The best tools to learn another language are your EARS.
I speak, write and read 3 languages fluently.
French is my mother tongue, I am a writer in the English language, I am an interpreter in the Spanish language, and I know the basics in the Korean language.
With my years of experience in learning foreign languages and being amongst other students of some of the same languages we've learned together, I have ALWAYS noticed that the ones having the hardest time with leaning any of those languages, were the ones who didn't have a good ear.
Developing a good ear to learn French is key, but what is a good ear? Do you know how some people are unable to sing a tone? Yes, that is the same problem with languages.
Every language has its own tone and being able to catch it or not has to do with your ability of HEARING.
Of course, this has nothing to do with you having perfect earring or loss of earring, but rather with the ability to catch the subtleties of how sounds sound.
So, how can you develop this kind of good ear to learn French? By focusing on "listening".
Listen to the music of the language and try to detect its lows and downs.
For example, the French language is pretty flat in tone and doesn't have lots of typical low and down tones.
The reason for this is that french words have no stress or emphasis at the beginning, middle or end, such as in Spanish, English, Korean and many other languages which have a variety of up and down tones.
Another good way to develop the habit of hearing is taping a conversation spoken by natives and taping you having the same conversation.
Do you hear the difference, beside your accent? Are you stressing a word somewhere, where it's not needed? Your answer to this question should help you to know where you need to work on.
French is a beautiful and rather though language to learn, but remember, it has no stress.
So don't complicate it where you don't need to.
I speak, write and read 3 languages fluently.
French is my mother tongue, I am a writer in the English language, I am an interpreter in the Spanish language, and I know the basics in the Korean language.
With my years of experience in learning foreign languages and being amongst other students of some of the same languages we've learned together, I have ALWAYS noticed that the ones having the hardest time with leaning any of those languages, were the ones who didn't have a good ear.
Developing a good ear to learn French is key, but what is a good ear? Do you know how some people are unable to sing a tone? Yes, that is the same problem with languages.
Every language has its own tone and being able to catch it or not has to do with your ability of HEARING.
Of course, this has nothing to do with you having perfect earring or loss of earring, but rather with the ability to catch the subtleties of how sounds sound.
So, how can you develop this kind of good ear to learn French? By focusing on "listening".
Listen to the music of the language and try to detect its lows and downs.
For example, the French language is pretty flat in tone and doesn't have lots of typical low and down tones.
The reason for this is that french words have no stress or emphasis at the beginning, middle or end, such as in Spanish, English, Korean and many other languages which have a variety of up and down tones.
Another good way to develop the habit of hearing is taping a conversation spoken by natives and taping you having the same conversation.
Do you hear the difference, beside your accent? Are you stressing a word somewhere, where it's not needed? Your answer to this question should help you to know where you need to work on.
French is a beautiful and rather though language to learn, but remember, it has no stress.
So don't complicate it where you don't need to.
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