Archive for December, 2009

French Language Software

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Studying needs to be fun if you want to succeed. When it comes to studying languages, for me the fun is in listening to music, watching movies, chatting on the Internet and especially meeting people: I just adore making international friends
Living in Malaysia, there isn’t any TV broadcast in French. The French news [...]

Where to study French in France

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Did you know you can study French in Nice?
No, this is not nice like in good-fun-interesting, this is Nice: a place at the Cote d’Azur in the South of France. Still doesn’t ring a bell? What about the film festival in Cannes? Aha, now we got your attention
I have been to the Cote [...]

Study better using flashcards

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Why people keep on studying French and Spanish with me, is not only because I am good, but because I use a "play to learn" approach. One of the methods I love is: using flashcards by the dozen. It’s just that I make them myself, and that is really time consuming.
Happy to have found ProProfs [...]

Learn French or Spanish

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

If you ask yourself: should I learn French or Spanish as an extra language, then consider first the overall studying time you have available.
If your time is limited and you want to make fast progress, then study Spanish. Why?

because you will master the only few Spanish sounds much faster than the French sounds
because [...]

French language course

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Are you looking for a French language course? Then first ask yourself why you want to study French:

you are visiting France and need to be able to speak French: speak some basic words in the French language
you want to make a deep French conversation with French people
you want to read French books
you want to [...]

French Love Phrases

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I was walking through the streets of Kuala Lumpur last evening and a woman stops me asking: do you speak French? Wooaaah, I got a stalker! Ok, I do give French classes in a school nearby, so that probably gave me away
Anyway, she had a French letter from her boyfriend in Algeria and [...]

Study French in the Caribbean

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Look at the map below and what do you think you see?

Well, the red circle in the middle is France and the other red dots on the map is…. also France!
Yes, we are talking about the so called DOM-TOM: French territory overseas. That means if you are in Tahiti, suddenly you need to [...]

Learn languages with movies and cartoons

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

A fun way if you love cartoons is buying a French cartoon (if you study French that is) and try to understand it.
One very popular cartoon is Asterix and Obelix: talking about the French during the days of the roman invasion about 2000 years ago. With a lot of hints to modern days France. You [...]