
Introduction:
First of all, pat your back right away for choosing to learn French on your own. French, descending straight out of the Roman Empire is a beautiful language often known as the language of Romance. Being the official language of as many as 29 countries is enough to explain its popularity worldwide. Learning French is equally fun. But if you think that it is the most difficult language in the world then you are wrong. You are finding it difficult because you are stuck at a place and need guidance for your way out. This should surely never be your reason for giving up learning French. You can find yourself stuck at any level so in that case here are a few things that you must keep in mind and follow.
Seek Help through:
An Expert
This is the best way to address your query because what is better than an expert who can guide you correctly right? You can join a course offline or online that fits your purpose. You can choose to join a class right from the beginning of the course or you can simply pick up from where you have left. Apart from this, there are various websites, apps, or ways through which you can easily learn French for free. Some of these websites and apps are free and some are paid. These courses also come with a doubt-solving option, where you can clarify your doubts in case you have any after going through the course. For example, you can take the help of apps and websites like
- Coursera – the 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. But otherwise, the entire course is free of cost and very great to learn French at all levels.
- 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.
- FluentU – they take real-life videos like music videos, movie trailers, inspirational speeches etc, and convert and compile these into personalized lessons. This seems another fun way to learn French.
- French In Action – it contains a series of 52 lessons that come with different categories. The video lessons are completely accessible and helpful to all types of learners from beginning to intermediate learners. However, they also provide extra material that you will have to purchase, but that is totally optional and extra. Also, these lessons were developed at Yale University which is one of the best universities in the world, hence increasing the legitimacy of this course.
- Multibhashi – they provide paid live French classes. So you can directly learn from an expert right at your homes. Live classes also mean easy doubt solving, which can be very helpful as while learning a new language you tend to have a lot of doubts.
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. you can book any of these and see if it helps to solve your doubt and you can get back on track.
Social Media
Apart from this, you can also seek help on social media, although the legitimacy of the sources and the advice provided is something you cannot really be sure of, a lot of times just talking it through with someone helps too. You can join various French-language groups that are open for all learners and speakers, it is a great platform for exchanging ideas and solving your doubts. Moreover, you might also come across someone just like you who is also stuck at some point, and you both can help each other out or sign up for group lessons.
Conclusion:
Being stuck at a point while learning something new is a common and widely happening phenomenon than you know. At this point as a learner you would also start freaking out as to how you will come out of your situation, will your doubt be ever solved or should you quit learning? All these are very common questions that strike someone, but the key to handling it all is to stay calm and understand your problem first. Then look for ways that can help you, I hope some of the above-mentioned ways will help you.