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Learning a new language is not very difficult. You only need to get the basics right, and the rest will follow. Once you know the essential French verbs, just add the most common phrases and you are ready to speak.

People who tend to have problems when trying to learn a new language don’t start with the basics. It seems obvious, but actually it’s counter intuitive. Student thinks that they need to take hours and hours of grammar lessons to be able to speak another language.

Let’s review the most common used verbs in the French language.

You need to know that even if there are thousands of French verbs, only a few of those are used on a daily basis. Obviously, you are not trying to learn French to become a professor, so just stick with the basis.

Just use the verbs that are used more than the rest. Like this, you will quickly be able to speak in real situation. The only difficulty is that you need to know how to conjugate them. This is another story because French conjugation is far more difficult than English.

Here are the five most common French verbs: Le verbe (the verb) être (to be), avoir (to have), faire (to do), dire (to tell), et (and) aller (to go).

Master these five verbs, and just learn a few words everyday. I like the number ten, so try to learn ten new words a day. After a few week, you will be able to have a French conversation with anyone (including me!).

Let’s conjugate the verb être (to be) so you can start right away:

Le Verbe Etre au present (The Verb To Be At The Present tense)

Je suis (I am)

Tu es (You are)

Il/Elle est (He/She is)

Nous sommes (We are)

Vous êtes (You are)

Ils/Elles sont (they are)

Once you memorize the verb être (this will only take a few minutes of your time), and then, the other four most common used verbs, your learning curve will increase considerably.

Becoming fluent in French all boils down to mastering the basics.

Franck Silvestre is a native French speaker who teaches others how to speak french On the Internet. Do you want to be fluent? He also write reviews of learn French softwares that help you to Speak French Faster, read his rocket French review today at http://www.learnfrenchexpert.com

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I hate to be the one to tell you this, but learning to speak French isn’t easy – although there are certainly things you can do that can make it easier. If you’re an English speaker (rather than Italian or Spanish for example) you’re starting from a particularly difficult position. Everything about French grammar and phrase construction is different. So let’s look at some French language resources that can make your life a good bit easier.

For a start you’ve got the internet and any number of websites where you can start to learn French for free. A quick browse through a search engine will turn up lots of places offering bits and pieces of free French lessons. OK, it’s probably not going to make you fluent, but you’ll certainly find a few sound clips and French MP3s so you can listen to things like the French alphabet and extracts from the language. Just listening and repeating is a convenient way to start to get the hang of how it feels to speak French yourself.

Some of the better online French language resources also offer short animated films of situations that you might come across on a trip to France. They’re a great introduction to learning about what happens and how to use the language in real French life and they’re entertaining too which always makes learning French easier.

Unfortunately to get any level of fluency you’re almost certainly going to have to pay eventually. Once you put your hand in your pocket a whole new world of resources opens up.

There are French language lessons (although attending regular classes can be a bit awkward if you have time pressures) or one-to-one tutoring (which might be a bit expensive). Either one is still an excellent approach though if you have a native French speaker as a tutor.

Then there are plenty of books of course, and I’m a great fan of a good read, but these days with various DVD and software packages that’s a less popular option.

It’s the software packages I’ve just mentioned which are probably the best French language resource available at the moment and their capabilities are in some cases close to a complete wish list.

You can get modern French learning systems that have interactive lessons with French MP3 sound clips (which you can copy so you’ve got lessons away from your PC), interactive flash cards for learning French verbs, short entertaining video sequences, thousands of pages of transcripts you can read and all with real French people speaking. On top of that you can get some with short try-before-you-buy courses so you can satisfy yourself before parting with your cash and even money-back guarantees.

And all this can be found for about the same as you would pay for one series of classroom lessons. For me, that’s the sort of French language resource I would be looking to take advantage of. It may not be easy to learn a foreign languages but programs like these make it as easy as is possible and fun too. I wish they had been available when I started to learn French!

Author: Dennis Cordy
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