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JudgeReddit

Reddit, I'm trying to learn French and need some advice

I'm currently a few weeks into old fashioned "book learnin", but at some point (a few more weeks, I'd guess) I will need to start having real conversations in French if I want to improve. Does anyone know of, or recommend, someplace where native speakers of different countries practice this type of thing? Surely there must be a website? When I can meet someone in France who is trying to learn English as well?

Otherwise my best bet is going to be randomly going on Omegle until I meet someone from France willing to trade AIM/MSN info.

Posted Jan 1, 2010, 4:46 PM UTC

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Jellorage•

http://www.sharedtalk.com/

They have chat and voice chat.

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JudgeRedditOP•

This looks perfect. Thank you!

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FasterEddie•

Alliance Française - Google it in your area, can't go wrong.

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JudgeRedditOP•

Thanks, this looks like a full fledged course though. I will bookmark it for when I get further towards that point.

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FasterEddie•

Whoops, so it is. Where I grew up it was more of a social club, and I'd go to their barbecues and boule matches to improve my French (and drink their wine, and meet their daughters). Maybe there's a French club or something in your area - sorry about that.

EDIT: Seems that AF membership does get you invited to this kind of stuff, but it costs...

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jpease•

They offer courses, but they also have social events (wine tastings, French dinners, etc.)

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FasterEddie•

This is what I was talking about - helped me (and many others I'm sure) no end hanging around French people, great way to learn.

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Aardshark•

This is actually one of the main reasons I like internet gaming. I get to talk to people from all around the world and practise the languages I know or pick up words in languages I don't.

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siljak•

Weirdly, Secondlife is pretty good for that. If you are a girl you may want to pretend you're a guy though, or the conversations all tend to end up the same way.

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boourns75•

Try Craigslist

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JudgeRedditOP•

And then I was murdered.

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[deleted]•

Even though it's not related directly to speaking French, I recommend getting the 501 French Verbs if you don't already have it.

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rogerssucks•

I recommend this website: http://www.babbel.com/

It's free!

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