Speaking French Fluently

I started learning French when I was in kindergarten...and I took it all the way through high school and half of college. I was, at one point in my life, truly fluent. Unfortunately, I married a man who doesn't speak French, so I haven't been able to practice much in the last 20 years. Along the way, I also took some Spanish, and some Russian (not nearly as hard as you would think). I think the key to learning a language is to start as young as possible, and practice, practice, practice... Bonne chance!

I only speak twp languages. My native tongue is French and English as my secondary language. I grew up in Vanier, Ottawa, Ontario Canada. Vanier is a small french community. If you want to hear some wonderful french music I suggest Lynda Lemay, Vincent Vallieres, Daniel Boucher, Corbeau. For films there is VidOCq and Dans L'oeil du Chat (there are many more great frech films out there). Here in Canada we have Radio Canada which is a great french television channel. Where I live now I speak mainly English, I only get to speak French now mostly when I talk to my family back home on the phone and I at times miss that whole french culture I grew up with.

Because of my love for food and shopping, I've taken the step of managing to learn some of the languages of the merchants that I patronize... Usually, I will overhear the language and try to guage what it is and then order a foodstuff with it... Sometimes, the merchant will be pleasantly surprised enough to start a conversation with you and show tell you some of the finer points of the language that you are trying to learn. In my experience, though, the best way to learn a language is to get a date with someone who speaks it...

I know how hard french grammar can be. There is so many exception. Even when french is your first language grammar can be hard. Since I was 10 years old I've been learning englsih. At 12years old I went to an immersion school. 5month english, 5month academic. it realy helped me improve. I have no problem understanding. I read in english, watch tv, listen to music. But writing and speaking are hard for me. I don't have the chance to practice a lot and I hope MyLot will help me with my writing.

wel languis. im also a language freak. im a pakistanni actually but i luv to larn abt different languages.. im crazy abt it. i ve got courses from paris on how to larn french. i can speak, english, urdu, punjabi, and a lil bit of dutch french and chinese. its fun really. but i ve a question... wen u started learning did u have difficulty with the pronunciation thing.. i felt it so difficult.. bcoz its too different from english pronunciation.. wat do u say

Currently I am work at Hilton Hotel Belém, in Brazil, and we receive many French people. They use wonderful fragances and almost all them are friendly. I'd like to communicate using their language, but I dont have time to learn it. However, I will dedicate some time to do it and travel to France to test my French skills...

Firstly, welcome to Mylot. I had a strong love of French at school, many moons ago now, but the teacher we had couldn't control the class, she was hopeless, my French suffered and it was a miracle how I passed my exam, but I am certainly not fluent, I wish I was. I guess I don't have the aptitude to learn another language. I would love to be bilingual, but I'm no go with teach yourself books or tapes, I have to have a teacher, possibly 1-2-1 but that would be expensive. It has always been an ambition of mine, hopefully to be fulfilled one day.

I studied languages at college and my job was as an interpreter and translator. I am fluent in French and lived in France for a while. I enjoyed learning languages and have found it very useful in life to know a foreign language.

Yes. I speak Portuguese(my country language), English(the universal language) and know a bit of Spanish. I think these 3 languages are good and will help me a lot in the future.

I'm very interesting to learn any foreign language, but to learn foreign language, we must often use the foreign language in our life

omelet du fromage? :o

I live in Indonesia. Here, beside our national language, which is Indonesian, we have so many regional languages, such as Balinese, Javanese, Sundanese, etc. So that, I am as Javanese has to be able to speak in Javanese. But now, after meeting my fiance, I am curious to learn sundanese as well. Because I think it will make me easily to get closer with his family and increasing my knowledge about other cultures. Moreover, I also like to learn Japanese. I don't know why, but I have a big eager to learn Japanese since I was kid. Perhaps it was because of the japanese cartoon movie's influence that I used to see in my childhood. That's why I took Japanese language course for one year during my college time. I really adore Japanese culture, from their life philosophies till thier disciplinary. And it really influences my daily activities. My friends know me as a hard worker. I work hard, because I learn that from the Japanese. Yeah, you're rite, it's amazing how's learning languages can improve our life and also open our mind. Because by learning language, we also adsorb about the culture of another country.

I'm a foreigner in France too. In the first time, my frech is only enough for the regular communication. But I improve it time by time, and now I reckon that it's okay. But I don't think that a year in the university is important.

no i got a chance to learn french but the busy shedule suppresed my intensions.but its really nice know many languages.

I feel that French culture and history is an extremely complex and fascinating one, and to be able to fully enjoy the essence of French culture, one should be able to understand their language. Bravo on thaking the step of learning this complicated language, you will see the rewards of learning it in time to come.

sorry.i don't know speak french.

Well, since meeting my husband, 4 and 1/2 years ago, i've learned quite a few words in his native tongue, portuguese. I can't really start a conversation,but will understand most of any conversations. I also speak french, which is my mother tongue, and english and italian. Here in Quebec, you sort of have to speak at least french and english, although, a lot of Quebequers, want us to speak french only, but hey, it's a free country right? Good luck with your learning french.

I learned French four years ago, and now I really couldn't remember how to speak, I just often use a synonym. Actually it's very nice to learn French cos it would add our knowledge indeed, and even my mainly language is not English, I still interested at French language most.

i like french too .i consider it elegent delicate language but to be good in any language you have to practice it .learn and practice

i really wanted to but there was never been a chance to learn so could u refer any website that i can get the materials to talk with and learn !