How to learn French
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Hello everyone,
It's a bonus episode from Camille, the voice behind French Today, answering the age old question: How should I learn French?
More specifically, I asked her about the order to do it in, how to be efficient in learning the language, and what the other teachers are doing incorrectly.
I share some tales of woe in my own French learning, and pose a few day-to-day questions that I've been storing up, and Camille also teaches me what I've been doing wrong when I try to say "bow-tie" in French, or "noeud papillon".
Also, Camille has written in great detail about the best method for learning French, so if you want some great extra reading content then simply follow this link.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's Thursday in Paris. This is the Earful Tower, a bonus episode with French Today, |
| 0:05.5 | who present the show usually, but for this episode, it's just me and Camille talking about how to learn French. |
| 0:11.6 | Now, it's a pretty interesting thought, really. We all know that you can go to a school and learn |
| 0:16.4 | all the grammar and all the tensors and all the boring stuff if you ask me, |
| 0:21.5 | which is exactly what I did when I first moved to Paris. |
| 0:23.8 | But I chat with Camille about lots of different things, |
| 0:26.3 | but especially this concept of the best order in which to learn French. |
| 0:30.7 | So you're going to hear it from her, |
| 0:32.1 | but the idea is that you shouldn't get weighed down learning grammar and tensors |
| 0:37.2 | and things like that. |
| 0:38.4 | You should start with the basics. |
| 0:40.1 | You should focus on your own things. |
| 0:42.4 | And, well, I'm going to let her explain it to you. |
| 0:44.7 | But a bonus episode, enjoy Kemm E from French Today. |
| 0:48.5 | And remember, you can do it while you're listening. |
| 0:50.3 | If you visit their website this month, so March March in 2019 all you need to do is put |
| 0:55.8 | www.french today.com forward slash earful three and you will get a further 10% off all their |
| 1:02.4 | audio books if you're listening to this in the future April, May, June put four, five or six |
| 1:07.9 | respectively at the end of that link and it will give you the 10% discount. |
| 1:11.8 | But let's take it away here. |
| 1:13.1 | Here's Camille from French today talking about the order in which she thinks you should |
| 1:18.0 | learn French. |
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