I am a french student in high school. I am able to read it fairly well, but when I try to listen to people speak it I feel like beginner… I don’t understand a word they say! Like if I listen to a french song, I’m lost until I look at the lyrics… Is there any way I can rectify this problem? Or could you recommend some sort of website that would help? I want to be able to travel to a french speaking country and be able to hold fluent conversations… Thank you!
#1 by Marcus on October 6th, 2011
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Audiobooks, movies
Here’s a list of good french movies
À Bout de Souffle
Taxi
Taxi 2
Banlieue 13
Nikita
Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain
#2 by obamaftw1 on October 6th, 2011
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movies, songs mainly. Gotta train your ear. Reading is easy. Writing is easy. These, however, are like 10% of a language’s practicality. 90% is the listening speaking.
Listen to songs. Print out the lyrics, memorize them, sing along with the song. This way you have applications for the words.
Same with movies.
#3 by Randomdude on October 6th, 2011
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Well same situation here, im in high school as well and taking french also. What came to help me was just studying and pronouncing the words after i heard how the teacher would say them. I just kept reading it and pronouncing it, and having a great teacher, she would help correct me when i mis pronounced something. and well that helped me good. Though with some french songs i still cant understand some of the words they say xD
#4 by Minnie'sPolkaDots on October 6th, 2011
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I just started French last year (I take it in school, too!) and I basically just watched movies in French that I knew very well in English. For example, I loove Disney, so I watched a ton of the movies in French (most DVDs have a language option where you can pick a language). It helped me so much. Once I was super comfortable with them, I started watching actual French movies, first subtitled, and then with only the language. It has helped SO much; I find it so amazing that I can understand almost all of what is happening even though I just started the language. (: I also bought a ton of French music, which has helped a lot. (:
#5 by Spotty-Dotty on October 6th, 2011
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go to france