Beginner Conversation Practice: Learn French from Real French People

SmartFrench Course, Book 3: The Smart Way to Learn French

De: Christian Aubert

Narrado por: Christian Aubert

The horse, in French, is "Le cheval". Would you like to be taught to say: "luh shuhvahl", as taught by most products listed (which is correct only when you read), or "luhsh fahl", the way it will sound in the middle of a conversation between two French people, and the way SmartFrench teaches? This difference is true for most words.

Learning French requests that you learn to speak French and that you learn to understand it. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 will teach you to speak. This course will teach you to understand and be understood.

If you enter a conversation in French with no training to listen to it, you will not be able to get what is coming back to you. Then your French studies will be worth nothing. On the other hand, even if you feel hesitant to speak French, you can have a conversation saying just “yes” or “no”, as long as you understand the other person. That’s why developing listening skills is so important. With SmartFrench you will develop two-way conversation skills. Learn smart French.

You will repeat French a lot. That's what you do when you really want to learn French. This is a step-by-step approach to the French language, the best lessons you can add to your French classes. First, you will hear the conversation at a slower pace. Then you will repeat a few syllables at a time, just listening. The step is not to translate. To make sure you only focus on pronunciation, I cut the segments anywhere, sometimes in the middle of a word. Then you will repeat again and I will give you some instructions. In the end, on Audible, you will hear the real recorded conversation. After a few times going through the different dialogues, you will be able to imitate our guests when they speak French.

"We learn through imitation." (The Crown—Season 3, Episode 6).

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René of Paris

HIs career from his backround seems unpredictable. Also, he seems to be a very interesting personality.
Coupled with Course 2, I feel I’m finally beginning to understand how French people talk to each other. Things are getting a little better, but following conservations among native speakers is still difficult. It’s as if, there’s a second version of the language inside the one that is taught more formally. I find the fact that the flow of the sounds sometimes takes precedence over the punctuation in the spoken sentences -pretty counter intuitive for me to follow. These dialogues certainly help - finally something that actually does. I still have a long ways to go, however. I also find that the units of comprehension ( =words ) is often taken apart with the spoken units of sound. As a native English speaker, this again feels quite counter intuitive. None-the-less, French Whisper is little like a Rosetta Stone, or at least like a bridge. To be fluent, both sides of the bridge between spoken French and formal French need to be pretty well mastered.