<p>well, i find french really easy and it's my best subject. as far as vocab, it's just memorization, and if you can't memorize then you're probably have trouble with most subjects in high school. grammar, i find that if you dont mind grammar in english you wont mind it in french, if you despise grammar in english you shall despise even more in a foreign language. culture-well, nothing really hard about it. overall, i dont think you'll have any problem. bio..see that was my class freshman year that i sucked at.</p>
<p>Alright. Yeah I kind of totally suck at memorizating... hehe which is basically a neccesity(sp?) to do well in school.
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<p>Honestly, don't worry about it. French 1 was extremely easy, but like I said before, it gets harder.</p>
<p>french for me was freaking easy and fun the first two years. then grammer came along....GAH. But really, I love it because I'm excited taht I can understand people and respond now. It's pretty awesome.</p>
<p>ADVICE: Go in assuming everything will be different.</p>
<p>Then, you will be pleasantly surprised at how similar everything really is.</p>
<p>Once you've learned a substantial amount of vocabulary, you'll find most can be easily connected to English counterparts.</p>
<p>Plus, the grammar's very easy and Germanic-like, unlike say, Japanese. (Believe me, I've taken both).</p>
<p>I just finished French 5 AP and I can honestly say it wasn't too hard up until 5, and even in 5 it was only a few isolated concepts (and the fact that I don't pay enough attention in class) that made it difficult.</p>
<p>Je vous souhaite bonne chance avec votre cours. Vous l'aimerez.</p>
<p>don't make such promises, lostinthemusic. :)</p>
<p>French is easy, you only need to know I phrase "Je capitule." (I surrender)</p>
<p>JK, French is a good class. I really enjoyed it and I took four years of it</p>
<p>Thanks =]
I like advice</p>
<p>French I is about learning how the language is put together. That means how sentences are put together in french as far as verbs, adjectives, subjects, etc. You'll also learn some vocab, you'll be taught how to conjugate verbs in the present and possibly passe compose (the french past tense), what the present and the passe compose can be used for. You'll also become familiar with the most basic french idiomatic expressions.</p>
<p>French II, from what I hear, you learn a lot of vocab (but not an unbearable amount) and you learn more about the passe compose and the imperfect tense (the imperfect tense translates in english to "I was...." or "I used to...") and the difference between the two. You'll continue learning more about french culture and francophone countries.</p>
<p>At my school French III is crazy because by the end of the year we know around the same amount of french as other schools' French V or AP French students. This makes it really difficult for me to tell you what to expect. Between French III and the end of French IV you'll definitely learn another 7 tenses (future, conditonal, subjunctive, past perfect, future perfect, past, conditonal, past subjunctive and you may touch lightly on the passe simple). </p>
<p>Don't worry about all those tenses now though! Just make sure you understand the basics before you move on to harder things. Having a complete knowledge of the basic elements of french is vital to understanding the more advanced concepts of the language. that means pay attention in French I! Another good piece of advice is not to focus too much on the similarities between any language you know and french. There are going to be tons of similarities and you can use a lot of your knowledge of english or another language to memorize rules in french, but some rules in french make no sense at all but are critical to learning the language.</p>
<p>I took French One my freshman year, then skipped French II altogether and took French III this year (I'm a sophomore). Now i'm skipping French IV and taking AP French as a junior. I should add that I had the advantage of already knowing spanish though, which makes a lot of the vocabulary in french much easier to learn.</p>
<p>French isn't terrible. I have a really difficult time pronouncing it (French III right now) but once you get it; it sticks. If you have a good grasp of english vocabulary, it'll make it even easier to relate words together. Memorization isn't bad. Right out each word and its meaning a few times. Also say the word like literally 15 times. My (crazy, liberal, vindictive) teacher once made me say "peut etre" 15 times in class because I had a hard time saying it. I can say it perfectly these days. </p>
<p>I spent my first year mostly trying to get the phonics right, once you get that, it makes french really easy to spell and sound out.</p>
<p>KaznackFCRC is absolutely right. The French occupied England for so long that the two languages developed lots of similarities. If your vocabulary is good in English, you'll see the connections between many vocabulary words right away; it's not really so much a matter of pure memorization, which is a daunting task!</p>
<p>... Im taking French 1 but only because it was that or yearbook...
I'll definately take either 4 courses of German or Japanese in my junior and senior year</p>
<p>I love French!!! Even though I want to go into Chemistry, I'm definitely an English/language person... everything just 'clicks' for me, and I love constructing sentences and feeling when all of the words and verbs just ... work =)</p>
<p>The only problem is, you either understand foreign languages or you don't. My cousin works extremely hard, but he simply doesn't understand the way that the language works. I tutor him, and he does well on quizzes and tests because of that extra work, but it's hard for him to understand.</p>
<p>Whoops. The above part wasn't meant to scare you =) What I want to say is that French is very fun, and if you approach it from a certain point of view, you'll love it. Think of it like a puzzle!</p>
<p>Bonne chance, et amusez-vous bien =)</p>
<p>yeah you either get language or you don't...bon chance.</p>
<p>French Is Awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</p>
<p>French's dificulties lie in its irregulars, not just verbs (ETRE) but with rule exceptions. It does require a competent teacher.</p>
<p>I love French, and I really want it to be one of my majors in college, along with Psychology!</p>
<p>i lovee lovee lovee french. today we watched pirates of the caribbean with french subtitles on the bottom! it was sweet. plus we had a food party && ate creme puffs, and tons of other stuff. french is really fun to me.</p>