Learning french

Honestly though, why French though?

Other languages are more worthy.

Pitoyable...

My pronunciation is OK but that's a total fluke.

But yeah, like the other guy said, I can't speak or write it, and I have trouble understanding it spoken unless it's slow. I should have admitted that right off the bat, my bad. I assumed too quickly that if you're on Veeky Forums your main interest is just reading French literature and scholarship, which was 98% of my reason for learning the language. Same with German, Latin, Greek. I think learning to pronounce them well is important, but only because you want phonetic consistency so that you aren't tripping up over it.

I will say though, getting up to this level of understanding was on the one hand really satisfying, which keeps you motivated and engaged with the language, and on the other hand a good base for understanding. I post in /fr/ on /int/ all the time for fun and can read along and chat with Frenchfags. But if you want to be seriously fluent you'll need to take a course.

For what it's worth, most of my friends learned German or French the same way I'm describing here, and THEN went on exchange trips for intensive speaking+composition training after they had been confidently reading the language for a long time.

I could never do it the other way around. Even when I took classes I got bored too quickly with spending 5 weeks learning how to have conversation about the weather in German. I passed whole courses without feeling like I knew the language any better than a fucking tourist. Then Sandberg had me reading real German (he has a book on that too) in a few weeks, and writing it on /int/. But hey, everyone's different.

> Duolingo
> Grammar
Don't do this, get a book

How can you read it but not write it? When I learn a language, the 2 go hand in hand.

J'ai trouve que la meilleure methode pour apprendre la prononciation est de lire la poesie a haute voix. Te bats ligne a ligne.

Commence avec l'alexandrin, confie les regles a la memoire.

like what

Just not really all that well. I can write about as well as the average East Euro fag writes English on /int/. Occasional mistakes, intentionally limited vocab because I just don't know how to say certain things idiomatically and I'll probably sound weird.

I feel like German's a lot easier to write but maybe that's just me. French just has so many idiomatic quirks, man.

I like french culture and literature. I've only been there three times but I'll probably ending up moving there later in my life.

Like German and Spanish, even Italian to some extent.

This is if we're talking about Roman alphabets