My story : Why I created a blog about learning French
Hello everyone, welcome to this video, I am Thomas Ricomard from the
blog Fast French Learning. In this video I'm going to share with you what is my project,
Why I created a blog about learning French ?
1 ) How to improve my English ? How to improve learning a foreign language ?
I lived 7 years in Geneva, in Switzerland, which is an international city.
It's a city, separated into language groups : French speakers, English speakers , Spanish speakers, ...
It is impossible to meet the people from Geneva (the French speakers), the Swiss people stay between them.
The only way to meet people was to speak English, to improve my English, to meet the English speakers.
-French-English exchanges :
Every Saturday in a restaurant bar, we made groups from 2-3 to 4-5-6 people, we talked during 2 hours. I had a notebook (I still have it). At my place, before sleeping, I watched movies and I wrote in my notebook what I didn’t understand from the movie, I came back to the language exchange with my notebook and I asked to native speakers
* “What does it mean ?”
* “How do you pronounce this word ?”
* “In which context can we use this expression ?”
* “Are there different ways to say that ?”
* …..
That was very helpful, I improved my English → it was a time to learn the language. I never improved enough to have the same talks I have in my mother tongue (French), it is frustrating but we have to go through steps to speak fluently, whatever the point we want to reach we need to go through steps.
With some of these people, we became friends and we continued to see each other during the language exchange and as well out of this moment (we went to eat at the restaurant, in bars, we went to karaoke nights where I sang in English, I should make a video about learning languages with songs and only music, that’s very interesting). During these moments I spoke the “real english”, the one you need to know to meet people, to party, to have fun, it was a time to really speak !
Only with this event I had more than once a week to improve my english, which was very nice !
-Meeting between foreigners :
Every Tuesday I went to foreigners meeting :
Mundo Lingo. It was more to meet people than to learn more the language, but I spoke English half the time, so it was very good to practice the “real english”, the english you speak when you meet people randomly in a bar or somewhere else. That was very cool as well because I met people from all around the world (Americans, South Americans, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese,…)
I met friends and we saw each other at other times during the week, to continue to speak sometimes in English and sometimes in French, because some English speakers wanted to improve their French.
-Cultural exchanges :
Every Tuesday I went to foreigners meeting :
Couch Surfing. Meeting people from all around the world. Speaking French and English, having fun.
I met a lot of English speakers, the French language is very hard for them.
So I asked myself the questions :
* What are the links between English and French ?
* What are the common elements between these 2 languages ?
* What in the English language makes it easier to learn French ?
* What in the English language is a barrier to learning French ?
I started asking questions and I continue to search.
2 ) What are the memorization techniques ?
