New French Home? Learning French and Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Buying a French property? People often say that French is a hard language to learn, but if you go about it in the right way, it doesn't have to be so difficult. Learning languages is a normal human capacity, one that almost everyone shares. Doing so is simply a matter of finding the learning method that works best for you. Just keep in mind that you have your own particular way of learning languages. Languages all have various structures and rules; not everyone learns these in the same way or at the same speed. Regardless of how you learn, or how fast, the following guidelines will help to make learning a language simpler for you.

The first thing to do when you want to learn another language is to be receptive about how it looks and sounds. It is easy to say that you want to learn French but then resist the things about French that are different from your native tongue. The mistake many people make when learning another language is that they cling to the rules of their old language and try to make the new one obey those rules. Each language has its own rules. The way words and phrases are put together differs from language to another. People who are not familiar with other languages often expect every language to work the same way.

If you are open to things being different and accept that there is more to learning French than simply learning a new vocabulary you will have a much easier time with the process.

Spend some time watching French speaking movies and talk sows on television. Using subtitles to help you along is alright at the beginner's level but the time will come when you will have to turn them off. The shocking part is that our languages have much more in common than you realize. Watching movies made in French is a great way to learn the language as it is spoken now. Although you can communicate with the language you learn in school; you will be restricted to the dry textbook verso of it. Watching movies and television shows will clue you in to current slang and other cultural references that you might not be able to learn about in a classroom setting or with an individual course.

Start thinking in your new language. Get into the habit of turning your thoughts into French, or any language you are learning. Thinking in the new language will become habitual if you practice this often. Once you can think in another language, you'll find that it's much easier to speak it out loud. Thinking the new language allows you to understand and speak it much more quickly; the process becomes natural and instinctive, without having to work it out word by word.

There are a lot of different ways that you can help yourself learn French.

Languages can be difficult to learn, so try not to let yourself get discouraged. So just be patience and put the effort into it, and before long you'll be speaking fluent French!

Carly Stay is our guest expert who writes about: Property France and How to Learn French in Simple Steps That Will Take You From Beginner to Master