<p>Hey. I recently have interested myself in the French language! Mainly because I take AP psych and my teacher also teaches French, so the room is filled with french stuff.</p>
<p>I started taking spanish in freshmen year and it's not as interesting, but I would like to go on with it. I am already at the 3rd level for that, but I also learn a lot on my own</p>
<p>I am going to be a senior next year and I would love to be able to enter AP french. I know languages aren't impossible to learn, and I am very committed to learn it since I have some interest in it. </p>
<p>What do you recommend? Any specific textbook material (preferably with something that has sound). I was also thinking reading novels and watch a TV show (I recently got a family DVD and it has a french version of it. Very interesting..)</p>
<p>I also have Rosetta Stone software for french and I am already at level 3. However I don't feel like my vocabulary is expanding though.</p>
<p>I don't think it's a bad idea especially because you seem to be pretty passionate about French. However, keep in mind that the AP french exam is very hard.</p>
<p>Well I can memorize about 500 words a day, maybe 2000 in a month and retain them. That's how I learned English anyway. </p>
<p>My Spanish class is totally a drag. I never do the homework and do it 5 minutes before class and still have an A. We have been learning about imperfect and preterit tense, which I have learned in sophomore year, for the past semester. I normally just read magazines or sleep in that class. </p>
<p>So I could learn a lot of french in that class.</p>
<p>I tried the AP French barron's book. I have no idea where to start since I don't know a lot about french yet. Sadly it's written entirely in French, how discouraging!</p>
<p>I'm in AP French now. It's hard--don't underestimate it. I think it would be extremely difficult for a beginner in French to be able to enter the class, handle themselves, and earn a decent grade on the test, but if you're really, really motivated and have plenty of time to spare... well, all power to you.</p>
<p>First of all, Rosetta Stone is practically worthless. It teaches you by emulating the conditions in which you learn language as a kid; unfortunately, people's capacity for picking up new languages diminishes with age. If you're going to learn a language, and achieve anything remotely approaching fluency, RS probably won't help.</p>
<p>If you're really dedicated to learning French, a class would probably be best. Unless you have an ungodly amount of willpower, it's going to be difficult to study the vocab and grammar you will need without some sort of structure. I'd honestly recommened a community college class, or something along those lines. </p>
<p>Assuming you're deadset on taking the AP French test, you should probably visit the AP boards here. They'd probably know more about self-studying.</p>
<p>oh hey thanks for all the inputs.</p>
<p>I will what those other people can help.</p>