From the article: Daily French Practice
Daily French practice is a must, as it is only by practicing and using your French that you will be able to retain what you've learned and, eventually, develop fluency. Aside from the obvious ways to practice, like speaking up in class and reading books, what are some other ways you incorporate French into your daily life? Share your ideas
Radio
- If you're sitting around the house, you can tune in French radio stations on the internet and have them playing in the background. Listen to "les nouvelles" on CBC French
- —Guest A. J. Strachan
GPS
- J'utilise ma GPS en voiture. On peut programme qu'elle dit en francais pour les directions!!
- —Guest usagoldie
A French Day
- For starters my son (13) is ry, Monopoly, Risk, etc. studying Spanish. We play board games in French (me) and Spanish (him). Sorry, Monopoly, Risk, etc. We have French Sundays twice a month, complete with guest cards at the table and a full menu on display in French. And...I play French Literati. As a beginner I usually lose but I finish the game and do it quickly. It is most enjoyable!
- —Guest Genevieve
Video games
- I keep the language setting on my Nintendo DS on French, so if a game has a French version then that will play. This came in very useful for my A-Level oral exam, as I play Harvest Moon and the exam mentioned 'des recoltes' which I would never have even guessed without the game! It also gets me thinking in French without even trying, so as I play I think 'Je dois caresser mes poules, brosser des brebis et traire des vaches.' Who says video games are a waste of time?
- —Guest lilacgold
videos in French
- Many videos (DVDs of movies and television programs) have the option of playing them with spoken French, not just French subtitles. Beware the subtitles! - they often don't match either the English or French dialog. It is also quite easy to switch back to English dialog and repeat a scene that I didn't get in the French.
- —Guest Ken
Change car language to french
- I drive a Peugeot but even so, you should be able to change the time, date and warning displays to French.
- —Guest lucyenzed
incorporating french to our daily lives
- Listening to french music, watching french movies, reading novels, narrating your day in french among others.
- —Guest mitchelnoir
How I keep daily track of my french
- I keep a French Dairy which index goes as follows: Vocabulary, pronuntiation, verbs, grammas, expressions, prayers, nourritures and wines, write letters and arguments, locations and sites of interest. I add new entries daily, and each week I review the whole note book. In addition, I speak in French to myself in my mind, and devote around 45 minutes to read and take notes of the various emails sent by Laura. Finally, I read the free Journal Electronique most of the days. Unfourtunatelly, I have no one to whom I can speak French . Fourtunatelly, I have a lot of discipline and a lot of time.
- —Guest Pedro Danilo Castillo
Video Games
- PS3 Games that come with a french edition are very helpful if they have a lot of dialog. For example Assassins Creed games are very heavy on the dialog and they usually have several other languages always including French. I'm in the middle of Far Cry 3 right now (in french of course).
- —Guest Kozak
Re-writing in french
- When you write articles in english, try to translate them into french with the help of your dictionary. This can also help to improve your vocabulary.
- —Guest Silas Onuoha
increase your vocabulary
- years ago I set my cell phone language on French. That is another way of seeing French every day.
- —trienieoosthuysen.
Read Comic Books
- Read TINTIN or ASTERIX adventures published in French and supported by illustrative strip cartoons. For simple vocabulary read Enid Blyton stories, the Agatha Christie before moving on to mre dificult Maigrait stories.
- —Guest Rustylink
Speaking with fellow students.
- I am a student in A level in Uganda and have been learning French for 5years now.I read French story books and try to speak with my friends.
- —Guest Nankunda Lelia
Musique et jeux video
- I listen to music a lot which improves my pronunciation while playing video games and reading books improves my vocabulary. The music and games are great because they dont require me to pay attention to the french when im tired of it (it doesnt happen often). Unfortunately nothing really replaces speaking with someone friend or loved one in french
- —Scott_O
Eat, Wear and Love French!!!
- One bizarrely proven method of acquiring French has been to preserve the used packaging or cartons of international food or skin care products, if they can be stored at all, and try to decipher the language from all the information and literature that is given about them, usually on the reverse or on those miraculously folded-up sheets of paper inside of the cartons. The languages, depending on the country of origin of the product or its brand, are usually English, French, Spanish, Italian German, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese or any other popular international language. With these printed one after the other- with so many translations, it will be very interesting to read, compare, learn or correct what you have read about the product: its description, what it does, how to use it and its ingredients. Read the French and then the information in English. You'll be surprised to note that a lot of grammar can be learnt from them.
- —sreevatsakota
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