I'm trying to learn French & Italian and to be honest I'm totally rubbish. Is anyone aware of web sites (free ones) that use interactive learning which would help. I was thinking that maybe a school teachers resource would do the trick.

Sesame Street in French?

[Edited on 1/2/08 by Mr Whippy]

The Rosetta Stone software is very good, and is used by many schools. Not cheap though.

I used their demo German course and STILL remember the dozen or so words it taught me, even after quite a few years.

OMG it's 140 quid! and that's just level 1

err anything cheaper, I'm Scottish you know...

I've got on very well with Michel Thomas. His is a unique way of learning without having to take notes or try to remember anything. Right up my street. I used his French course but he does Italian as well
http://www.michelthomas.com/

Also,there is a free course About French. This comes as a twice weekly email and is full of good stuff.
http://french.about.com/

I listen to French radio every day in my workshop and it is amazing how much easier it becomes once your ear becomes tuned.

Anyway, hope the aboe may be of some help

atb

John

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Originally posted by John Bonnett

Also,there is a free course About French. This comes as a twice weekly email and is full of good stuff.
http://french.about.com/

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This before you know it course is good. I started a bit with Arabic only to realise most people at work speak Urdu

I had to learn French; and fast, once I found myself over here. Like everyoneI had a bit of school french but that's not exactly modern. The one thing that helped me to make a huge leap forward was to rent DVDs and watch them in French with English subtitles. You understand you carry on watching, you don't, read the subtitle. This way you learn modern french and the phrases you are likely to need in real life. Choose your film carefully!

Have a look at this site......http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/

HTH

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MikeCapon said:
Choose your film carefully!

Good advice Mike. Le Chocolat with Juiette Binoche is a really good film which can be seen in both English and French.

Do you have any recommendations and do you know beforehand if there are subtitles, eg is it on the sleeve/box.

Cheers Mike

John

Almost all the DVDs for sale over here have a variety of language choices and usually it's marked on the DVD sleeve, not alaways on the box as I imagine the boxes are market specific
Edited to add: As far as choice goes, watch the sort of film you usually would - just avoid those where the dialogue is non existent!

[Edited on 1/2/08 by MikeCapon]

Rosetta stone software is very well seeded if you know what I mean

Have a search

Edited: I would never have thought about it.....

[Edited on 1-2-2008 by vindicator]

Have you tried the stigs approach?

also worth having a look at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/index.shtml#hptab

and

www.lost-in-france.com

and have a look through the forum a few more sites suggested

atb andy