Thank you Rory, I really appreciate the feature. Loved the video. You are absolutely right, if you are too hard on yourself it can become overwhelming and discouraging. “Un progrès lent vaut mieux que pas de progrès.” Excuse my French 😂
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!
Hi Christopher, unfortunately, I can't share that PDF with you since it's a copy that I scanned myself and I am not allowed to send out to anyone else per the copyright rules. All of my students buy either the digital version (via e-book) or the physical book. www.assimil.com/en/with-ease/1670-french-9782700571233.html That error in the book that the Amazon reviewer wrote doesn't even matter. This is a book of approx. 10,000 French words, there is bound to be some spelling mistakes. Myself and my students have all used the book without any issue.
Awesome! I hope you are both enjoying France the past few months. If you'd like to get a personal learning plan you can implement each day, you can take the link in the description of my videos. We can have a chat and see if you would be a good fit. No pressure at all.
@@FrenchCoach Ahhh, no worries. I did a little poking around and I found myself a PDF copy of Assimil New French With Ease 1998 edition, so I am using that one now. It is the exact same one that is shown in the video "3 Things I Wish I Knew...Before I Learned French." I compared it to the video just to be sure (p.283 "Oh, les beaux jours!"). I also have the audio tracks for the 1998 edition, so I think I'm all set. Thanks for the great idea!
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 !!
@@FrenchCoach just on TH-cam , kinda randomly. I’ve searched top French phrases to learn and watched videos from channel like “learn French from Alexa”. But I can definitely say it’s useful because I’ve already memorised about 30 phrases in the span of two days. However I don’t know if it’s sustainable because there isn’t really structure to my learning as they are from videos I randomly find and not from a structured text book. Thank you for replying
Try doing your own sentences. What would you like to express in french that you can't? Learn these sentences. If you do 15 a day, you'll reach conversational level very soon.
@@ilkayozdemir4064 I completely agree with @wolfgam. Make a spreadsheet and list down all the phrases you find interesting or would like to use in French. Have one column for the phrase in French and another for the English meaning. Something I personally found really helpful was learning conversations, and no individual words or grammar rules. So what you are doing here learning phrases is good. But even better I think is creating your own small conversations you make up. Use the phrases you hear in videos or find online to create these imaginary conversations and have some fun with them! You will remember them better and also have fun!
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!
@@Climbing_Carmel_TODC Good to see a fellow Aussie finding my videos helpful! good question. Do you have a single audio file for each lesson? That should have a duration of around 1 min and play all of the lesson lines and exercises lines at once without you having to click constantly.
@@FrenchCoach There is a folder for each lesson, however it will not "play all" so it's taking a ridiculous amount of time to play all the dialogue from one lesson.
youtube.com/@ConnorWoodman loved the ideas you shared in your video, so thank you for the inspiration here. have a great 2025 brother 🤝
Thank you Rory, I really appreciate the feature. Loved the video. You are absolutely right, if you are too hard on yourself it can become overwhelming and discouraging. “Un progrès lent vaut mieux que pas de progrès.” Excuse my French 😂
@@ConnorWoodman haha no your French is perfect!
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!
Hi Christopher, unfortunately, I can't share that PDF with you since it's a copy that I scanned myself and I am not allowed to send out to anyone else per the copyright rules.
All of my students buy either the digital version (via e-book) or the physical book.
www.assimil.com/en/with-ease/1670-french-9782700571233.html
That error in the book that the Amazon reviewer wrote doesn't even matter. This is a book of approx. 10,000 French words, there is bound to be some spelling mistakes. Myself and my students have all used the book without any issue.
Awesome! I hope you are both enjoying France the past few months.
If you'd like to get a personal learning plan you can implement each day, you can take the link in the description of my videos. We can have a chat and see if you would be a good fit. No pressure at all.
@@FrenchCoach Ahhh, no worries. I did a little poking around and I found myself a PDF copy of Assimil New French With Ease 1998 edition, so I am using that one now. It is the exact same one that is shown in the video "3 Things I Wish I Knew...Before I Learned French." I compared it to the video just to be sure (p.283 "Oh, les beaux jours!"). I also have the audio tracks for the 1998 edition, so I think I'm all set. Thanks for the great idea!
@@christopher9503 terrific. Best of luck using it. If you ever have any questions, you know where to find me!
Penses-tu qu'on pourrait voir en 2025 une video de toi qui parle francais extensivement? Genre un interview ou quelquechose comme ca.
absolument - c'est sur ma liste :) merci
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 !!
hmm good question. where are you learning these phrases from? what resources?
@@FrenchCoach just on TH-cam , kinda randomly. I’ve searched top French phrases to learn and watched videos from channel like “learn French from Alexa”. But I can definitely say it’s useful because I’ve already memorised about 30 phrases in the span of two days. However I don’t know if it’s sustainable because there isn’t really structure to my learning as they are from videos I randomly find and not from a structured text book. Thank you for replying
Try doing your own sentences. What would you like to express in french that you can't? Learn these sentences. If you do 15 a day, you'll reach conversational level very soon.
@@ilkayozdemir4064 I completely agree with @wolfgam. Make a spreadsheet and list down all the phrases you find interesting or would like to use in French. Have one column for the phrase in French and another for the English meaning. Something I personally found really helpful was learning conversations, and no individual words or grammar rules. So what you are doing here learning phrases is good. But even better I think is creating your own small conversations you make up. Use the phrases you hear in videos or find online to create these imaginary conversations and have some fun with them! You will remember them better and also have fun!
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!
@@Climbing_Carmel_TODC Good to see a fellow Aussie finding my videos helpful! good question. Do you have a single audio file for each lesson? That should have a duration of around 1 min and play all of the lesson lines and exercises lines at once without you having to click constantly.
@@FrenchCoach There is a folder for each lesson, however it will not "play all" so it's taking a ridiculous amount of time to play all the dialogue from one lesson.
@@Climbing_Carmel_TODC hmmm is there another folder where each of the lessons only have 1 audio file?
Finally crisp audio haha
all of my most recent videos - very crisp audio :)
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