Last updated on December 29th, 2023 at 03:33 pm
Many people are day to day in contact with other languages apart from their mother tongue. Sometimes even for a long part of their lives and they still haven’t learned how to communicate in any other language. This happens because even though exposure is very valuable for learning purposes, it’s not the only thing a student needs.
You need to focus on what you’re learning, break it down, assimilate it and make use of it. Perhaps you have enrolled French courses or you were taught a bit of it in the school, but with languages, the new knowledge you don’t practice is quickly forgotten. That’s the reason why it’s a great idea to take a French for beginners’ course even if you’ve studied French before, it’ll help you to:
- Refresh the grammar structures you’ve forgotten
- Reinforce what you already know
- Use it to communicate your ideas in spoken French
French is one of the most beautiful languages in the world, yet a really difficult one to learn to pronounce. The French pronunciation of most words is completely different from their written form. Nevertheless, there are some general rules that will help you understand and correlate some words because some vowels are pronounced the same way when they’re together.
You also have to keep in mind that there are always new teaching approaches being studied by teachers all around the world, looking forward to make knowledge as comprehensible and easy to understand as possible for students of all ages.
It doesn’t Matter How Old You Are!
When people get to a certain age they tend to think it’s too late to start doing new things. It’s not only about French for beginners’ courses. It happens with many other things they want to try but they don’t dare to. They feel like they are too old or too busy to endeavour trying a new activity they’ve always wanted to try such as taking cooking classes, learning how to dance salsa or how to play an instrument. The main reason? They feel ashamed they haven’t done it before or they think they’re too old for that.
However, it’s never too late take a French for beginners’ course. You may not know it but learning languages helps to develop the part of the brain attached to memory. Yes! It’s less likely for someone to suffer from memory loss when they become old.
It’s not about people, it’s about the method
Another thing that holds people down from trying to learn a new language is that they were very bad at it during their high school / college years. But let us tell you it’s not about you, it’s about the method. Most schools’ methods are obsolete, focusing only writing and reading skills and giving grammar structure more importance than developing communication skills.
In a French for beginners’ course you will see some key differences from schools’ education methods such as:
- Teaching focuses on developing communicative skills
- People get to practice what they learn, not only writing but also speaking
- Lessons are related to subjects from real life, common interests and day to day situations
Once you get on the language learning train you’ll forget all the reasons that didn’t let you start. Learning languages is one of the most surprising and funny activities you can do!
If you’re too busy to attend to a physical school or you want the teacher to be focussed on your development as a student then you can try some Skype session with one of our online French tutors! It’s easier to focus on one student than in a classroom full of them!
