#french learning

Since this blog has been inactive for a while, I figured I would catch you guys up with all my languages:

German: I've been pretty idle with my German, but I hope to continue progressing it with my next year of German classes after summer.

French: Same as German, though I'm planning on doing the 75-fluent challenge to get it up to snuff.

Cornish: Cornish has moved up a bit in terms of priority - I've been regoing through SSIC and want to more actively practice my Cornish.

Cherokee: I'm learning Cherokee now! I've only been learning for a few weeks, and I've been using the We Are Learning Cherokee book + the free Mango Languages course. I'm learning it primarily because I live on ancestral Cherokee territory.

So I'm gonna put together some resources I've found/been told about for anyone who might find them useful :)

German Learning Resources

This is a very good Youtube channel which I have used particularly for grammar revision. This guy's videos are very well-explained and contain heaps of examples. The channel has courses which range from beginner vocab to a comprehensive list of grammar right from the basics to more complex stuff as well as lessons on how to do most tenses. Very useful if you're just starting or picking it up again.

In terms of apps and stuff you can use I find Memrise quite useful because it introduces words over time and has functions for recall. If you're studying a language through school you can use it to keep your knowledge up during holidays. However if you're not able/willing to pay for a subscription (like me) then I would recommend you use Memrise simply for vocab/phrases and go elsewhere for grammar stuff - German grammar is ultra important and if memory serves correctly the Memrise free version doesn't teach it so keep that in mind if you decide to use it!

For reading practice, I recommend websites like Deutsche Welle and Deutschland.de because they're websites that you can flip between German and a few other languages, meaning that if you don't understand parts of the German, you can flip it to English or another language to understand what it's saying before switching back to the German in order to translate it.

Another Youtube channel I find useful is Easy German

The channel consists of videos spoken in German with both German and English subtitles for understanding. They do interviews just on the street in various cities and also explore cultural things (e.g. food in various cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland). They also have videos spoken entirely in slow German which are great for helping to develop listening skills, as well as videos at different levels of knowledge and videos which go into certain grammar aspects. They also have a podcast which is very interesting and well-made.

There are also fifty bajillion vocab, grammar etc. sets on Quizlet for all levels of German learning. You can no longer use the 'learn' function for free on there but you can use the 'write' function for as long as you want! It's just a little hidden. Click on 'learn', go into the settings and scroll down until you find the 'write' function. There are a huge number of German teachers on Quizlet who make sets for their classes and those are usually all publicly available for anyone to use. Make the most of their work!

French Learning Resources

I admittedly don't think I have as many resources for French but I'll dig up the ones I can find

This playlist does label itself as specifically for A level level but really it's just information about the key French tenses so they're definitely useful at other levels. From what I've watched of them they're well-explained, though the speech is quiet to you'll have to turn it up!

Conjuguemos is a website which has French activities for grammar, vocab and verb conjugation. I've only really used it to practice tenses and verb conjugation but the vocab section seems to have some interesting stuff. Under the 'thematic' tab you can find core vocab to practice.

(Conjuguemos also has activities for German but I've never used them so I couldn't say how well-made they are)

Like with German, Memrise is a relatively good app for learning vocab, expressions etc. but I would recommend finding a grammar substitute unless you're willing to pay for the subscription version. I've never paid for it and so don't know how useful the grammar lessons are but in terms of learning expressions it can be useful.

There is a huge amount of very well made videos called 1 Jour 1 Question on this website. The videos are all entirely in French. I think they're made for French children so they're generally good for beginners but I would say that they can be VERY fast paced because it's French and they're designed to be short snappy videos to explain a topic. There is a way to slow them down a bit on the website which you can use if you need to. (It does feel slightly silly having to slow down a video made for children but sometimes it really is necessary)

Like with Easy German, there is also an Easy French! I think this channel started later because it has a lot less videos than the German one but the ones I've seen are all very well made! Listening in French is especially important because spoken French can be VERY quick which is why I find this channel so useful. They have French for learners of all levels as well as grammar videos which are spoken in slow French. They also have a fantastic podcast which I need to listen to more because I love it.

As with German, there are also a literal metric ton of study sets on Quizlet!

These are the resources I have! Use them at your pleasure! If you have any more for these languages or other languages please feel free to add them!! More resources is always appreciated.