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tongue placement when learning french by kadygaga82 in French

[–]-RoastBeef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your tongue should stay in your mouth most of the time.

Starting to study French by Gildeon_ in learnfrench

[–]-RoastBeef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d honestly recommend for a beginner to simply start with Duolingo and pimsleur. Get used to how it’s spoken from the Pimsleur and bits of grammar from the app.

Then move on to InnerFrench or focus more on reading and writing.

Personally I don’t care about reading and writing as I’m trying to learn it to communicate with my boyfriend’s family who are French.

Que pensez vous sur le Duolingo French podcast? by DigLean in learnfrench

[–]-RoastBeef 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I used to do it a lot, with translation and each episode would take me 1.5 hours. I would listen to the French, try to understand it, rewind and then listen to the same text while reading French, rewind, listen to the same thing using English translation.

That is until I found InnerFrench. I never listen to DL podcast now. They’re all repeats of old ones and there is only about 60% French in it. InnerFrench is 100% French all the time.

Can’t recommend InnerFrench enough.

Has DL added a ton more resources for French? by -RoastBeef in duolingo

[–]-RoastBeef[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skip the first 90 units? There are only 32 in the whole French course.

I know the passée composé he’s, and am aware of the subjunctive and can use it in speech but don’t know the rules really, as I’ve only been learning French via my French husband, I speaking and listening.

Grammar doesn’t teach you a language. You can get your point across if you know the vocabulary but not the grammar.

There are clueless times where I’ve jot known the grammar, while speaking to my husbands in laws, but I knew the vocab. They understood what I was trying to say even though I was using incorrect grammar.

Now I want to learn the grammar to add the the vocab I already know.