How to Get Really Good at French: Learn French to Fluency and Beyond

by Polyglot Language Learning

If you find yourself overwhelmed trying to memorize thousands of French vocabulary words or struggling to speak with native speakers, try this book! This is not a textbook designed to teach French but a book that will teach you how to learn French the smart way and get you to fluency faster using highly effective language learning methods and techniques.

Many people learn French but only a small percentage of learners can actually speak it fluently. Why is that? There exists hundreds of French language coursebooks, French short stories books, French phrasebooks, but without smart language learning techniques and strategies, you are likely to forget this information and especially during a conversation.

In How to Get Really Good at French, discover how you can easily conquer French language learning materials using highly effective methods and exercises used by polyglots (language learning experts). These methods and exercises can even be used to learn French vocabulary and grammar from TV shows, videos, music, and video games.

Start learning French smarter and faster today!

Genres: France, Nonfiction

88 pages, Paperback

Published January 24, 2019

Reviews

[RICHARD STENTON]

It is always difficult to understand what it takes to learn a new language. This book is very good at guiding you through the process of how to go about learning French. It is a very definitive guide about how to approach learning the language and then how to plan and support your learning process. There are lots of very good tips and suggestions of what to do and what not to worry bout, I believe it will help anyone wanting to be serious and learn French.

[Leah Agirlandaboy]

This is not a book about learning French but about learning to learn French (or any other language). A lot of it is also about how to use one specific app. Tl;dr: If you want to get good at a language, you need to thoughtfully expose yourself to it for several hours every single day.

[Susan Harrison]

Too much Anki

There are some really good ideas in this book, but the author spends too much time describing Anki. Sometimes it feels like a Users Manual for this program. I looked at Anki; it requires a great deal of effort to make it a functional learning tool, certainly more than I am willing to give. On the other hand, immersive reading and listening recommendations were quite useful.

[Lesley Looper]

I appreciate all the ideas for increasing fluency in French! One big takeaway from this book is that it takes a lot of time and practice to get fluent in another language—but there are many resources out there. For now, I’ll keep plugging along on my Duolingo app, but thanks for all the ideas in this book!

[Aida Saldaña Hernandez]

This is a fantastic book! I loved it, it made me reflect a lot about my learning habits. What I most like about this book is that is very positive and in the end I felt very motivated to learn anything and everything! (which by the way is my favorite activity!)

[Carmennation_tan2]

Great help

Many good apps recommended
Just put in the effort to work with the recommended apps and suggestions. Very helpful to a beginner.

[Alysha Dugan]

Aniki promotional book

I feel like all this book told me was to go to a website to study French in an immersive way.

[Shelagh Wadman]

This was only a taster which I hadn’t realised I haven’t read the actual book.

[Joel]

A bit basic but gives a good foundation to your learning plans. More about tips on how to study and not lose motivation than actual French lessons

[Jeanne]

Useful common sense, lots of which I've started to implement.

[Cheli]

This was full of very generalized common sense advice on how to learn French—or really any language. It could have been condensed into a pamphlet and had the same impact. Disappointing.

[PIETER]

I live in France and bought this as a refresher course. It's really not bad, very useful.

[Annie Ingram]

Is this just one big ad for Anki? 😆

[Patricia F. Doutriaux]

I guess I can't fault this book for false advertising. I was kind of looking for a shortcut for how to learn French, but this book focuses more on techniques for language learning rather than on learning French itself. While the techniques and tools for language learning use examples from French, the techniques could apply to almost any language and merely highlight French as incidental to the ideas conveyed. An important takeaway for me, however, was that reading as much French as I can and just watching and listening to as much French as I can is key. I've always viewed French as something that I need to sit down and study, but the speed will come if I treat it as learning I do all the time, however minor or focused, and that I have fun doing it.

[tara]

This book was helpful in making me see the language learning process from a new perspective. As someone who learns french in school, I unfortunately haven’t been taught these kinds of strategies.
It’s great to be able to teach myself how to really learn a language. There were definitely a lot of tips in here that I’ll be using in the future.

[Jeremy M Haslam]

A really new approach

Taking the teaching out of learning — finding ways to bring the language alive for you is what this book is about. A real eye opener - I am going to apply it in my music too — and I’m no young chicken — a good 71.