Has anyone self-studied French successfully?

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<p>I'm willing to try it, but I'm most concerned about my pronounciation...
Thanks.</p>

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<p>I'm trying to do that right now. My advice is: listen to songs with lyrics and translation handy. It's extremely good way to learn language because:
A. You have fun and stimule.
B. You learn correct pronunciation by natives.
C. You learn commonly used words.'
I'm currently learning French by Mylene Farmer's songs with this site: <a href="http://www.mflt.net/en/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mflt.net/en/index.html&lt;/a>
You might want to watch movies with sub-titles afterwards but I really have no sub-titled movies so I can't advice you on this one :(</p>

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<p>I'm trying but it's really hard... I'll take up mr_chipset's advice though..</p>

<p>I can write pretty decent paragraphs (just basic stuff like what I did today and umm what other people did..?) but I SUCK at verbal. I just cant join sentences up in my head - but i guess that should come naturally when you become fluent..</p>

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<p>i was going to try...but i dont think its goign to happen for me...im going to get help from my old french teacher</p>

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<p>I was self-studying French. It was kind of hard. I didn't try my best, though. Now I'm self-studying Modern Greek and a little bit of Spanish.</p>

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<p>I've taken French since 8th grade, and I just fnished my junior year in HS, and I can tell you from experience... French is a hella tough language! Pronunciation is indeed a very difficult part of it. If you don't have a teacher/professional there to say it for you, its very difficult to get it right. IT seems like a difficult endevour, but if you're up for it... Good luck!</p>

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<p>Try frenchabout.com
The francais facile (easy french) part of rfi.fr You'll find newscasts there in easy french. One includes a transcript. Reading the transcript while hearing the newscasts helps greatly with one's pronounciation.</p>

<p>It also can help if you can do a French immersion program in France or Quebec.</p>

<p>Also get the Champs Elysees audiomagazine, which you can get monthly on CD. It also helps one's pronounciation to read along with it. Great info, too, about France -- culture, history, politics, tourist sites, music and art.</p>

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<p>Are those CD's that come with certain books any good?</p>