion King because I knew the storyline off By
heart it's almost like watching a film with no sound and then you just see
what's happening and you know what's gonna happen it's the storyline but you
don't realize but you're actually absorbing a lot of French and a lot of
little words here and there like a puzzle you know bit by bit you'll start
to understand more and more and more
it was gonna come and I'm so sorry you knew it was coming
the French grammar yes its toughest it's complicated but all we're asking for to
add to the counter is two hours per week it depends on how you like to learn but
this - do you want to explain what this is? - yeah this is like a Bible, even for
French people when we were little at school and we need to learn French
grammar as well that's what we use it's very very well done it's very precise
you find all the rules that you really need to know if you are someone who
enjoys rules and you're someone who likes to write things down and learn
things off by heart and this kind of thing this really is you know as Aurélie
said it's the Bible so you can't do much better than this it's very detailed.
If you're someone like me and you need something very practical I need to do
the exercises I can read you know the rules and it doesn't make sense to me
and then I start doing the exercises and things start to click and so I use this
book which is Grammaire progressive de français and actually you have the
beginner intermediate and advanced levels and it's just there's like one
page of explanation and then it jumps into exercise after exercise after
exercise and you've got the answers there are lots of let's say more
fun books out there like there's this book the frequency dictionary of French
is the most 5000 most frequently used for each words for example if you're
someone who just wants to jump into conversation doesn't really care about
the academic side and just wants to get going something like this might suit you
a little bit more. There are loads of options out there I'll put all of the links to these
down below in the description so you can buy them if you'd like
but there is something I think important would you say as a French professor
about learning the basic yes you cannot go around you need to know the
foundation it's the foundation of your knowledge of French and then you move on
to other fun stuff but the fun stuff needs to be connected to the to the
foundation to the grammar.
At the end of the day it all comes back to speaking to
practicing to just speaking speaking speaking so conversation is really key
here for you to improve your French so this will take just one hour per week
there are tons of things you can do hardly anywhere in the world you will
find a French club you'll be meeting people will be really happy to practice
and speak with you maybe they were gonna exchange let's say Rosie was to join she
will speak English and then the people speak French to her. It's called "Franglish"
I think in Paris, the language exchanges, and it's like speed dating
but language speed dating. And if you don't have access to such a club you
will find tons of websites online some will be free to be an exchange also that
works both for speaking and for writing because there also you know web sites
where you can find French pen pals for example and this kind of thing that's
why we said at the start that this plan will get you up to a conversational level
easily in six months if you're outside of France but if you're in France it's
only three months because you have so many opportunities to speak that it
should all come together a lot quicker. Just one note on the speaking and I know
it's so easy to say and harder to do in reality and I was a huge victim of this
I'm speaking of experience like don't worry about the mistakes honestly it's
like the more mistakes you make the bitter because they learned that much
faster
As you guys can see we've tried to focus really on free things that you can do to
self teach yourself French but I have to say the final thing that will just make
everything fall into place is to have a French professor and what we're talking
about here is 45 minutes to 1 hour per week for maybe 2 to 3 months and you'll
see a world of difference this person will follow your progress
there will identify the points that you need to work on they will adapt their
class to your specific needs with a one-to-one relationship it's really it's
really helpful and it's really I think it goes faster for you to improve
because it's really focused on on what you personally need if you're super
serious about investing and learning French and becoming fluent to the point
where you can converse with native speakers I think it's definitely money
that you won't regret spending you know you've got French professors like Aurélie
who actually don't need to even live in your town you can do it by
Skype and we have no problem paying you know X dollars monthly for our gym
membership, think about it this way you're training your brain to
be able to have a brand new skill and a new language it's like it's like buying
a gym membership for a few months to get nice and fit in French! Cool so I hope
you guys enjoyed this plan I'm going to be doing this plan myself I've got big
goals I'm passing this exam in July this year so I'm gonna do a check-in video in
three months time and we can see how much progress I've made compared to the
video that I filmed in French which I will link up below you can check that
out here and we can do a compare and contrast I'll speak in French during the
video and you tell me if you see the progress that I've made I hope that
helps you guys I hope it inspires you to get really serious about learning your
French and that dream that you want to make your reality if you guys have any
questions if you have any suggestions for the other learners and you know who
are watching this video please put a comment down below we can carry on the
conversation down there and help each other out but
until the next video I'll see you guys next time happy French learning and
à bientôt, bye!
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