<p>I have a great interest in foreign languages, and I am a junior in French 4 right now. I've done fairly well up until this point, but our teacher this year has taught us almost nothing and I feel like I should supplement stuff like that by studying outside of class... Do you guys have any idea on how to extracurricularly improve your foreign language abilities? </p>
<p>Hi! Well first off you should read material in French on your own each day, even if it’s only 5-10 minutes. It eventually adds up and helps a lot. Whether it’d be a few pages from a book written in French, from a French newspaper–I recommend Le Monde, it’s great–just type Le Monde into Google. Also listen to French music! Can’t stress this enough! It helps so much in everything, understanding, reading, writing, and especially speaking!!! Mozart L’Opera Rock is amazing. L’assassymphonie is my favorite song by them, so look them up. There is this website called Lang-8.com and it’s great because people correct you on whatever language you choose, in your case French. Busuu.com is also great! In addition, try some online French chat sites, great tool, easy to find, but be safe and be careful. I could go on & on and on! Please message me if you have anymore questions! </p>
<p>Source(s): I take French, it’s my 3rd language, and I’m an aspiring polyglot (on my 4th language now, German).</p>
<p>I’m in a similar position to you. French class hasn’t been too hard for me because our teacher hasn’t really challenged us that much. I’m worried because I’m in AP and while the class is easy, the test seems hard especially the speaking and listening for me. Normally, I either talk to french people online (kinda risky sometimes but most people are nice) or people I know that speak french face to face. I also look up phrases/words in the french dictionary and on forums (like wordreference french) where real people answer because sometimes the dictionaries are too literal and not colloquial enough. And like the poster above me said, french songs and french movies are great especially the movies. Also GoldenMoustache on youtube is a french youtube channel thats pretty funny and popular. Hope this helps :)</p>