What's up guys? I'm in the truck right now because
I wanted to show you guys a method that I've been using for learning French that has worked for me really well and
I think I
Really have learned a lot
using this method and
I've learned a lot of vocabulary
I think my my pronunciation has improved a lot and so now my french accent isn't as bad as it used to be
I still have french, [or] I still have an American accent when I speak French, but
not nearly as bad as it was so I think this is helped a lot and
I'm talking about the pimsleur method if you don't know what that is it's a bunch of audio recordings and
basically it's just conversation
one person will say something in French, and then I repeat what they're saying in French and someone else responds to you
and then you just repeat what they're saying and people the other people are saying and then they teach you new
Vocabulary as you go along it uses spaced repetition
So you learn a vocabulary word and then you practice it a bunch of times and then as you progress through the recordings
they
Space it out a little bit more so you're not repeating the same thing over and over and over and over the whole time
They give you a little space to kind of help you
Keep your gears turning and make sure you keep
Keep you on your feet. You know so it's not always the exact same thing that you're practicing every time
I got these cds as a pack of 30 CDS and
Yes, I still use. I have a CD player and
I
believe they have
MP3 versions now or like streaming versions that you can get on your phone, but I'm old school
I guess and I got the type of CDS from the public library for free
and normally it's like I
don't know like
200-300 dollars or something like that and it's worth it like they're it's a great resource. It's great for practicing your languages
But if you have a public library near you I can pretty much guarantee
they probably have pimsleur cds or some other kind of audio CDs that you can borrow for free and
as long as no one else wants a second much just keep renewing them until you're done with the
until you're done with the whole series and
The series that I'm working on right now is French too, and there's about 30 CDs in it
so that's
15 hours worth of practice, and I've listened to
probably about a
number 19 right now, so
I've listened to
what that make it nine and a half hours of
French and I just do it while I'm on my commute to and from
University
so I have about an hour alone commute, and that's why this is such a great method for me because
Just I feel like this wouldn't work
I probably wouldn't be such a great method for me
If I didn't have a long commute
Because I'm never going to take the time during my day to just sit down and listen to Pimsleur for half an hour
but since I already have
an hour every day
Both ways that I'm just sitting in my car doing nothing
It's really a great use of my time. I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something even while. I'm commuting. here comes the rain
This is going to be a fun trip
So now I'm just going to go through
Just one of my tracks that I'm working on in French
So if you're learning french then great just listen along, I mean if you're not learning French
But you want to know kind of what the pimsleur method is
Then just looking along you might not understand [what] I'm saying
But at least you can kind of see how the method is and how I practice what I'm doing this
And turn out to volume a little bit
Hope you can hear this over the rain unit 20 of pimsleur French - I don't want to do
228 an 80 this is unit 19 of pencil Errs French to
You first they just give you a conversation of two people talking so I don't have to actually say anything
You're just going to listen, and I'm not actually listening right now
I'm cheating because I'm talking to you
But normally I listen to the whole conversation
So there's just a lot of repetition, and it's great for really nailing that pronunciation
You can see I was I was sort of struggling with some of those
Pronunciation of some of those words like 'encore une fois' or something like that, but they're going to repeat that phrase
probably 15 or 20 times in this one track and then in the
The next CD and the next pdf of that is going to keep repeating it on
Even more and more probably five or six times in the next PD and then a few more times in this
Cd that comes after that
So you're really going to get down?
that
native speaker
Pronunciation so like I said this is specifically the pimsleur
Program and I think they're great, but I haven't tried a whole lot of other
repetition
Conversational programs, and I know there's a lot out there, and they're probably a lot that are just as good as the Pimsleur one
So like for example. I think there's
Teach yourself
languages is one of the
Companies, and then there's some other ones you can find
Things like this on YouTube you can find a lot [of] free resources
And I can't talk about the quality of those all I can say is that I know pimsleur is really good