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French Podcasts Recommendations to learn for beginners

07/28/201701/22/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

In my quest to learn french in one year, one of the most difficult skills to improve on has been listening. It’s fine when it’s one sentence but when people are actually speaking it becomes quite difficult. My experience trying to watch movies or even different TV shows has not been excellent as I end up relying on the subtitles to understand anything at all.

The solution I found was to listen to podcasts and I’ve been trying a few different ones and here are three that I’m listening to right now. Overall I feel like it has helped me a lot in my listening but I still have a lot of work to do. I don’t get to listen to them daily but I try to at least once a week.

French Progress #1

07/21/201701/22/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

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As some of you guys know, I am trying to learn as much French as I can in one year. There is at least one article per week on Friday’s that will be French related though other days will also include French content if applicable. I thought it’d be appropriate to write updates on my … Read More “French Progress #1” »

Wakfu is the best cartoon in recent decades Season 1 and 2

07/15/201701/20/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

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When Wakfu came out it quickly became a cult hit and it had a small but excited fan base that shared it around and recommended it. Hailed as the revival of French animation I was curious to check it out but put off that it was based on a video game that I had no intention of ever playing. So how exactly is Wakfu? Is it actually any good? Well let’s take a look at the first two seasons that started the franchise.

Wakfu is one of those rare treats that come out of nowhere and deliver. What we have here is a very polished show with not only beautiful animation but an extremely interesting world and a large memorable cast of characters. The show does constant world building which if you are familiar with other Wakfu media you’ll be able to dwell deeper into other aspects of the Wakfu world. I was amazed by how unique and fun this world is and just want to see more of it.

Forming a Habit to learn French

07/14/201701/19/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

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There are many things that you need to consider when you want to speak another language. Part of it is having the right material to work with, practice, memorizing and many others. The most important out of all of these however is forming a habit. It might seem like the simplest thing to do but it’s also the hardest.

For example, last week I talked about some apps that you can use to learn French. But if you don’t begin using them daily, you never form a habit and then you stop using them. I know this because it happened to me before and it wasn’t until I forced myself to practice every day that they became part of my routine every day. If we always leave things for “When I have time”, you’ll never achieve things because there will always be stuff that comes up and takes that time away. So, It is imperative that you force yourself to make time for it.

My Favorite French Apps to learn French

07/07/201701/19/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

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As a former foreign language teacher I thought I’d give my review of some language learning apps that I’m using to learn French in one year. The following Apps I have formed a habit of using daily, I’ll describe how they fare and how I am using them on my day to day basis.

Memrise

A fun alternative to the more popular Duolingo, they include mostly vocabulary focused exercises which is great. It’s easy to use and you feel progress as you change “levels’ and move from “planet to planet” as you explore the solar system of the stuff you need to learn. In the past they used to give you a “preview” of the exercises behind a paywall which was nice since they were generous with those previews but they don’t really do that anymore. It still works fine as the meat and bones of the app are still free. I aim to complete all the words I have to review and “half” a planet each day.

Learning French in one year, join me!

06/23/201701/18/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

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It’s always important to better ourselves and learn new things and because of it I decided to set a new goal for me: To learn French in one year. Over the next 364 days I will be practicing french daily throughout different means to get better at the four skills, speaking, writing, listening and reading.

For a little background, I’m not starting from zero, I’d consider myself almost at an intermediate level. I studied French for 3 years back in High School but of course I didn’t learn how to speak it and it was quite a few years ago. I then studied it for a year and a half about 4 years ago and started studying again since last fall, now I haven’t been the best student and classes are only twice a week for 4 months of the year so while helpful, they aren’t the best if you really want to learn at a faster pace and it leaves a lot of room to get unmotivated.