That’s a very dubious assertion; I know for certain that speaking French fluently is not going to make a conversation in Spanish intelligible at all to you, nor one either in Portugese or Italian. It must be taken very generally: ...
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What is a good native french dictionary and grammar book?
Business EditorsLe petit Robert a ma préférence pour refléter et définir le français contemporain, par son amour des mots, plus que des définitions. Les définitions sont adaptées aux mots : tous ont leur transcription phonétique, certains ont leur histoire, les idées ...
Similarity of French and English languages !
Associations EditorsThe Foreign Service Institute of the Department (FSI) of State estimates the time to learn French for native english speakers at General Professional Proficiency to 600 class hours. See http://web.archive.org/web/20071014005901/http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november/learningExpectations.html which will give you more informations about their students and ...
Techniques to improve pronunciation when I can manage to say parts of the word but not the full word (e.g. 2 nearby R sounds)
Associations EditorsI don’t know if it’ll work for you, but my technique for hard-to-pronounce foreign languages where I can manage to pronounce individual syllables but not full words, has been to do slow pronunciation drills, working backwards from the end of ...
How to help a friend learn French?
Associations EditorsI started learning French 2 years ago. From my experience i find that intensity is key to learning languages. It doesn’t really matter how you are doing it as long as you are doing something. Don’t worry too much and ...
Monolingual learner’s dictionary with small defining vocabulary
Associations EditorsI do not think that such a dictionary about the French language (as far as I know) exists. To the best of my understanding of your question the books below could consist of a starting point for constantly increasing French ...
Modern French prose/fiction authors to read/listen for French language learner
Business EditorsWhy not Maxime Chattam books ? 🙂
How should I refer to my Master’s degree in professional contexts?
Associations EditorsThe diploma called “maitrise” is now a diploma that can be delivered at the end of the first year of study in what is called the “second cycle”; it is called an intermediary diploma; the diploma called “master” is delivered ...
French analogs to EngVid.com?
Business EditorsI know EngVid.com mainly from its YouTube channel and I have been looking for similar channels to list them on my website. There are several good channels for learning French, but not all of them have subtitles. With subtitles: Français ...
Are there any textbooks based on the natural method?
Business Editors@citizen: That’s a great question… The only book that I have been able to find that matches your description, is a book called “Easy French Reader,” by R. de Roussy de Sales (ISBN 978-0-07-142848-4). The book starts off with “easy” ...