Introduction:
If you think that you will have to travel all the way to France to learn French then you are wrong. You can learn it in India as well, without traveling to any other country or even city. All you need is a good course that suits your purpose of learning French. Here’s how you can learn it in India without traveling to France.
In this blog we will look at how you can learn and master the French language by staying in India itself.
Ways to learn French
There are two ways through which you can learn French. The first is offline and the second is the online way. Offline is basically any institute that provides the learners with physical teaching and classroom. Online is learning French virtually from anywhere in the world. Some classes also come with the option of both offline and online and you can choose either of them according to your convenience. Moving forward let us see more about them.
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Types of institutes
Institutes fall under the offline way of learning. There are three types of institutes that teach French.
- Culture centers – these institutes are French cultural institutes that directly depend on the French embassy. It promotes learning french through various sorts of cultural and community activities to create awareness and promote the French culture.
- Alliance Française – the word meaning “ french alliance” is a foundation or a chain of institutes having their French learning centers worldwide. They are also attached to the French embassy so you know they are genuine. In India, they have their institutes in various cities.
- Universities in India – almost all the universities in India offer various French learning courses. You can enroll in any of them if you fit in their criteria for admissions.
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Learning online
There are various websites, apps, or ways through which you can easily learn French in the comfort of your home. It also comes with a set of pros over learning it from an institute. You save a lot of money and time. Learning French can get very expensive and time-consuming, but with learning it online you only have to pay a very less amount or you can also learn it for free.
There are both free and paid apps and websites that teach French. These offer courses of various durations and levels and are personally curated for all learners. These are a total package of all the learning material, test material, video, and audio lessons, live one on one interaction, etc. Listing a few of them below.
- Multibhashi – these are one on one paid online classes. They are amongst the best tools to learn French online.
- Coursera – another best online course to enroll yourself into. They provide classes in the form of pre recorded lectures so you can learn for free and have access to all their material for free. However, you are required to pay a small amount if you want a certificate of completion at the end of your course.
- Duolingo – they provide game-like lessons, where you can learn French through interesting and fun games. This is a 100% free way to learn French. They adapt to a learner’s style of learning in order to give effective results to the learners.
Apart from learning through these apps and websites. You can also learn French through movies, Tv shows, songs, podcasts, audiobooks, radio, etc. these are all online forms of learning and have helped people learn and achieve their learning and perfecting their French.
There are also various institutes that offer online as well as offline courses. One of which is Alliance Française.