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Habituellement, je faisais ça, je m'entraînais à enregistrer moi-même, puis je l'écoutais ensuite. C'est en fait une idée brillante.👍.. Vous êtes vraiment un excellent professeur 💯

Thank you Rory as always your videos are so motivating! I have been studying French as an adult student since about 2021 - in person classes, duolingo etc). But since October 2024 I saw your videos and I got the Assimil book and now 3 months on I'm on lesson 57 :-). Lately and sometimes I struggle with the exercise 2 questions - where you need to write in the answers, is this normal? I also want to learn French like you for speaking not a test or grammar, but the book still talks about the grammar and at school in the UK I realised in the 80s (lol )we didn't cover grammar very well at all really so I'm learning only now what prepositions etc are even in English. I have also been watching the you tube cartoons with subtitles and started speaking french exchange on zoom with someone in Guadeloupe but only twice, we mainly email and text so far. I hope I'm on the right track. 🙂Suja

Your videos are underrated ❤ Thank you for the great advice 😊

Going to Canada means going to Quebec province. Barnes And Noble does not sell it and can't order it.

I need to learn French

Use English to learn FRENCH! Watch FULL Video "3 Things I Wish I Knew... Before I Learned French".

0:30 Hello Rory, how's the weather? Winter here in the northern hemisphere, temps at night in the single digits. Congrats on your french learning, it is a mountain to climb for sure. As mentioned in previous posting, my motivation is linked to Southern Canada, likely an ancestor that lived in Sutton Canada in Quebec, who was also in the American Revolution. That area is mainly french speaking. I am essentially trying to prove that lineage and need to learn some French. I like the Alliance Auckland Course Curriculum. The app Learn French for Beginners by Appcano LLC on Google playstore is used. I also like Learn French with Nat out of Montreal, and Virginie in France as youtube tutoring mentors so to speak. The Mango app is also useful in my opinion. There are other resources to use, but what do you think of those already mentioned? Be well and take care. BTW, Happy New Year Rory.

There's always room for GROWTH. Watch FULL Video "Make Sure You Don't Waste 2025 (DO THIS)".

Where can i download this book? Semd me please a link

Thank you for reminding me. Good tips 🎉

Due to my limited tech abilities, I am struggling to figure out how I can make the Assimil USB more usable. Would you consider making a video about how to make the text from a single lesson play continuously? I watched an Alexander Arguelles video where he mentioned that he truncated the audio so that it didn't have spaces. He had a little mp3 device and was able to play the audio continuously. ATM I don't see the point of wasting time on the audio as I have to spend too much time clicking on one audio file for half a sentence of audio then returning to the list of files in order to listen to the following sentence! Perhaps there are other people like me would would benefit from such a video. BTW its great to see a fellow Aussie in this space!

Larry decided to bring me on as his coach 5 months ago as he needed support on his learning journey. Great to see him progressing well.

So true thanks for this reminder! 😅

I think it's the same for any language. The essential part is being understood even though it's not 100% correct. Personally I am french and I learned English by watching movies ( I already watched in french )in English with English subs. By reading books like Harry Potter in English.... By consuming TH-cam content in English.... I started by let's play or cooking show where vocabulary is coming back often, and slowly expanded to anything

Growth of learning FRENCH comes from... Watch FULL Video "Your Daily Routine to Learn French (DON'T Do This)".

Not one video in French lol

Your French pronunciation is off.

So why didn’t you do this video in French?

Rory, check out the tv show "Friends" and the episode where Joey learns french. It's quite funny!

Hi Rory, given your experience and understanding of learning methods, for beginners have you heard of the Alliance Auckland Syllabus? This syllabus gives a breakdown of french language learning from A1.1 thru to C1.6 I propose it is a roadmap of what to learn for french language proficiency, language goals and grammer topics. However along with the language goals, there needs to be a map of how, when, and where to apply what is learned. A start would be for the student learner to keep a journal with each session, possibly to keep for a given year, and with each succeeding year create a new journal but to also keep the previous years journal. You have said the beginner learner should work on phrases. Remember I am the guy in the US developing the I hate french grammer method of learning french. OK, humor me, btw. Rory, Happy New Year. Be well.!

Avec quel livre monsieur ?

Great advice as usual😊

Build up DAILY study to achieve FRENCH. Watch FULL Video "Your Daily Routine to Learn French (DON'T DO This)".

Can you post the link to the pdf you are showing in your video (Assimil French with Ease 1000.pdf)? Looks like a legacy version, non? Merci beaucoup!

Rory, I just saw your video "How I Became FLUENT in FRENCH in 1 Year!" and I became extremely motivated. I am commenting here because this appears to be your most recent video. I am interested in obtaining the Assimil book (plus audio) that you recommend in your video, but when I located it on Amazon it I saw a reviewer post come photos with some pretty bad typos: Qu'est que c'est (missing -ce); page 713 in the book shows the French word for Object to be Object (it is not, it is Objet); and the 37th lesson, line number 6 shows J'ai n'a pas réussi (should be je n'ai pas réussi). Do you have these mistakes in your textbook? Maybe it is a publication date issue? Have these errors been corrected? The reviewer says that there are a lot of errors and these are but a few that they noticed. FYI, I am a false beginner. I studied French for 5 years in junior high and high school, and 3 semesters in college. My wife and I just moved to France in November and I could use a good refresher. This looked like a great product...until I saw that Amazon review. Please let me know if you have these same errors in your book, and if you found any others. Thanks!

Penses-tu qu'on pourrait voir en 2025 une video de toi qui parle francais extensivement? Genre un interview ou quelquechose comme ca.

Hi, Bonjour Rory, Happy New Year. Hope your holidays went well. This is Jim in central NY USA messaging. I'll be messaging again in the near future about learning french. Just checking in. Hope you are well.

German learner here, not sure about French, but here's my experience with Duolingo. I generally think of it as a free language service; sure, it does push getting a subscription, but you don't need one in order to get a decent balance. Duolingo has added some new features recently, such as pre-made "radio" programs in a target language, which really improve listening. Speaking is lightly used in exercises, but it is mostly paywalled for anything truly worthwhile. As I have gotten further in the curriculum, I, alike others, began to use it alongside other resources (German TH-cam, some media). In my opinion, Duolingo by itself cannot get you to a native level, but I still find it very helpful for previously listed reasons. Also, as a high-school student in Spanish classes, Duolingo is also helpful on the side for that.

I think its good for some basics, but when you know the basis of a language its generally better to spend that subscription money on books, theory books to learn how the language works and general learning books.

If you want to get good at French conversations - 2 things to do (1) listen & (2) speak. Build your listening leve up FIRST and then start speaking once you are confident enough.

Joyeux Noël à tous et maintenant Bonne Année !

Hii, I have a question about leaning French. How many French phrases should I be learning a day? I’m doing 15 in the moment , would you say that’s enough or bare minimum? Thank you !!

definitely going to get some hate in the comments for sure. My husband has been using Duolingo for Japanese. It is what he started with. And he after a year+ of consistently doing it and a streak now of 700 and something days his job has started to utilize him at the Japanese airport checkpoint. now, he didn’t just use Duolingo. He has also watched TH-cam videos, Japanese news on TH-cam. Listen to Japanese music. As he is a singer, he has also attempted to write songs in Japanese and record them. he has also bought some of those level 123 etc. Japanese learners reading books. he bought an English/Japanese Bible. and watches TV shows in Japanese. Write in his journal in Japanese. And practices dialogue for work in Japanese. but… It all started with Duolingo and that got him very far until he wanted to learn/engage with more. and even now he is still carrying on with Duolingo daily. I believe he’s in section 2 unit 7 or something like that. Not entirely sure. (Edit to add he did all that w/o a subscription. With all the painful ads 🫠)

Unfortunately he's right. English speakers have literally zero grammar knowledge of their own language, so it's useless explaining anything to them through the medium of grammar. As a result, it takes them twice as long to learn a language at half the level of any foreigner.

for me, i personally find duolingo helpful for learning certain vocabulary words i don’t already know

It's not the worst when it comes to language apps, because it teaches sentences, not just vocab. But it can only get you to high beginner, especially in the languages that don't have stories. I had Spanish at school and Duo helped me get back into it after not using it for a few years. Now I can watch Netflix in Spanish. Also I stated leaning Russian there and I could skip the A1 class at Uni qualifying for A2 solely through Duo. But now that my tree is golden I need to use other resources

I was trying to learn a language for an entire year on Duolingo. And all I learned was how to order a pizza 😂

He's coming for you...

Ain't trusting a language coach who spells terrible "teribble"

WHAT THE ABSOULUTE HECK DID I WATCH

ok but i think no one is gonna trust you, they instead would clown you if this video becomes viral

Brisbane here. Just returned from Paris. According to the French mon accent est très mignon.

DUOLINGO is not going to help you to learn French... Watch FULL Video "How I Became FLUENT in FRENCH in 1 Year!".

FACTS

Finally crisp audio haha

youtube.com/@ConnorWoodman loved the ideas you shared in your video, so thank you for the inspiration here. have a great 2025 brother 🤝

You try hard learning French but you feel like you are not progressing fast enough, ask yourself whether your method learning French is going okay. If not, ask yourself what would be the best way to learn or whether the method needs to be improved. Watch FULL Video "How LARRY is Learning FRENCH with Me - LIVE Student".

Yeah this video was great! You nailed it!