I wanted to show you guys a method that I've been using for learning French that has worked for me really well and

I think I

Really have learned a lot

using this method and

I've learned a lot of vocabulary

I think my my pronunciation has improved a lot and so now my french accent isn't as bad as it used to be

I still have french, [or] I still have an American accent when I speak French, but

not nearly as bad as it was so I think this is helped a lot and

I'm talking about the pimsleur method if you don't know what that is it's a bunch of audio recordings and

basically it's just conversation

one person will say something in French, and then I repeat what they're saying in French and someone else responds to you

and then you just repeat what they're saying and people the other people are saying and then they teach you new

Vocabulary as you go along it uses spaced repetition

So you learn a vocabulary word and then you practice it a bunch of times and then as you progress through the recordings

they

Space it out a little bit more so you're not repeating the same thing over and over and over and over the whole time

They give you a little space to kind of help you

Keep your gears turning and make sure you keep

Keep you on your feet. You know so it's not always the exact same thing that you're practicing every time

I got these cds as a pack of 30 CDS and

Yes, I still use. I have a CD player and

I

believe they have

MP3 versions now or like streaming versions that you can get on your phone, but I'm old school

I guess and I got the type of CDS from the public library for free

and normally it's like I

don't know like

200-300 dollars or something like that and it's worth it like they're it's a great resource. It's great for practicing your languages

But if you have a public library near you I can pretty much guarantee

they probably have pimsleur cds or some other kind of audio CDs that you can borrow for free and

as long as no one else wants a second much just keep renewing them until you're done with the

until you're done with the whole series and

The series that I'm working on right now is French too, and there's about 30 CDs in it

so that's

15 hours worth of practice, and I've listened to

probably about a

number 19 right now, so

I've listened to

what that make it nine and a half hours of

French and I just do it while I'm on my commute to and from

University

so I have about an hour alone commute, and that's why this is such a great method for me because

Just I feel like this wouldn't work

I probably wouldn't be such a great method for me

If I didn't have a long commute

Because I'm never going to take the time during my day to just sit down and listen to Pimsleur for half an hour

but since I already have

an hour every day

Both ways that I'm just sitting in my car doing nothing

It's really a great use of my time. I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something even while. I'm commuting. here comes the rain

This is going to be a fun trip

So now I'm just going to go through

Just one of my tracks that I'm working on in French

So if you're learning french then great just listen along, I mean if you're not learning French

But you want to know kind of what the pimsleur method is

Then just looking along you might not understand [what] I'm saying

But at least you can kind of see how the method is and how I practice what I'm doing this

And turn out to volume a little bit

Hope you can hear this over the rain unit 20 of pimsleur French - I don't want to do

228 an 80 this is unit 19 of pencil Errs French to

You first they just give you a conversation of two people talking so I don't have to actually say anything

You're just going to listen, and I'm not actually listening right now

I'm cheating because I'm talking to you

But normally I listen to the whole conversation

So there's just a lot of repetition, and it's great for really nailing that pronunciation

You can see I was I was sort of struggling with some of those

Pronunciation of some of those words like 'encore une fois' or something like that, but they're going to repeat that phrase

probably 15 or 20 times in this one track and then in the

The next CD and the next pdf of that is going to keep repeating it on

Even more and more probably five or six times in the next PD and then a few more times in this

Cd that comes after that

So you're really going to get down?

that

native speaker

Pronunciation so like I said this is specifically the pimsleur

Program and I think they're great, but I haven't tried a whole lot of other

repetition

Conversational programs, and I know there's a lot out there, and they're probably a lot that are just as good as the Pimsleur one

So like for example. I think there's

Teach yourself

languages is one of the

Companies, and then there's some other ones you can find

Things like this on YouTube you can find a lot [of] free resources

And I can't talk about the quality of those all I can say is that I know pimsleur is really good