I’m Learning French!
Barefoot Blogger · Learning FrenchThe Barefoot Blogger is learning French!
For all those ‘doubters’ out there who think the Barefoot Blogger will never learn French, here’s news.
After two years living in France, and during a short visit to family in the States, I’m taking French lessons seriously. Seriously.
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I would suggest Michel Thomas cd’s
Check him out, super interesting story!
Plus proven, unique way of learning. You will be building sentences in no time, I was.
Thanks Fiona good suggestion for learning French (or any language).
Hi Deborah
You may also want to try DUOLINGO – it also is quite interactive but has a ‘grammar’ section that you can click on if you want to know why you may have got the sentence wrong . Good vocabulary builder. I use both MindSnacks and DuoLingo
Hi Sue: thanks I will make sure to pass that on to Deborah. There are several other contributors who have mentioned DUOLINGO as well. Thanks for following and signing up for Perfectly Provence.