Learning French

[Anonymous No.20322291]

What's the best resource for becoming proficient in the French language? Book/audiobook recs, please?

[Anonymous No.20322327]

English Grammar for Students of French

[Anonymous No.20322332]

>>20322291
Duolingo

[Anonymous No.20323312]

>>20322291
There is no single resource that will take you to French proficiency.
Is it your first second language? If so, you have to understand that the only way to learn and speak a new language is to immerse yourself in it.
Go through the entirety of the Duolingo course to get the basics down. Then go watch a French movie with French subtitles and try to write the words you don't understand. After this, go listen to a podcast for learners and attempt to emulate all the words and their pronunciation that you hear. Download books on grammar and write everything you can (Seriously, this is important). Force yourself to go to discord and /int/ to try to write in French and swallow the critiques you'll get.
If you have the money, invest in a good teacher to talk to you and force you to use the language. Commercial classes with too many people are completely worthless. On that note, invest in a VPN and play video games in servers from French-speaking countries to speak to the players.
Do all of this for at least two years, and I guarantee you will become proficient in no time.
Too hard? Too much investment?
Cry harder, Faggot. If you can't do this, you may as well waste your money on classes where you'll learn how to say “My name is Mr. Fag” in French.

[Anonymous No.20323448]

Refold method
Also >>20323312

[Anonymous No.20323474]

>>20322291
In order to learn a language, you gotta watch like 5k hours of shitty TV series and read at least 120 trashlit books, according to one based black man who mastered a grand total of two languages.

Oh, and you gotta have a dic with you at all times.

[Anonymous No.20323479]

>>20323448
>muh 6 gorillion snailcards
Nobody's gonna fall for your Jewish meme again.

[Anonymous No.20323482]

>>20323312

I took French 1 and 2 in high school and have completed Duolingo, found it to be largely just a rehash of what I already know. Duolingo didn't exactly seem helpful for reading/understanding French texts - more everyday conversation that would be helpful for tourists/travelers, I think.

Most MA programs I'm interested in require a proven proficiency in a European language to be accepted. I'm adding a French Language Minor to my BA, but won't be able to start courses until the fall, which is why I'm looking for ways to work on my skills now. I don't want to waste time.

Thanks for the tips re: immersion. I'll pick up a few grammar books and get to writing

[Anonymous No.20323494]

In all seriousness Karl Sandberg's French for Reading is the best resource to achieve practical French knowledge.

Your conversational abilities won't increase, but your background understanding and ability to read will be a great foundation for you to then engage with the language.

[Anonymous No.20323501]

>>20323494
{{{Sandberg}}}
Yids don't want you to learn how to structure sentences properly and conjugate verbs.

[Anonymous No.20323516]

>>20322291
Pirate Michel Thomas French. Luckily, It's one of the few Michel Thomas Method courses taught by him. After the course, build your vocabulary and reading skills. This method worked for me with Spanish.

[Anonymous No.20323628]

>>20323516
Michel (((Thomas)))

[Anonymous No.20323767]

Any non Jew resources for french proficiency?

[Anonymous No.20323795]

>>20323767
A grammar book.
A dictionary app
Anki (make vocabulary cards, not snailcards or bloatcards)
Some French documentaries and films downloaded from Archive.org
Some Youtube videos
Fuckloads of public domain books in French
...
Eventually move to a small town in France so you can live in an immigrant commune together with some Algerian people who will teach you how to speak contemporary French
Also, get a non-meme degree so you have upwards mobility opportunities

[Anonymous No.20323803]

Is learning French just for In Search Of Lost Time worth it, or should I read a translation? To be clear, it's the only French book I care about reading right now.

[Anonymous No.20323817]

>>20323803
You might start off being interested only in reading high literature, but you might eventually start to expand your tastes in material in the language until you end up watching evening news from France and trashy TV programs just for the sake of getting some "comprehensible input". You might not believe me, but it's happened to me, so it could happen to you too one day.

[Anonymous No.20323854]

>>20322291
A loving french-asian gf to teach you the language of love (of exotic women).

[Anonymous No.20323865]

>>20323854
France has more African immigrants than Asian ones, and there are more African countries that use French as one of their main working languages than Asian ones.

[Anonymous No.20323880]

>>20322327
This and Sandberg's French for Reading.

[Anonymous No.20323910]

>>20323865
That's for creating a large population of blasian oversexualised side-gfs. It is a risky plan, I'll admit, but the rewards...