Hi all
Can anyone recommend a course for learning holiday french?
The kind of things I’m after are phrases like “a table for four please”, “Can we park here?”, “How much is a train ticket to Paris?” etc.
Olly
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Maybe try Duolingo. Memrise is good for learning individual words or short phrases. Duolingo, on the other hand, is better for speaking, reading, writing, and listening to longer phrases. Hope I helped!
Ahh I’ve stopped using duolingo as, half way through the tree, telling someone they have a beautiful cat only helps so much.
There’s very little there as far as real world situations.
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Have you tried memrise official courses French 1 etc?
A few years ago Memrise made a series of “hacking” courses well-suited to getting of to a fast start for holiday travel. http://www.memrise.com/course/46239/hacking-french/
Start there for some quick functionality.
Other resources I recommend for travel are a Rough Guide pocket phrase book, and downloading the first several Pimsleur lessons.
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Besides “Hacking French” there is Ben’s beginner course with 306 words/phrases/sentences available:
Probably the same beginner series like the other course “Learn Basic BR Portuguese” which I had finished in the beginning.
Personally I liked the mixture of 362 single words with a few phrases/sentences, playing around with some verb tenses, there probably even were some examples with more advanced stuff like Subjunctive (I am not sure…has been a longer time); IMHO a great introduction to a language when you totally start from scratch without being hit by a quite long CEFR Duolingo tree which might take you ~1,8-2,3 years to get through it.
The bonus are the available native MP3 recordings (no TTS) incl. sentences.
98 French phrases/sentences: https://www.memrise.com/course/565843/hack-french-in-100-sentences/
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