So I finally watched this video — funnily enough I hadn’t watched Olly Richards until a couple of months ago when I started learning Russian. As a French person you kind of know about the FFL and...
So I finally watched this video — funnily enough I hadn’t watched Olly Richards until a couple of months ago when I started learning Russian.
As a French person you kind of know about the FFL and the immersive French learning technique; it just ends up being something you’ve heard about at some point in your life.
I find myself having implemented a lot of the principles they talk about in the video; especially the advice: watch movies in your target language, always have a podcast running, keep your ear trained for it even if you don’t understand the words.
The environment has got to help so much: being surrounded by people you don’t actually have a way of communicating with other than French, huge motivation to keep studying.
I can actually relate to how incredibly satisfying it is to finally being able to communicate with someone you already know. I have a story to tell, but it is too long for the contents of this comment section.
This is very interesting for language learning (Nutshell: really, really hardcore immersion technique ... anyone caught speaking anything but French, ever, gets a beatdown) ... but it's also quite...
This is very interesting for language learning (Nutshell: really, really hardcore immersion technique ... anyone caught speaking anything but French, ever, gets a beatdown)
... but it's also quite interesting just as a peek into the modern-day French Foreign Legion.
So I finally watched this video — funnily enough I hadn’t watched Olly Richards until a couple of months ago when I started learning Russian.
As a French person you kind of know about the FFL and the immersive French learning technique; it just ends up being something you’ve heard about at some point in your life.
Also reminiscent of this other video: https://tildes.net/~humanities/11n9/how_mormon_missionaries_learn_new_languages_in_6_9_weeks
I find myself having implemented a lot of the principles they talk about in the video; especially the advice: watch movies in your target language, always have a podcast running, keep your ear trained for it even if you don’t understand the words.
The environment has got to help so much: being surrounded by people you don’t actually have a way of communicating with other than French, huge motivation to keep studying.
I can actually relate to how incredibly satisfying it is to finally being able to communicate with someone you already know. I have a story to tell, but it is too long for the contents of this comment section.
Hopefully you can let us know in the next language learning thread!
This is very interesting for language learning (Nutshell: really, really hardcore immersion technique ... anyone caught speaking anything but French, ever, gets a beatdown)
... but it's also quite interesting just as a peek into the modern-day French Foreign Legion.
True immersion, it’s just like back at home in France!