Mar 01
You can now find our new French flash cards on a blog only featuring free French flash cards.
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Feb 26
The best and somehow evil way to learn French for free online is buying any online French course that comes with a money back guarantee.
Browse for online French courses that look appealing to you, or just have a look at the online French courses we recommend like Rocket French.
What is a good course to learn French for free online
- First and foremost, the online French courses of your choice should be downloadable after payment AND have a money back guarantee of at least one month.
- Secondly, look for a French language programs that offer online French classes so you can study French online. If you spend much time behind a computer a day, joining an online French class will leave you with no excuse than to do a bit of French studying each day.
- Thirdly, use your gut feeling when evaluating online French courses: if they look fun and use more than one teaching technique, then go for it.
Ideal online French courses should use multimedia, have flashcards, French language software and game type exercises.
When you spend lots of time in a car or on public transport, then look for learn French cds you can listen to whilst commuting. Passive listening to French is one way of easy French language immersion that pays off working on your long term memory.
- Last but not least: don’t be bothered by the price, as long as there is a money back guarantee.
How to benefit from your learn French for free online course
Once you downloaded your learn French for free online course, make sure you start using it. How to speak French when you don’t use your French course?
Make yourself a schedule to learn French.
- Ideal is to study at least 10 minutes of French a day. That could mean 10 minutes less lunch-break or even better: all the moments they show ads on TV.
Just find when you have time to steal in your busy schedule and push in your French course.
- Then stick to your plan and don’t do more than 4 hours a week (unless you really, really love learning French using that French course!)
- Tick in your schedule day 29 and write: To do: evaluate my online French course and if needed ask for my money back.
To buy or not to buy your learn French for free online course
Once you reach day 29 and you still don’t know how to speak French at all, then ask for your money back.
It just means that the course wasn’t too appealing for you to keep you motivated in learning French. Chances are big that you won’t be motivated in future either to learn French with this course, so no point in paying for it: ask your money back!
Once you reach day 29 and you find that you are making lots of progress in your French language studies?
Then look at your budget and be fair: can you afford to buy this French course (in stead of a Latté or your 26th pair of shoes…)? If the answer is yes, please do buy this French course as you will love it for the rest of your life!
If the price is too high compared to your spending and to what you have paid for the rest of your education, then ask your money back and you just found yourself a way how to learn French for free online.
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Feb 22
If you read one of our previous learn French swear words posts, you learned the French word for crazy. Now let’s go for the next level of crazyness…
Tu délires?
Study French by immersion of lots and lots of petits délires…
By now looking at the French picture, especially those strange looking "petits délires"-guys, you could have guessed the French translation of these French swear words.
If not, then always try to find an English words that looks or sounds pretty similar to the French words:
- délires looks like the English: delirious
So "Tu délires" becomes: Are you totally crazy?
If you are not deliriously crazy and you are ready to study more French, you can read further at: Basic French Phrases
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Feb 19
The best ways of learning French are:
- learn French in France
- go international: you can learn French in another French language country. Belgium is my country of choice but equally good are Canada and Switzerland: also well known for learning French there.
- try to learn French with a native French speaker (learn French online by chatting or writing emails, or even better: learn French with a French colleague or friend)
French swear words not so rude…
Va voir si j’y suis!
Not a pretty rude French swear word, as you can see it used in an advertisement of a French website.
Learn this French sentence by hearth, as there as very useful words you will need whenever you learn French:
- va : Go, he goes, she goes, it goes
- si : if
- j’ / je : I
- je suis : I am
- y : there
If you have been learning French / Français before, you should know already the expression using "y" :
- Il y a : there is – there are
So the whole French sentence: va voir si j’y suis means : Go see if I am there / Go have a look if I am there…which only a very stupid idiot will do…
Learn French phrases
Visit the following pages if you want to learn a specific topic of the French language:
- Basic French Phrases
- all French Phrases
- in stead of French swear words, learn French love phrases
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Feb 15
Did you know you could get a 3 month long French language immersion "for free"?
It needed the marriage of my niece to find out… At the small dinner we had afterwards, I spoke to her little sister who started like me: getting a French scholarship because nobody else is taking them and get your French studies paid for.
The only problem with studying something because there is a scholarship, is that you could end up doing something you don’t like too much. Now I am in love with the French language, but my little niece is in love with traveling. So she wants to become a flight-attendant. Standing on your legs with smile on your face for 12 hours in a row is not really my kind of fun but anyway…
The main thing is that she got offered a job at HSBC bank on one condition: she has to sign a 3 year contract. I would have been interested, but I want to continue my studies, so it’s one or the other, yet for her it would be ideal because…
… the benefit is: the bank will give here a 3 month long French language immersion in France as part of the training!
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Feb 10
Use our free printable flashcards to learn how to speak French fast!
Each language is about communication. Communication is about interaction.
So the reverse idea: interaction with the language will give you much better communication skills!
One way I always recommend my students in my French school to do is using French flashcards.
To save time you can buy them ready made.
Or if you want to take your sweet time, you can make them yourselves using the examples I give, like in the picture above.
French Flashcard 3
What do you see in the picture above?
A line of donkeys.
And what is the French translation of "donkey"?
English word = donkey
French word = l’ âne
There you are: l’ âne in French sounds like line, and by now you will never forget that.
It doesn’t even have to be exact. Focus on the sounds created when pronouncing French words.
- That’s the key to the link word technique.
- That’s the key for you to memorize lots and lots more of French words fast, fun and forever.
Previous French FlashCards
- How to speak French the basics : Learn the French word for horse
- Learn to speak French software : Learn the French word for (fish-)pond
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