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Today’s recommendation is French Teacher Carlito. He talks about different topics while simultaneously Implementing technique that could help you with your listening and conversational skills, such that your level of fluency is augmented.
Sep 22, 2024
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Love this! I agree re: the above recommendation; you should start with Anki and use it to learn the 1000 most frequent words in whatever language you’re learning.
While you’re learning those words, it’s also helpful to start studying some basic grammar. Doesn’t have to be anything too intense. You could buy a grammar book and do one lesson a day, watch grammar lesson videos on YouTube, or use an online program like Kwiziq (depending on what language you want to learn).
Once you’re done learning the 1000 vocab words, I’d start consuming media! There are so many resources online depending on what your target language is—podcasts, children’s TV shows, newspapers, novels, etc. You can continue to make Anki vocab cards when you come across a word you don’t know, but it really depends on how you best learn.
I meet with my French tutor once a week and it’s helped me immensely with my speaking skills. You can find online tutors on Italki for pretty reasonable prices.
I also changed my phone and laptop language to French — it was frustrating at first but you get used to it pretty quickly and it helps with the learning process.
There’s also so many language learning resources online like r/languagelearning on Reddit. Good luck!
Feb 19, 2024
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It’s very frequent that I recommend learning languages through YouTube videos on this account. I’ve already recommended some content creators, both in French and Italian, which are the languages I’m currently learning.
In case none of the suggestions I’ve made are of your liking, or you simply are learning some other language, I still want to leave a generic list of the type of people you could look for in the hopes of achieving fluency. This is intended for people who are self-taught and are just starting.
It’s important you look them up on YouTube. In my experience, short-form content is not very good for attention retention. besides, it's better when you stick to a limited group of people you could get familiarized with.
The first type of people you should look for, are vloggers. The advantage of said type of content is the fact that it tends to be repetitive, as the routines displayed go on loop video after video. Plus, you could get used to their personality, voice and accent, which could lead you to internalize aspects of the language better. It could also help you to amplify your views on cultural factors. Similarly, you could also go for podcasts.
The other type of content you should look for, is the one of magazines and journals. I suggest magazines because they are much more simplistic in their tone as their reach is generally more massive. For instance, you could look up Vogue (i.e. Vogue Italia, Vogue España, Vogue France, etc.), ELLE, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, etc. These are aware of the international platform they hold, as well as how varied their audience tends to be, so they typically do simple content surrounding stuff like fashion, makeup, house-tours, among other things that are relatively basic to any language in order to hold a conversation. It goes without saying, that you should also read their articles to improve and expand your vocabulary.
The third type of content creator I'm about to suggest is a bit screwed up. That is, people who locate themselves in the true crime genre. The reason I suggest this, is because they touch upon the routines of people frequently. I know not everyone feels comfortable interacting with that kind of content, but not everything is about bloody murder. Don't knock it until you try it.
Sep 23, 2024
Dr. Marie Jourdan is a dermatologist. I believe that, in order to learn any language, you have to explore things that will help you diversify your vocabulary and not just things that involve basic conversation. She explains a bunch of concepts in relation to her field.
I find it useful to also get use to hearing French, even when you don't understand all of it at once.
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