About this site

I created this site because I was tired of seeing people teach French the wrong way. If a person can't use the present tense properly after 5 years of study, then obviously, you're not teaching that well.

Anyhoo.....

Introduction to learning French

The best way: Immersion

Get your butt to France (or another French speaking country), preferably a small town so you don't find all that many English-speakers.
Work for and with person who speak only French.
Watch tv (start with cartoons?) in French.
Hang out with French people who are nice and will explain things to you (without using English).
Have a little break every once and a while and speak your own languge (2 hour session daily on a chat room perhaps?).

The Usual "Teaching French in American Classrooms" way (which doesn't work that well)

Teach them a whole bunch of vocabulary words.
Then teach them how to read the basics
Then start right away on conjugating the Present tense.
WRONG WAY!!!
Why?
Because that's the way English is supposed to be taught. But.. English is a speech language, French is a written word language (I'm not gonna explain how to tell the difference).
They are taught differently.

My way. The way classrooms SHOULD be taught.

Learn and practice reading before learning any vocab so that you may get the speech flow.
Relearn sentence structure (since most American schools don't focus on those, but they help so much)
Learn a FEW words a week.
Do a lot of reading and writing.