It's really helpful! With the pictures and vocab that's relatively easy to understand with the context in which it appears, it's a good way to improve naturally as a child would!
Thanks for the comment! I'm trying my best to incorperate new informational videos that can help people going through similar situations that I've been through moving abroad years ago! It helps a lot when people send me direct messages asking about certain topics like moving to France and learning the language, so that I know what type of videos would like to see or learn from!
That's awesome! I hope you're sticking to it! I have some French videos, so maybe it'll help your comprehension to follow along! I speak relatively slowly and simply without vocabulary too complicated :)
Merci, Jordan! I hope to live in France in the near future. Your videos have been very insightful. I am learning French through several resources, including music, movies, and podcast. The most helpful tools I've been using are Babbel and Duolingo, but the best resource I've found is the classes I've been taking through my local Alliance Francaise. I hope to get to your level as quickly as possible!
Hey Beverly, thanks for you comment! That's exciting to hear you'll planning on moving to France in the upcoming years ^^ ...you're getting a good start by learning French in the meantime! (you're ahead of the game! ^^ great news!) If you're motivated to integrate and learn French as quick as possible, I would recommend moving to a smaller French city where less people speak English because you'll be forced to adapt (like I was in Limoges compared to Paris) ...but of course Paris is a beautiful city, rich in culture and diversity, so that is always a good idea as well!
Hi, Salut, Jordan, Like you, I love musics, concerts and songs. With most applications and on most websites, the subtitles can be displayed in the same language as the song or the concert. In my point of view, It’s a great method too, to understand languages and accents, orally. ^^ Thanks. Comme toi, j'adore les musiques, les concerts et les chansons. Avec la plupart des applications et sur la plupart des sites internet, les sous-titres, peuvent être affichés, dans la même langue que la chanson ou le concert. A mon avis, c'est aussi une super méthode, pour comprendre les langues et les accents, à l'oral. ^^ Merci.
Viva la musica ! Comme toi j'adore écouter la musique et même si c'est plus difficile à comprendre... Il y a toujours les paroles à découvrir et ça peut aider sûrement !
Hey Jordan, that's a great video you've got here. The question of resources is actually extremely important when you learn a language. As you mentioned at the beginning, the concept of fluency is different from one person to another. I personally believe that if your language skills are enough to cover all your language needs, then you're fluent. I would say that, in order to find the most relevant resources, a good way to start is to become conscious of the situations you're likely to use French in and then try to find the most relevant resources to help you towards this. For example, reading children books and listening to music are a great way to expand your vocabulary, to be exposed to French or simply to have fun. But before you spend some time on those, ask yourself whether the vocabulary and phrases you'll find in them will come in handy for your own situation. As you said, when you were in university, your level of French didn't go as high as you would have needed it to be when you moved to France. That's probably because at that time, you didn't really need French. And the problem is that we tend to forget the words and expressions we barely ever use. Many people are afraid to read documents that aren't designed for beginners because they say: I don't understand. Instead, try saying: I don't understand YET. By doing so, you won't limit yourself and will probably investigate further into the resources that are actually relevant and necessary for you and will benefit from them even more than from reading things simply because they are easy to understand. There are many strategies to help you out in these situations. I love your channel! Best, JB
Thanks for your comment, that makes a lot of sense! I agree it's a good idea to use terminology that doesn't "limit" ourselves from achieving greatness or understanding things eventually with time! When I learned a year of French in university in the US, I had no idea that I would one day live in France. If I had known, then I definitely would have taken the class more seriously and put in more effort to learn at the time. I agree, to see progress, you must put yourself in uncomfortable situations in order to grow! I really appreciate your insight and recommendations! Happy Easter!
There are French language schools in France. I went to Alliances Française. We covered in a month what was taught in a college semester, or nearly a year of high school French! It is intense, fast paced and expensive! If you are NOT a good language learner I suggest a different approach! You will be wasting your time and money. But they try hard to teach. If you need 2 years of language arts for your degree, 4-5 months there might get you to clep out on the language. But even 4-5 months is daunting if you are not wired to learn quickly new language. Learning to read French was very easy for me. Learning to speak it was a Very different ball game. Writing in French, for me, was somewhere in the middle of reading and speaking it! But everyone has different skills and abilities. Bonne chance!
You're very welcome, glad I could help! ^^ ...if you're trying to improve your French comprehension, feel free to check out my videos in which I'm speaking French! (I speak relatively slow and clear so it shouldn't be to hard to follow^^) Good luck on your language learning adventure!
Jordan, nice to meet your mother. Thanks for some great ideas on how to get better in French. Children's books -- what a great idea. Another great resource is just the videos on TH-cam for people learning French, such as Inner French (Hugo Cotton), Language City (Alexandre de Chambure), and Easy French, where the interviewers talk to people on the streets of Paris.
Thank you!! Yesss I agree, I subscribe to Inner French and Easy French! Those are great ways to hear locals speaking French and it's a great way to learn new words!
J'aime beaucoup NETFLIX pour le cinéma et les documentaires. On peut choisir, et l'audio, et les sous titres dans la langue que l'on veut. En tant que français, au début, je n'écoutais pas l'audio en anglais avec les sous-titres en français. Je faisais le contraire, avec l'audio en français et les sous-titres en anglais. C''est bizarre, mais j'ai mieux appris l'anglais comme ça. ^^ Aujourd'hui je mets l'audio et les sous-titres en anglais. J'ai fait aussi des tests avec l'audio en français et les sous-titres en français, pour le plaisir. Il y a de petites différences quand ils sont tous deux, dans la même langue. Mais on comprend bien et c'est bien pratique. ^^
Je suis d'accord avec tout ce que t'as dit ! Moi j'ai toujours les sous-titres français même quand je regarde une série en anglais pour la même raison que toi. La raison que l'audio français et les sous-titres français n'ont pas été pareil parce que c'était pas VO. J'imagine que c'était une série américaine n'est-ce pas ? Si c'est une série française ça va correspondre l'audio et les sous-titres ^^. Ça change quand c'est traduit dans une langue étrangère car il y a deux organisations séparées. Une pour l'audio traduction et une pour sous-titres tu vois ? Ça aide aussi quand tu veux apprendre deux fois de plus des choses au même temps mais faut avoir un niveau assez haut ! J'en ai fait aussi... Mais ça pourrait être fatigant aussi ^^
@@JordanPatrick Exactement. Merci pour l'explication. Si la vidéo est française ou francophone, alors l'audio et les sous-titres en français correspondent exactement ! Mot à mot. Si la vidéo est américaine ou anglophone, alors l'audio et les sous-titres en anglais correspondent exactement aussi ! Si on regarde une vidéo américaine avec audio et sous-titres en français, il y a quelques différences entre audio et sous-titres . Pareil pour l'inverse. ^^
@@JordanPatrick il y a toujours un décalage entre l'audio et les sous titres, parce que peu de gens lisent aussi vite que ce qui est dit, la transcription complète prendrait aussi beaucoup de place. Mais les sous titres permettent de suivre l'histoire, de comprendre les dialogues et de voir l'orthographe de mots nouveaux, à chercher plus tard dans le dictionnaire 😜
I used the Fluenz language DVDs to help me learn French before going on vacation there. Of course, the locals speak it so fast, I still couldn't understand them! Great video, but I do suggest that you leave your suggestions on the screen long enough for viewers to pause them and copy them down (or even do screenshots). Merci!
Hello! Thanks for your comment and suggestions! I'll try to include more texts and for long enough to take some screenshots :). It's cool to hear that you tried to learn some French before traveling here! That's already a lot more than some people do, so I'm sure the effort was much appreciated! Even as an immigrant here when I was working in Paris, I would be disturbed by customers would would approach me directly in English asking for something without first saying "Bonjour"...it's funny how even I took offense to that, because for all they knew I could have been French and not know English. Even just knowing how to say "Hello, do you speak English" goes a LONG WAY in any culture :)
@@JordanPatrick Yes, I always said Bonjour before anything else, and sometimes s'il vous plait at the start, too, for fear I'd forget to add it at the end. Salespersons, especially younger ones, such as at the post office and train station always smiled while I made an effort to say what I needed, then they spoke perfect English while filling my request. Also, once at a cafe, I told the veteran waiter, "I started to order in French, but decided not to." He replied, "Merci." So, a good sense of humor, too. :)
@James Harmon ---- my French 'friend' told me to ''Never Speak to Me in French!" At first i thought it was funny! A few months later, well..... who needs friends like that! Such encouragement! (And I was going to French school to learn French!) Friends come and go, I guess. And that one, well..... zoom, calabasas! (Chao chao!)
Im amazed your high school Spanish helped you a little. I speak Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian and none of those Latin languages helped me learn French. Lol Weirdly because I speak Spanish I’ve always been able to read in French. 🤷🏻♀️
Hi, thanks for your comment! See, that's what I meant! Knowing some Spanish I was able to recognize what some French words meant based on the Latin base, but you're right, it was more for reading and comprehension! Also their are some similarities in the grammar between Spanish and French, so that was another little help. It's definitely easier going from French to Spanish than it is the other way around lol😅. Thanks for your comment and have a nice day!
Hehe thanks! It was a gift from my best friend 10 years ago when she lived in Hawaii for college and it's remained one of my favorite shirts for sentimental reasons! :)
Question for you as an American living in the States but in sort of the opposite position: I am fluent in Spanish but learning French and have recently begun to seriously contemplate moving to Europe. I am curious to know your perspective on moving to France versus Spain for someone interested in a long-term move. I actually studied abroad in Spain for a semester many years ago, but I am pretty disconnected. My impression has been that Spain has a much bigger problem with unemployment than France and that French healthcare might be better, but, again, I am not really sure. How do you view the difference(s) between these two countries? And why are you considering moving to Spain? I'd definitely be curious to hear your perspective! (BTW, if you ever made a video on the topic of France vs Spain for potential expats, you'd have at least one viewer!)
Hello thanks for your comment and those are very interesting questions! I'll try my best to answer in my own opinion and perspective. If you're looking to learn French and want to move somewhere long term, then France would be a good idea if your main focus is learning French. (you can move with a student visa to learn the language and look for part time work in the meantime, in hopes of finding a permanent postion). It's true that Spain has a higher unemployment rate than France does, but entering the work field is difficult for both (compared to the US) to get a permanent contract right away. (usually you'll start with a determined contract before signing a more long term one because of the cost for employers to hire employees). Obviously it would be easier for you to find work in Spain being that you already speak the language, so if working is your main focus and not learning French, then Spain would be the more reasonable option. It's not easy to get a working visa right away, because the company has to sponsor it and prove that you are necessary over a local compatriot resident. A good option for that might be to find an American company who needs people to go work oversees and they would take care of the visa requirements. When it comes to my desire to move to Spain, it's a dream of mine for years now to discover in depth the Spanish culture and learn the language. Ideally I'd love to live there for 2 or 3 years before moving back to France. (my plan would be to move there this summer, if all goes well, and you can be sure that I would make plenty of videos about the differences between France, Spain & USA once I'm settled there ^^)
Just curious why a lot of British people moved to France? I know why the Brits move to Spain (for lower cost of living). Is that the case for France too? Cost of living in US is getting super crazy especially in California.
Thanks! I add new French music to that playlist every time I hear a new song that comes out that I like, as well as some old classic songs that all Frenchies know!
Bonjour Jordan, connais-tu des anglophones qui aimeraient apprendre le français ? Je cherche à accompagner 4-5 personnes par semaine. J'ai crée une méthode basée sur le fonctionnement du cerveau pour que cela soir efficace et fun!
That's a good question! If we're talking like basic level introductions, I'd say a few weeks...but when we add in the "comprehension" factor and being able to understand people's responses to questions I might ask it would be more like 6 months depending on the type of conversation. In class teachers might speak slowly and clearly so they can be understood by the students, but on the streets people use slang and talk fast so oral comprehension is probably the part of language learning that takes the longest.
Children's books are exceptionally helpful with language learning. Although, it could be said that readers should pick something that has less fantastical elements too it as terminologies can be quite tricky to learn with fantasy books - at least for me. Try some books that are more straight-forward and less poetic. I'm saying this after I tried reading a children's book, originally written in French, that is inspired by Greek mythology. And I seriously cannot comprehend most of it. Haha!
To learn French is so easy!
Just make sure you are born in France, from French parents, it did wonders for me!
Hahaha la chance ! J'aurais aimé qu'un de mes parents soit français et l'autre américain ! 😅
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Not going to lie
I learned French from my French father 😂
Delightful and enormously helpful. I subscribed with great pleasure.
I love the concept of the children's books!
It's really helpful! With the pictures and vocab that's relatively easy to understand with the context in which it appears, it's a good way to improve naturally as a child would!
Great video! Including your Mom in one of your videos is a nice touch! Well done!👍
Thanks so much! 😊 a few years later and she's still learning French!
Your channel is a treasure of information for the expats !
Your channel is also full of nice links in the description !
Thanks for the comment! I'm trying my best to incorperate new informational videos that can help people going through similar situations that I've been through moving abroad years ago! It helps a lot when people send me direct messages asking about certain topics like moving to France and learning the language, so that I know what type of videos would like to see or learn from!
Probably the reason one would immediately subscribe your channel for..
So cool, I am learning french for about 8 months doing it everyday. Want to live in France one day too.
That's awesome! I hope you're sticking to it! I have some French videos, so maybe it'll help your comprehension to follow along! I speak relatively slowly and simply without vocabulary too complicated :)
@@JordanPatrick Thanks Jordan, yes I have checked out some of your french videos and I can understand them. Deffinetly will be watching some more.
Merci, Jordan!
I hope to live in France in the near future. Your videos have been very insightful. I am learning French through several resources, including music, movies, and podcast. The most helpful tools I've been using are Babbel and Duolingo, but the best resource I've found is the classes I've been taking through my local Alliance Francaise.
I hope to get to your level as quickly as possible!
Hey Beverly, thanks for you comment! That's exciting to hear you'll planning on moving to France in the upcoming years ^^ ...you're getting a good start by learning French in the meantime! (you're ahead of the game! ^^ great news!) If you're motivated to integrate and learn French as quick as possible, I would recommend moving to a smaller French city where less people speak English because you'll be forced to adapt (like I was in Limoges compared to Paris) ...but of course Paris is a beautiful city, rich in culture and diversity, so that is always a good idea as well!
Duolingo is merely a translation course.
Hi, Salut, Jordan,
Like you, I love musics, concerts and songs.
With most applications and on most websites,
the subtitles can be displayed in the same language as the song or the concert.
In my point of view, It’s a great method too, to understand languages and accents, orally. ^^
Thanks.
Comme toi, j'adore les musiques, les concerts et les chansons.
Avec la plupart des applications et sur la plupart des sites internet, les sous-titres, peuvent être affichés, dans la même langue que la chanson ou le concert.
A mon avis, c'est aussi une super méthode, pour comprendre les langues et les accents, à l'oral. ^^ Merci.
Viva la musica ! Comme toi j'adore écouter la musique et même si c'est plus difficile à comprendre... Il y a toujours les paroles à découvrir et ça peut aider sûrement !
@@JordanPatrick Elles sont chouettes tes sélections musicales sur SPOTIFY ! ^^
This is great information! Merci, Jordan!
Thanks for your comment and hope some of these tips can help you when learning a foreign language!
Hey Jordan, that's a great video you've got here. The question of resources is actually extremely important when you learn a language.
As you mentioned at the beginning, the concept of fluency is different from one person to another. I personally believe that if your language skills are enough to cover all your language needs, then you're fluent.
I would say that, in order to find the most relevant resources, a good way to start is to become conscious of the situations you're likely to use French in and then try to find the most relevant resources to help you towards this.
For example, reading children books and listening to music are a great way to expand your vocabulary, to be exposed to French or simply to have fun. But before you spend some time on those, ask yourself whether the vocabulary and phrases you'll find in them will come in handy for your own situation.
As you said, when you were in university, your level of French didn't go as high as you would have needed it to be when you moved to France. That's probably because at that time, you didn't really need French. And the problem is that we tend to forget the words and expressions we barely ever use.
Many people are afraid to read documents that aren't designed for beginners because they say: I don't understand.
Instead, try saying: I don't understand YET. By doing so, you won't limit yourself and will probably investigate further into the resources that are actually relevant and necessary for you and will benefit from them even more than from reading things simply because they are easy to understand. There are many strategies to help you out in these situations.
I love your channel!
Best,
JB
Thanks for your comment, that makes a lot of sense! I agree it's a good idea to use terminology that doesn't "limit" ourselves from achieving greatness or understanding things eventually with time!
When I learned a year of French in university in the US, I had no idea that I would one day live in France. If I had known, then I definitely would have taken the class more seriously and put in more effort to learn at the time. I agree, to see progress, you must put yourself in uncomfortable situations in order to grow! I really appreciate your insight and recommendations!
Happy Easter!
@@JordanPatrick And of course, Happy Easter to you too! Thanks a lot for your answer.
There are French language schools in France. I went to Alliances Française.
We covered in a month what was taught in a college semester, or nearly a year of high school French! It is intense, fast paced and expensive!
If you are NOT a good language learner I suggest a different approach! You will be wasting your time and money. But they try hard to teach.
If you need 2 years of language arts for your degree, 4-5 months there might get you to clep out on the language. But even 4-5 months is daunting if you are not wired to learn quickly new language.
Learning to read French was very easy for me. Learning to speak it was a Very different ball game. Writing in French, for me, was somewhere in the middle of reading and speaking it! But everyone has different skills and abilities.
Bonne chance!
Why am I watching this? I am french.
HAHAH sometimes I find myself watching videos about how someone learned English too LOL
What would be your advise as a native speaker
Thank you for this video! The podcast recommendations are exactly what I need right now.
You're very welcome, glad I could help! ^^ ...if you're trying to improve your French comprehension, feel free to check out my videos in which I'm speaking French! (I speak relatively slow and clear so it shouldn't be to hard to follow^^) Good luck on your language learning adventure!
Jordan, nice to meet your mother. Thanks for some great ideas on how to get better in French. Children's books -- what a great idea. Another great resource is just the videos on TH-cam for people learning French, such as Inner French (Hugo Cotton), Language City (Alexandre de Chambure), and Easy French, where the interviewers talk to people on the streets of Paris.
Thank you!! Yesss I agree, I subscribe to Inner French and Easy French! Those are great ways to hear locals speaking French and it's a great way to learn new words!
J'aime beaucoup NETFLIX pour le cinéma et les documentaires. On peut choisir, et l'audio, et les sous titres dans la langue que l'on veut.
En tant que français, au début, je n'écoutais pas l'audio en anglais avec les sous-titres en français. Je faisais le contraire, avec l'audio en français et les sous-titres en anglais.
C''est bizarre, mais j'ai mieux appris l'anglais comme ça. ^^ Aujourd'hui je mets l'audio et les sous-titres en anglais.
J'ai fait aussi des tests avec l'audio en français et les sous-titres en français, pour le plaisir.
Il y a de petites différences quand ils sont tous deux, dans la même langue. Mais on comprend bien et c'est bien pratique. ^^
Je suis d'accord avec tout ce que t'as dit ! Moi j'ai toujours les sous-titres français même quand je regarde une série en anglais pour la même raison que toi.
La raison que l'audio français et les sous-titres français n'ont pas été pareil parce que c'était pas VO.
J'imagine que c'était une série américaine n'est-ce pas ?
Si c'est une série française ça va correspondre l'audio et les sous-titres ^^. Ça change quand c'est traduit dans une langue étrangère car il y a deux organisations séparées. Une pour l'audio traduction et une pour sous-titres tu vois ?
Ça aide aussi quand tu veux apprendre deux fois de plus des choses au même temps mais faut avoir un niveau assez haut !
J'en ai fait aussi... Mais ça pourrait être fatigant aussi ^^
@@JordanPatrick Exactement. Merci pour l'explication.
Si la vidéo est française ou francophone, alors l'audio et les sous-titres en français correspondent exactement ! Mot à mot.
Si la vidéo est américaine ou anglophone, alors l'audio et les sous-titres en anglais correspondent exactement aussi !
Si on regarde une vidéo américaine avec audio et sous-titres en français, il y a quelques différences entre audio et sous-titres .
Pareil pour l'inverse. ^^
@@JordanPatrick il y a toujours un décalage entre l'audio et les sous titres, parce que peu de gens lisent aussi vite que ce qui est dit, la transcription complète prendrait aussi beaucoup de place. Mais les sous titres permettent de suivre l'histoire, de comprendre les dialogues et de voir l'orthographe de mots nouveaux, à chercher plus tard dans le dictionnaire 😜
Thank you so much for this video ..Great ...😊👍
Thanks for watching :)
I used the Fluenz language DVDs to help me learn French before going on vacation there. Of course, the locals speak it so fast, I still couldn't understand them! Great video, but I do suggest that you leave your suggestions on the screen long enough for viewers to pause them and copy them down (or even do screenshots). Merci!
Hello! Thanks for your comment and suggestions! I'll try to include more texts and for long enough to take some screenshots :). It's cool to hear that you tried to learn some French before traveling here! That's already a lot more than some people do, so I'm sure the effort was much appreciated! Even as an immigrant here when I was working in Paris, I would be disturbed by customers would would approach me directly in English asking for something without first saying "Bonjour"...it's funny how even I took offense to that, because for all they knew I could have been French and not know English. Even just knowing how to say "Hello, do you speak English" goes a LONG WAY in any culture :)
@@JordanPatrick Yes, I always said Bonjour before anything else, and sometimes s'il vous plait at the start, too, for fear I'd forget to add it at the end. Salespersons, especially younger ones, such as at the post office and train station always smiled while I made an effort to say what I needed, then they spoke perfect English while filling my request. Also, once at a cafe, I told the veteran waiter, "I started to order in French, but decided not to." He replied, "Merci." So, a good sense of humor, too. :)
@James Harmon ---- my French 'friend' told me to ''Never Speak to Me in French!"
At first i thought it was funny! A few months later, well..... who needs friends like that!
Such encouragement! (And I was going to French school to learn French!)
Friends come and go, I guess. And that one, well..... zoom, calabasas! (Chao chao!)
Im amazed your high school Spanish helped you a little. I speak Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian and none of those Latin languages helped me learn French. Lol
Weirdly because I speak Spanish I’ve always been able to read in French. 🤷🏻♀️
Hi, thanks for your comment! See, that's what I meant! Knowing some Spanish I was able to recognize what some French words meant based on the Latin base, but you're right, it was more for reading and comprehension!
Also their are some similarities in the grammar between Spanish and French, so that was another little help. It's definitely easier going from French to Spanish than it is the other way around lol😅. Thanks for your comment and have a nice day!
I definitely need an American boyfriend like you when I get back to France that's for sure 😂
ahah say what now
great video! a la prochaine!
Hehe merci beaucoup et à bientôt ! ^^
That s true if you listen to music in another language, it can help you to learn a little bit...
I love latin music, so without even trying too hard, I've learned a decent amount of Spanish through music too :)
Love your Hawaiian Islands shirt.
Hehe thanks! It was a gift from my best friend 10 years ago when she lived in Hawaii for college and it's remained one of my favorite shirts for sentimental reasons! :)
Question for you as an American living in the States but in sort of the opposite position: I am fluent in Spanish but learning French and have recently begun to seriously contemplate moving to Europe. I am curious to know your perspective on moving to France versus Spain for someone interested in a long-term move. I actually studied abroad in Spain for a semester many years ago, but I am pretty disconnected. My impression has been that Spain has a much bigger problem with unemployment than France and that French healthcare might be better, but, again, I am not really sure. How do you view the difference(s) between these two countries? And why are you considering moving to Spain? I'd definitely be curious to hear your perspective! (BTW, if you ever made a video on the topic of France vs Spain for potential expats, you'd have at least one viewer!)
Hello thanks for your comment and those are very interesting questions! I'll try my best to answer in my own opinion and perspective.
If you're looking to learn French and want to move somewhere long term, then France would be a good idea if your main focus is learning French. (you can move with a student visa to learn the language and look for part time work in the meantime, in hopes of finding a permanent postion).
It's true that Spain has a higher unemployment rate than France does, but entering the work field is difficult for both (compared to the US) to get a permanent contract right away. (usually you'll start with a determined contract before signing a more long term one because of the cost for employers to hire employees).
Obviously it would be easier for you to find work in Spain being that you already speak the language, so if working is your main focus and not learning French, then Spain would be the more reasonable option. It's not easy to get a working visa right away, because the company has to sponsor it and prove that you are necessary over a local compatriot resident. A good option for that might be to find an American company who needs people to go work oversees and they would take care of the visa requirements.
When it comes to my desire to move to Spain, it's a dream of mine for years now to discover in depth the Spanish culture and learn the language. Ideally I'd love to live there for 2 or 3 years before moving back to France. (my plan would be to move there this summer, if all goes well, and you can be sure that I would make plenty of videos about the differences between France, Spain & USA once I'm settled there ^^)
@@JordanPatrick Thank you for your reply! That is a lot to consider. I appreciate your help!
Hi, I think that living in the south of France might be a little easier. There are many British people living there, so it might make it easier.
@@joanlynch5271 a lot of British people are more in Dordogne, Brittany, and Normandy than in the South of France
Just curious why a lot of British people moved to France? I know why the Brits move to Spain (for lower cost of living). Is that the case for France too? Cost of living in US is getting super crazy especially in California.
MERCI!
Je t'en prie ! ^^
7:45 You can also use a VPN !!
Agreed, that definitely helps with French netflix!
Loved the Spotify music! Merci
Thanks! I add new French music to that playlist every time I hear a new song that comes out that I like, as well as some old classic songs that all Frenchies know!
Bonjour Jordan, connais-tu des anglophones qui aimeraient apprendre le français ? Je cherche à accompagner 4-5 personnes par semaine. J'ai crée une méthode basée sur le fonctionnement du cerveau pour que cela soir efficace et fun!
How long did it take to become conversational?
That's a good question! If we're talking like basic level introductions, I'd say a few weeks...but when we add in the "comprehension" factor and being able to understand people's responses to questions I might ask it would be more like 6 months depending on the type of conversation.
In class teachers might speak slowly and clearly so they can be understood by the students, but on the streets people use slang and talk fast so oral comprehension is probably the part of language learning that takes the longest.
I know the exact location of the thumbnail haha
Children's books are exceptionally helpful with language learning. Although, it could be said that readers should pick something that has less fantastical elements too it as terminologies can be quite tricky to learn with fantasy books - at least for me. Try some books that are more straight-forward and less poetic.
I'm saying this after I tried reading a children's book, originally written in French, that is inspired by Greek mythology. And I seriously cannot comprehend most of it. Haha!
Arnold lobel is a great author
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