1. Understand the Language Learning Journey
- Learning a language isn't hard. It's just LONG.
- It takes 600+ hours of study to reach fluency in French
- extreme, if you study really intensively, you can rack up 40 hours in one week! You can achieve fluency in ten to twelve weeks at that rate.
2. Intensity is vital to learning a language quickly.
- The faster you can climb, the less you will slip back.
3. Be kind to yourself
- Expect a lot of fog and confusion for the first few hundred hours. It'scompletely normal and you're not stupid. EVERYONE feels this way,
4. Prepare for the journey
- absorb the sounds of the language before beginning serious study
5. Practise looking stupid
- You cannot speak a foreign language without feeling stupid at some point. You have to get over that.
6. Find out where you are (and therefore what the next stage is)
- CEFR levels (https://www.french-test.
com/blog...) as these are now standard across Europe. - If you want find out approximately what level you are, you can take our test here:
7. Set goals
Short term goals can be as simple as how many hours of study you will do each week.
Set longer terms goals like passing a specific CEFR level
8. Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
9. Recall is more important than revision
- Practising recall has proven to be 300% more effective than revising
10. Rote learn set texts in French
- my number one trick and I've found this to be singularly the most effective method in acquiring a language rapidly.
- Listen to the piece at least ten times (repetition) before starting to try to learn it.
- Give yourself a week to learn the piece. Why? Because after seven nights ofsleep, something magical happens...
- Sleep is vital to memory.
- Don’t deprive yourself of sleep for too long after you've learned or practised something.
13. Learn about learning
