<p>Ok. I am in french III IBMYP. That class is alright most of the time, my grades are usually between 97 and 85, sometimes a 100, and sometimes a sad 75. I want to get a good solid A in that class. How can I best make my self a good french person/speaker thing. You know. Like the guy who knows everything before hand? What should I do? My teacher grades really hard, so when I make stupid mistakes, it hurts :(</p>
<p>Studying grammar rules and vocabulary in chapters on your own before the class will help you be like the guy who already knows everything</p>
<p>I actually have the same problem with German IV - only I strongly dislike my teacher and am to unmotivated to independently study the language :)</p>
<p>Well, you see, I know the grammar rules, etc, it is just that on these tests and things, out pops words I have never seen, and have no clue what they mean.</p>
<p>in my french 3 ib class for our final we have to sing the national anthem. my french class is a joke we watch movies on fridays, our oral = finding a partner and writing a script and acting it out.. our class average is a 92%</p>
<p>My daughter goes to online sites for her favorite TV programs that are also shown (dubbed) in France. Then she can gossip about scripts and actors with native speakers in wiritten French. To study for French tests have someone read you passages from your textbooks and write them as dictations--then check if all accents and spellings are correct. If there are many mistakes, try again with the same text as few days later.</p>
<p>What are sites in which you can find French TV and radio?</p>
<p>The only ones I know are rfi.fr and TV 5.</p>
<p>Find yourself a french PenPal and email letters in French and talk on the phone in French.</p>
<p>Find a tv show in french and watch it.
I know they have a spanish channel, I don't know about french.
Get some books with tons of verb exercises and practice all of them, you'll learn all the meanings sooner or later.</p>
<p>Hey mike. I had a pen pal. His name was waldo. He was 14. He doesn't check his email no more :(</p>
<p>There is a fan site for The West Wing in French.</p>
<p>set up some..."shady" deals</p>
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<p>afterschool appointments to "discuss grades"</p>
<p>Si tu veux arriver a parler courament francais il faut que tu lises beaucoup. Vas a un magazin pour acheter des livres ou des magazines francaises et essaie puis de traduire la parole. Tu peux aussi bavarder avec ton prof de francais en francais, et comme ca tu appredras tant de noveaux mots et meme un peu d'argot. De plus tu peux ecrire un journal intime en francais au lieu d'en anglais. En faisant ca, tu traduiras tes pensees anglaises en francais et au bout temps tu seras plutot capable de parler, ecrire, et comprendre le francais. Si tu le veux, t'y gagneras! bonne chance et n'oublie pas d'etudier.</p>
<p>There Sagar, I don't know what kyjones05 said, since I take Spanish, but you can get ky's email or sn and talk to him or her.</p>
<p>I think he/she said to get a magazine that is in french and talk to your professor a lot. Write in a journal sometimes in french and translate in english? Yeah well thats all I comprehend. lol</p>
<p>Si ca te dit, te peux m'ecrire a <a href="mailto:kylenyu09@yahoo.fr">kylenyu09@yahoo.fr</a>.</p>
<p>i've been taking french for about 15 years and i still dont feel fluent, but i think you should focus on grammer, and vocabulary and pronnuncation, i used to talk to haitians or french speaking people to pick up on the vocabulary they use, and the way they use it.. c'est tout je pense :) bon chance</p>
<p>Start listening to French music and reading translations. Worked for me and German...I've been a year ahead of my German classes since German II thanks to Rammstein.</p>
<p>go to your local library and check out the videotapes on "French in Action". It is a show developed at Yale about 20 years or so back to teach college french. I've heard its supposed to be a great way to improve french fluency since they don't dumb-down the language; the idea is to emulate an immersion experience so they deliver french from the start at full-speed and more than you can comprehend.</p>
<p>The show is shown on PBS regularly, and can also be viewed at <a href="http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html</a></p>
<p>kyjones comment sais tu parler francias? Moi aussi j'habite a Chicago. L' annee derniere j'etais dans une ecole qui s'appelait Lycee Francais de Chicago. Mais boeuf mon clavier manque les accents ou plutot je suis faineant.</p>
<p>I think schools in the United Stats focus too much on grammar and book oriented affairs. The language can be adopted easily through immersion.</p>
<p>Nosx, I went to the same kind of school as you did. It was called the French American International School, or Lycee International Franco-Americain in San Francisco. All of our classes, starting in Kindergarden were in French, except for classes like English, or in 8th grade our US History class. The thing I loved about my school is that we did not really focus as much on grammar, but we did a lot of reading and speaking out loud, of course since the classes were in french. The only bad thing about that is for high school I decided to go to a boarding school, and my freshman year I was put into french 3 because my grammar was not up to par. But otherwise, immersion is the best way.
And to whoever started this thread - if you can during the summer, I'd suggest going to a place like Montreal and seeing if you can stay with a french family. There are a lot of inexpensive programs that can help people do things like that. Also rent some good french movies. My suggestions are: Les Visiteurs or A Bout de Souffle by Jean-Luc Godard - that is one of my all time favorite movies.</p>
<p>Yea same here. I left for personal reasons, well mainly the kids didnt really seem like learning and it was way to expensive. But if any of you want to learn french all you have to do is go to say Paris, and in 3 months you can basically speak french (seriously).</p>