One Year Later - Lessons From Learning French
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How I learned French, start speaking a language asap, 3 lessons I learned from language acquisition and common mistakes language learners fall into when they are trying to practice speaking their target language asap.
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Not Cliff from Better Than Food book reviews, Not Dark Academia playlists, Not Nathaniel Drew How I learned Italian in a week, Not Productivity tips. This is my tips on how to acquire a language. This is R.C. Waldun 3 lessons I've learned from my first year of French.
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Quel plaisir d’avoir fait cette vidéo avec toi alleeeeeer 🖤 que des bonnes vibes t’es le sang Robin
Sang robin… quel…💀
blood of robin?
@@evan.5967 Bahahaha you killed me. Actually you're right : it means "blood Robin". But it is an expression that means "you're the best" smthing like that so...
@@elabyrm ohh right thank you. phrases in french are so hard to remember for me lol
*allez
When i lived in france for a year with my ex boyfriend , i learned more french by just talking shit than i did in the whole UK education system.
my absolute saving grace with french is that i somehow? sound like a native??? so people instantly assume i’m native and speak to me far too quickly and i’m always having to tell them no stop
now that i live in taiwan and can speak fluent mandarin, and have learned scottish gaelic to conversational level in the past year another tip i want to share is the classic “fake it till you make it”
i learned gaelic almost entirely by using google translate - sending messages to my gaelic speaking friends copy pasted from google translate - and then translating what they sent back until i got a grasp of certain sentences and patterns repeating themselves, then after i became confident with those basic sentences myself because i’d seen them so often, i just started sending voice notes of the sentences back and forth, supplementing with vocabulary.
I did a similar thing with mandarin, but at that time i was already conversing from a couple years of immersion here in a mandarin speaking country
but honestly, i recommend it ! it may sound stupid but it got me over the hurdle of written conversation and also if you make a mistake, you can just blame it on google translate and your partner will just correct you haha
Omg i am in the same French boat as you when you were there. I somehow can pick up accents and intonations extremely easily, so when i speak French the French are like omg you speak French, lovely, and proceed to speak their normal speed without ever switching to English once, and i'm like woawoawoa i have no vocabulary. But it feels good to get this stamp of approval from the French though when my actual level is like A2.
As a French speaking native, I’m really impressed ! You got it bro. Prononciation is on point. Thank you for taking an interest in our language
On peut voir tes efforts and le travail que t’as mis dans ton apprentissage du français. Je viens de découvrir ta chaîne, c’est vraiment une pépite :) !
I am learning kinda french so yeah , wish me luck
@@misrimodi3633 good luck fella
the timing could not be better, i've just decided to (re)start my french journey - a1 - through the refold method.
Sameeeee
same, I had stopped and now restarting as an A2. It feels easier when you're not starting from the complete beginning
Same. Using the refold method for Mandarin Chinese.
How are you doing now?
Refold, lol.
I learned both English and French (once tried Spanish but dropped it after high school) and am currently trying my hand at Korean!! it's going pretty well so far :) 5:15 this is how I successfully learned English!!!! I used to talk to myself in English from a young age and to this day I still do! It's hands down the most effective method in order to acquire a new language
El Español es muy fácil!!
@@zunigaruth1978 Espanol es bien fácil
@@zunigaruth1978 الإسبانية لغة جميلة و تعلمها ممتع لذلك تبدو سهلة 🤗
Wow, your accent is stunning for one year. I was learning french in primary school and right now I remember nothing but I’m very inspired to try again. Merci!
Merci beaucoup, I'm currently have a lack of motivation in french and your video made me feel more confident about that
Bon courage dans ton apprentissage du français ! Tes réflexions et ta curiosité sont très inspirantes :) What's funny is that a lot of what you said about french courses at university also applies for us french people trying to learn english. Speaking to actual native speakers is very different from learning a bunch of rules and vocabulary lists.
Je suis d'accord avec toi sur tous les points que t'as fait dans cette video.
I agree that the study of grammar does not equal proficiency. To truly acquire language, we ought to be exposed to language that we understand and practice it ourselves.
Greetings from a Latin and French student, but Spanish and Arabic major!
Quel plaisir de voir du monde qui apprend le français !
Ça fait vraiment une différence de lire la littérature dans la langue dans laquelle l'oeuvre a été écrite versus une traduction car chaque traducteur y ajoute une touche de «soi». Moi, j'ai appris le français en écoutant des films/vidéos, nouvelles et en lisant des livres par une lecture expansive (sans traduire chaque mot, mais en comprenant le/les mots selon le contexte) j'avais pas le temps d'aller progressivement avec des cours. Toutefois, j'avoue que pour ma prochaine langue étrangère je vais l'apprendre sur la base de communication avec un porteur natif de celle-ci.
this video couldn't come at a better time! I'm going to be entering French 3 this year in high school, but still stutter and am too shy to speak. love the corridor idea too, definitely gonna use these tips to help me. Merci beaucoup! :)
Native speakers who teach or commonly converse with language learners often have a skill set. They grow accustomed to the accents and common errors and can fill in any blanks that may come up while practicing. However, when a language learner comes across someone who is not willing to try to communicate unless they speak absolutely perfectly, it can be immensely upsetting and frustrating. I think this goes for any language and culture. Good luck on your French journey~~
I took french in high school and found the sounds and spelling very confusing because of my dyslexia. Apparently french is really hard for people with dyslexia because it breaks so many rules in english. But I still enjoy it even though the sounds are confusing too me.
I’m dyslexic and learning french as well! Nice to see I’m not the only one haha
Je ne m'attendais vraiment pas à tomber sur une vidéo de toi parlant français. Bravo !
This is probably the realest video on learning french out there. Coming from someone struggling with french for the past 3 years. ;)
Fab! Great tips. I had to chuckle with them and repeating “je suis perdue”. During lockdown, I decided to learn this language and fell in love with it. I started doing just grammar - then I found a few natives to converse with on zoom every week which was the best thing I could have done.
I started learning French a year ago too (after moving to Normandy and then to Bordeaux, where I currently live) and I'd like to gently add a little grain of salt to to this video...
In my experience, grammar is actually important to get the hang of, and this isn't me just grammar policing lol. There are a lot of words in French that sound incredibly similar and grammer helps give clarity to what you're trying to say. (Think of the famous "un ver vert vers un verre vert") It doesn't sound like a big issue, but a lot of older natives simply did not understand me when I didn't use correct grammar. When I started working in a rural grocery shop, everyone (my colleagues, customers etc) would constantly correct my grammar, and my god did that feel so offensive... Until I realised that they even correct each others grammar too. Of course I was able to get by just knowing random vocab, but in my experience it was focusing on my grammar that really started to give me freedom in my French expression. Most kids/teenagers/young adults are a lot more lenient, but I think it's especially important to drill your grammar skills when talking to those people because you may pick up habits that are hard to shake. I am currently working with French teenagers and sometimes I have to distance myself from soaking up their way of talking because it wouldn't be appropriate in some situations. It's easier to learn something right than to unlearn something that's wrong.
Everyone's experience is different, though. I wish I hadn't underestimated grammar when starting out, but that's just my experience. Thank you for the lovely video and bonne chance with your journey! Wishing you & anyone else currently studying this beautiful language all the best:-)
Nah, every single language has words that sound extremely similar. French is absolutely not special in that aspect. However french-speaking people living in France are the only ones that are so obsessed with grammar.
As an example, I'll use my greek friend's experience when they were 14. They had a language trip with their school where they first went to Switzerland, France, then Belgium. She was only learning french for a year, so her french was rusty, yet it was only in France where they rudely corrected her. While the two other countries actually made the effort to understand her/or talked slower.
Also, France is the only french-speaking country (and country) that is so obsessed with the way you pronounce stuff. France is huge, so it only makes sense that it has a variety of accents and slang (it even has another language spoken in its territory, le Breton). Yet I believe that it's the only country that promotes a specific accent (the french accent) that is not spoken naturally by anyone. (and french people will judge you for not having it).
So maybe you've gotten used to everyone being rude and tried to justify it, but pls keep in mind that France is not the only french-speaking country and therefore cannot apply its rules for pronunciation or grammar to everyone (especially since most of them never bothered to learn another language, and do not understand the struggle of learning another one)
I am native from Spanish and I didn't know the rules for femine and masculine 🤦just I speak, that's matter, you don't need grammar to be fluent in a language
Очень хорошо))
Good luck on your learning journey 💛
Man I really love your french accent you nailed it very well
For me speaking is specially hard and frustrating because I'm able to understand most things (mainly written) cause I'm a Portuguese speaker, so a lot is quite similar, but when I comes to speaking I'm not used to the language enough to remember which words to use as I keep going.
Good luck on continuing your journey, it can be quite hard to notice much progress once you get to a more advanced level
Yeah, and for me, I'm not sure if I'm actually learning or just associating with Portuguese, cause the words are quite similar.
I’m French. English speakers might not realize HOW GOOD his accent is. It’s incredible it’s like he has this little Parisian accent and all 😂😂
Awsome vid, thanks for the advice, mate!
I’m actually learning French too, this video is perfect.
@@comprends2138 Secretly. Only a select group of people know about it.
I speak French but I'm learning English
@@angefabricenda560 Interesting, how long have you been learning English?
Great tips, Robin. I learned French for 8 years at school so scared of speaking, but I could read and write pretty okay. Time to start babbling... 😊
T’es l’une des personnes les plus élégantes que j’ai vu sur CZcams avec une façon unique
Perfect grammar might not be necessary in order to communicate verbally. However, knowing grammar rules is essential in order to break that beginner proficiency stage and reach intermediate level and the ability to read/understand native literature. Plus, if you understand grammar rules in your native language, it becomes easier to map the target language grammar. Personally, knowledge of both French and English grammar rules allows me to quickly understand Japanese grammar constructions because it's sometimes similar to French or English and less often to both. I often find myself review French/English grammar in order to compare/contrast with Japanese in order to deepen my understanding.
narrating your life is extremely helpfull! I never had good grades in english at school until my last year because I started saying sum tiny phrases whenever I was doing something that bores me, also reading lyrics from english songs so sing along helped a ton
Learning languages is extremely hard and I have classmates who studied English for 10 years and can barely say anything but to avoid that you need a few things
- determination: You need to be ready to study your ass off because it's gonna be hard and there will be times when you feel like giving up but it's gonna be worth it in the end
Watch movies/ shows in that language: Some people are scared they won't understand every single word which is exactly why you should watch them (subtitles are best choice)
- If you're confident enough you can try to read books or simple comics in that language
- talk to native speakers (as often as possible) to learn slang and proper pronunciation
I can speak 3 languages fluent and I have some experience in this topic so I also want to help and motivate others
Don't give up, you can learn anything :)
How do I find native speakers? I'm not living in the English speaking country. Still, i wanna be fluent in English.
I've been learning French since 3 years, but damn I wish had the enthusiasm that you did. And also this video.
The music is very fitting! Great tips
i'm a highschooler thats taken all the french courses available at my school; its been a little hard trying to figure out how to improve upon the language myself!
I WISH TO SAY THAT I AM WRITING IN UPPER CASE BECAUSE OF MY POOR VISION NOT BECAUSE I AM ANGRY. NOW, YOUR PRONUNCIATION IS EXCELLENT. ALL WHAT YOU SAY IS ALSO TRUE FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE OR ANY OTHER. THIS IS WHAT LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE MEANS!
me, being a russian and hearing you saying literally one word in russian: YEAH FINALLY I FEEL SEEN THANK GOD
People are missing out. I took Russian class. The most amazing culture and such a beautiful language... Russians gave us Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin etc etc..
I have my french exams next week and i havent studied…so i decided instead of studying i just listen to it and cry
Great advice.
You're talking about advanced (oddly, since babies and teenagers learn this way) language learning methods. And it's only considered advanced because adults tend to teach and learn foreign languages in a backwards sort of way.
Peace.
Aconteceu a mesma coisa quando eu fui aprender inglês, ficava com muita vergonha de errar na gramática, fico um pouco ainda, porém consigo conversar.
I love your channel! I watch every video
I'm from Brazil and nowadays I'm learning some English despite don't like the language a lot. This (or that, I don't know) video gives me a little enthusiasm to keep going, so, thank you!
French is probably my next objective.
Oi, Gustavo! Bom ver outros brasileiros nesse canal.
Good look with your English learning, you can do it!
In language i speak and write norwegian and English, just speak Dutch...and i can count in Japanese(failed learning more). But i learned to count in binary on my hands...so yeah. I am a language expert now.
Btw i know Dutch since parents are Dutch. No credit learning it.
Je suis en le niveau intermédiaire a français et je suis très content que je peux voir le vidéo sans regarder a les sous-titres 🥰😁😁
je suis canadienne (hors Québec) et ici il faut que tout le monde apprend le français à l'école, mais la façon de l'enseigner est vraiment bizarre, donc pas beaucoup des gens ici peuvent vraiment parler le français. tu as raison, il y a beaucoup de grammaire et pas assez de pratique oral.
mais après seulement une année d'étude, ton français est vraiment bon ! moi j'étudiais le français pendant dix ans quand j'étais jeune mais je l’ai presque complètement oublié maintenant 😭 bon courage !
your voice is fascinatingggg
Votre accent est excellent, merci beaucoup d'apprendre notre langue, c'est très flatteur. Continuez comme ça 👍
I'm persian and I've learned English as a kid, now I'm learning French and luckily there are a lot of French words in persian and there are a lot of people who can speak French. So i guess it's easier for eastern people to learn French if that makes sense...
You inspired me to take French as my 4th language 😌 thank you for another great video!
Salut, à mon avis le grammaire c'est quand meme assez important :) peut-être c'est plutôt l'apprentissage sans expression orale/immersion qui n'est pas bon.. et c'est souvent le cas pour des gens qui ont appris le francais pendant des années mais pouvaient pas le parler. dans mon apprentissage, je trouve la grammaire très utile. J'habite en France depuis 2 ans et j'ai pas mal bossé sur la grammaire tout d'abord (j'avais un Bescherelle avec moi tout les temps). Apart ça j'écoute et je regarde beaucoup de podcast et serie en francais aussi. Quand j'etais dans des situation où j'ai dû utiliser le francais, les phrases sont sorties comme par magie :D J'étais assez surprise et je me suis rendue compte de l'importance d'apprendre des bases.. Maintenant, il est plus facile de construire à partir des bases, au lieu d'être confus chaque fois que j'entends un structure de phrase que je connais pas
Merci pour le vidéo, j'ai l'amié!
I just recently started getting into learning French and I use Babbel (I love it), but I started using youtube to listen to songs and mini convos because whew the drills get tiring lol but I love it already! and LOL at the cake vs gift part because OMG I just was thinking about those words a few days ago because I was listening to a little audio in French and the whole time I thought they were saying they are going to come up with cake ideas but come to find out it was gift ideas lol. I also agree that the grammar part paralyzes people! you can definitely perfect that while learning everyday talk!
Great tips, Robin! It's so easy to fall into the trap of simply studying and writing in your target language without speaking. But speaking is definitely one of the most important parts of learning a language, especially if you want to make friends with natives or travel to the country!
Your French pronunciation is excellent, by the way! I tried learning French a few years back, but was thrown off by the difficulty of the pronunciation😅
Tu as vraiment une bonne prononciation ! (et c'est un français qui te le dis)
When I switched school, I wanted to learn French but the teachers wouldn’t let me, because they were “to advanced for me and I couldn’t catch up”.
They were at the end of Unit 1
yes yes yes!
The music..👌🏻
7:17 feels like Montreal :)
félicitations on learning french ! i am french and learning swedish at the moment - i feel like most people can be really self conscious of having an accent when speaking in foreign language, but it's entirely normal. learning a new language is an amazing journey and having an accent is part of it. you're trying your best at something that requires a lot of effort, so good job to you ! 💛
+ most people will find your accent lovely and unique anyways so don't be ashamed of it !
I have the same cable knit sweater in the same color-way in women's
Bravo ton français est déjà vraiment pas mal ! Je vois dans les commentaires que je ne suis pas la seule française à te regarder ;) Bonne continuation
Sir, I am eagerly waiting for your course 😄😄😄 am in very excited
Next project in the pipeline. :)
I improved my English exponentially by spending a long time on Tik Tok daily. This is a simple way of learning how real people speak in their daily life. CZcams videos too but they’re usually scripted and not as spontaneous as Tik Tok videos. I have a French degree but I’ve literally forgotten like 70% and now I’m picking it up. Time to get a new Tik Tok account with a French fyp
I am a Bangladeshi. I watch your video.
One of my teachers is learning French. So I am also learning French.
Une abonnée française apprécie cette video ;) Hate d'avoir une vidéo complètement en français
Recently I was thinking that I could learn to read other languages without learning to speak the language. I quickly realized that this is not likely to work, since I would be reading French or whatever and thinking the English equivalent. Forget that, life is too short, and my shelf is full of English books, and English translations. Enough to keep me busy for many years. I could have studied French at school in the 70s, but the part of Canada I grew up in had a very negative view of French people, especially our French speaking prime minister who was out to destroy the country. Besides that, as a teen, I couldn't imagine ever being wealthy enough to travel. Our travel was limited to the distance my father could drive in a day, and have a relative to stay with over night.
J'aime trop t'écouter parler français ❤ tes points sont tellement vrais pour l'apprentissage des langues
bonne continuation 💪🏻
I'm french your's is pretty good for a non native.
I french youtuber "kevin tran" is doing video in english so it is pretty funny
RC , do you think this happens the same with acquiring archaic languages like latin and sanskrit?
You mentioned watching French TV shows to improve your French, which ones would you recommend?
Yesss just what i needed ❤
8:36 she's right... Footballer wise ive seen no one, native in spain speaking English but the germans and dutch speak very good english
Can you tell me what kind of series or movies you watched to learn the language? Thanks!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ton français est très bon mon cher ami, félicitations!
lmao the strange accent part is so relatable. I'm learning German and I have a really thick British accent. So I practically can't pronounce the words with "ch" correctly at all.
I’m starting a French class next week. I’m not sure if I should keep the class or not, why should I learn French and any advice. Thank you
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Hey! What do you think about copywork for teaching yourself how to write?
Mec is probably my favorite French word
Vous parlez Francais maintenant? J'etudier allemand avec duolingo mais je me sens que je voudrais pratiquer avec quelqun pour mieux pratiquer.
Bonne chance!
(hope I didn't butcher it)
Ton français est très bien!
i was just thinking about how i was struggling in french class today
damn the timing couldn't be better
Avez-vous lu "L'étranger et le petit prince" Si vous l'avez fait, combien de temps vous a-t-il fallu pour les lire?
I am trying to learn Russian, this video might be of great help to me!!!!
Как круто, удачи!
@@melvinn7935 Как приятно увидеть русскоязычных зрителей этого молодого человека!
Удачи!! У тебя всё получится!!
@@melvinn7935 Спасибо
@@danakanafina3615 Большое Спасибо, Мой друг. I only know that much, but sure I will learn more.
Also, check out Language Hacking French by Benny Lewis! :)
очень хорошо was so good and cute
Je dois être un de tes seuls abonnés français je crois ! Très bon accent en tout cas :)
Merci! :)))
and i learned french in this month
I've been studying english for 2 years, i'm not fluent but now i wanna learn french because i love that languange but i dont know if it's a good idea to start the french whitout finish the english
i think i'm on the same situation with you but some days ago i've decided to keep learning french no matter what. because starting a new language is not a bad thing if you have reached the level of expressing yourself in the language you have learned before. for example; i went to an english course about 3 years and i think i can speak with someone who's native. maybe not gramatically %100 correct, maybe with an awful accent but i'm sure i can explain myself. so learning a new language is not a dangerous thing. but if i were just a beginner to english, french would be hard as fuck and probably the words would get mixed up
I learnt English before i even started first grade , simply this video is saying those like me who are learning a foreign language should focus on speaking to native speakers instead of …. Book book book 📚 I’ve studied with a tutor for 6 months and I’ve noticed that I can read and write soo well but can’t even construct a Simple sentence! My listening and speaking is soo bad because I’ve been paralysed by SCHOOL/GRAMAR/BOOK , it’s ridiculous because my problem is if I can’t see the words in my head , i can’t understand or say it , but some how I can read and write ✍🏽 like wtf
Your so right about the grammer! I have been learning French for 10 years! And I can't ever speak proper french in public, I can only speak it with myself, because we only focus on stupid grammer
.... merci 😆 love the vid. sad to hear I'll still have an accent T^T
I remember trying to tell someone during class (the unit was donner un conseil) that they should stop eating meat because they wanted to be vegetarian, and i said „Tu veux acheter de la viande“ and like everybody started laughing but i couldn‘t understand why, i should have said „tu veux arrêter manger de la viande“, i had learned the words the other way around, it was so so embarassing
I do that walking and talking gibberish all the time 😂 I didnt realize it was a thing lmao
Please make a video on book recommendations
your accent is so cute omg 😂
So is this an add for Babel?
It's a rant.. In English .. about Babel.
What a great video! Thanks to the author of the channel for this fascinating video! It is interesting to see how people live in other countries! It is very important to know foreign languages on such trips. I would like to recommend to all travelers a practical guide to learning foreign languages by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages". This book contains a lot of useful tips on how to learn a foreign language for tourists, students, entrepreneurs and anyone who needs a foreign language in life. There are a lot of good tips on how to solve problems with the language from beginner to advanced level of language learning. It turns out that the traveler only needs to know a few dialogues and you can easily travel around the world! You don't have to spend a lot of time to fully learn a foreign language, you just need to learn what you can use when you travel. I wish everyone exciting travels!
on my 43rd day :)
Are you from Melbourne?
I always thought the app was called babble because of the tower of Babel