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Originally Posted by dwightks
Hi everyone, I was thinking about learning some french. Alizée has had a really big effect on me and I feel like learning french is a good idea. I just have a few questions.
1. Did anyone here have the urge to learn french because of Alizée and did you actually succeed.
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Yes and yes. I'm still not great with understanding spoken French, but I can read it pretty well and speak and write it. I still make mistakes, though.
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2. What materials did you use and how long did it take you.
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I started with an on-line beginner's course. I used Rosetta Stone for a while, and Yabla. I read French on-line newspapers. I have several Facebook friends from France (including Alizée and her papa, plus another Corsican photographer and an amazingly talented artist, writer, and poet living in Paris) and I always read what they post which is usually in French.
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3. Is French a hard language to learn?
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I have not found it difficult, but it will depend to a large degree on what your background is.
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I already know a few languages. I'm fluent in English, I can understand Tamil and Telugu (indian languages), and I can read, write, and somewhat speak Japanese.
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Of those, English is the only one that will be of much help at all. English shares a lot of vocabulary with French because of the Norman conquest and the close interaction between England and France over centuries. Indian languages at least fall into the same overall language group as French (Indo-European), but they're not really very close. Japanese and French are completely unrelated.