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Both of these books have their own places. I recommend both of these books, but they need to be used at the right time to benefit better. Let me add a third book so things get more clear for you. 1 - When a person is new to language, A1 level. Then books like Teach Yourself or Hugo 3 months series etc will work best. They explain things a lot and at that stage, you need it. 2 - When a person reaches good A2 level, then Assimil book will work great and will help go to B1 level. 3 - In order to get better at B1 level and go above, we need to ditch translations and focus content more and more in French language, for that we will use Le Francais Par Le Methode Nature. Short summery, both are great resources, but should be used at the right time. And I used both of them.

@AdamYLM I have watched a few of your videos, and I must say that you go above and beyond in your videos and explanations. My daughter and I are beginners in french. I'm trying to teach her, which is challenging when I am a beginner myself. I will get the beginner books you mentioned and start with those. We also read kids' french books, and we watch French Facile on RUclips he speaks very slowly and has dual subtitles. I have started to learn french to help my daughter as she is learning French in school. The last time I learnt french was in high school. Thanks again for your thorough explanation.

Never heard of it, but will surely check out.

Hello there again, I found this book thanks to you. And based on my current French level, this looks like exactly what I need. Thank you so much for this suggestion. I will most likely review this book too in future.

Since you are at A1 level, my suggestion would be to get Assimil French with ease book, and once you reach lesson 14, start doing Pimsleur also with it as side resource. Do both together and at the end of Assimil, you will be at strong A2 level and since you have used Pimsleur, you will be able to talk also pretty good.

@@ciarra0328 Depends on where your language level is. If you are a complete beginner, then definitely get a self teaching basic language course. If you have completed that then reading + comprehensible input videos + Pimsleur for speaking practice.

ctd. US English is very poor with no finesse of word or style. Remebering the old times, when the discussion forums were still around, which have been removed now. But the level of German has not improved, the errors not removed, Duolingo supports all the languages prejudices Europeans may have about US. Yes and all the useless sentences, you mentioned. The US English that is used is often so poor, that I often understood the Spanish beforehand, trying to work out the US English. Travelled US for 6 weeks, never had trouble to understand or be understood. .And all these childish reminders to continue learning, calling me babe etc. sounds retarded to me. My grandchildren will soon be in high school and I will pay them if necessary, if they do not use Duolingo. ;-) Language transfer Spanish I like very much, because of my Latin and English background, I understand all the side remarks, but also the Old Greek hints. I watched the course once, also did the non recommended, wrote the whole course down, identifying "all" the rules, and now the 3rd walk through, looking even more closly, and watch for some rules poping up in my brain considering my German, or other languages. One of my big benefits is with new Spanish words in texts/videos related to English/French/German automatically show themselves now. Memrise I still use, Videos and the word training, the repeating of "learned" word, very easy, no nonense talk in between. The AI dialogues are weak. For one they insist on topics I am not interested in, or have no experience in, so I find it stupid to answer, such dialogues can be broken only by being rude, unfortunately. Also if I ask the AI a counter question, it sometimes confuses its role and thinks it is me. Alltogether at my age 72 I follow my own language learning ways - a mi manera. And in Europe I can go so many different countries to learn easily. One of the ways I learn is youtube, 100, 200, 250, 300 ... 600 sentences of a language, I do the English Basque and the Spanish Basque tandems. When hiking in the hills the audios, at home als going through my self made notes, vovering one language column and "guessing" the other, repeating without instant memory necessity works well, Basque and Spanish one must switch often in the Basque country, so that prepares the brain to do so with ease. Good luck to you.

Thank you for sharing your perspective, your story was interesting.

Feel free to share your thoughts.

@@AdamYLM Everything here can't be shared outside Y.Tube rules.

Language transfer is made by another person. Paul noble course are all made by Paul himself.

Wow, definitely checking that out.

I have read tons of things ever since I finished this book, but I didn't studied this next book. Reason is because I am still not at B2 level. That book is a grammar teaching book which exposes you to C1 level grammar. But once I am at B2 level, definitely trying that book.

So pimsleur is a speaking course. If you are using this course, your goal should be to learn speaking the language, not learning overall language. Do only the first 3 levels of pimsluer, then start talking to people online for free. Or use teacher from Italki etc if you wish to invest so money. For overall learning, 1 - Get a basic starter course. Like Teach Yourself French or a video course. If already done. 2 - Get Assimil with ease series book. If already done. 3 - Start reading in new language and watch videos that your can understand at your level. And keep increasing reading and video difficulty level with time. Regarding Lingoda, never used it myself so can't really say much about it. See if you can find a non paid review of Lingoda, then decide from there.

@@AdamYLM thanks. Ive finished 5 levels of primsleur and want to improve my speaking. Will try italki

Learning a language properly in 3 months is not possible from zero, unless you know a similar language to it. But here is what you can do and this is what 3 months of hard work will take you to: 1 - Start with Paul noble audio course, 30 mins new topic, 30 mins revising what you listened to yesterday. So thats 1 hour for Paul noble. 2 - Pimsleur course each day from level 1. so that's another + 30 mins. 3 - Teach yourself French book. 1 hour each day. 4 - After you finish Teach yourself book, get a phrase book and start watching French videos designed for new learners on RUclips. All this is 2 hours 30 mins of study everyday. If you can add more time listening to podcasts etc, then its even more better. After 3 months, it will enable you just enough to barely speak and find ways to talk to French people. It will be difficult, but it will be far better than your brain not able to process French at all.

@AdamYLM highly appreciated.. thank you, thank you.. for your clear advice and steps.

I recommend to you do assimil and pimsleur, in 3 months you’re going to see a huge improvement

1 - Paul noble - Grammar based course for starting a new language. If you are 100% new, its amazing course, very easy to understand for new learners. If you are even at A2 level in language, you won't find Paul noble very useful. 2 - Pimsleur - Designed for speaking practice alone and improve pronounciation. But if you don't know basics of language, you might not be able to use this course depending on what language this is. 3 - Which is better? - Both are different things, Paul noble is a beginner grammar teaching course to get you started in language. Pimsleur is a speaking course, its to get you start speaking. Both are not the same.

Honest review. Thank you for your advice. Can you recommend me for pimsleur or Paul nobel.. I'm at zero level. I know nothing about french and I will visit France in 3 months .. which 1 you will advise me.. thank you

@@ahmedmaghraby5928 Learning a language properly in 3 months is not possible from zero, unless you know a similar language to it. But here is what you can do and this is what 3 months of hard work will take you to: 1 - Start with Paul noble audio course, 30 mins new topic, 30 mins revising what you listened to yesterday. So thats 1 hour for Paul noble. 2 - Pimsleur course each day from level 1. so that's another + 30 mins. 3 - Teach yourself French book. 1 hour each day. 4 - After you finish Teach yourself book, get a phrase book and start watching French videos designed for new learners on RUclips. All this is 2 hours 30 mins of study everyday. If you can add more time listening to podcasts etc, then its even more better. After 3 months, it will enable you just enough to barely speak and find ways to talk to French people. It will be difficult, but it will be far better than your brain not able to process French at all.

I got 1/3rd through the second level French and was able to answer full sentences and if traveling follow directions and ask for a rental car. This isn't the best review.

I have used Assimil French with ease book :) I even have made a detailed review about it. Right now I am watching videos in French and also doing exercises to start working on my writing skills.

@@AdamYLM I'll look for the video and check it out. My journey with French started back in 1988. It was the 2nd foreign language I studied. Back then I basically copied a phrase book and got a French penpal. I used a dictionary and a verbs book for that. I tested out of 3 semesters of college French. I had no problem with the 4th semester like my professor thought I would have.

If you only use this course, you won't be able to speak much French, other than limited topics that are discussed in this course :) This is a grammar learning course that is designed for very very new learners. You need to learn more vocab after this course and practice speaking. You can check my latest video for French speaking.

@@AdamYLM Thanks, I already speak French, Am Moroccan, we learned French in the Academic Curriculum, but I wanted an honest review, Like why would somebody post a video about A language learning tutorial review without actually trying to speak the targeted language (Unless he is too shy to do so) ??

@@learningisfun4315 I could have spoken French in that video too. But those would be limited sentences I memorised from few videos, books and courses at that time. And it would have given wrong impression that I actually can speak properly, while in reality, I couldnt even hold a basic conversation at that time of recording. This course will not make you able to hold conversation, it takes long time to be able to talk properly.

I am happy you liked it. For listening comprehension, I started with InnerFrench podcasts, I would just listen to it when walking, driving and doing simple activities etc. And its all free ofcourse. And after that my comprehnsion increased. I am now listening more advanced stuff. Hugo Décrypte Podcast, again its free. I love news related stuff so thats why listening to such content, you can try out topics that you like. Just make sure its appropriate to your level. And upgrade later to more native stuff as your skills improve.

@@AdamYLM Thanks for the recommendations. However, I did try Inner French but feel it is more for intermediate/ advanced learners. There is no English translation and he speaks at normal speed so it's impossible to understand him. I have started doing Frenchpod 101 . I am also consuming lots of listening content but its totally incomprehensible. I did have a tutor on Preply but I cancelled it as I just could not understand her. I guess I will have to continue with my struggles. Thanks again!

@@French007-ej1ml If Inner French is too high for you, then use Explore French Podcasts. If its too easy, then find something that is just right for your level, this requires testing but you will something appropriate. With that said, Frenchpod101 is excellent and has many levels of French appropriate different learners.

Assimil is a very old company created in 1929. So yes, you can find really old books of Assimil.

I've got that one too. Still, going through textbooks and never getting past them is akin to "tutorial hell" where someone learning software development keeps going through tutorials and courses without building something themselves.

From everything I have done over many languages, I found podcasts the best. But like everything else, there are different kind of podcasts. Here are ones for French for example: 1 - You are very new to the language, then this kind of podcasts will help. They first say things in French only, then after that, they break down entire podcast, sentence by sentence. Repeat podcasts as many times needed until you can fully understand 100%. ruclips.net/video/VQNb1MEp7T4/видео.html 2 - But you need to change your content as time passes, right now I am intermediate level so this is what I listen to. ruclips.net/video/2afwvUMFnsU/видео.html With all that said, I only listen to podcasts when I am driving or doing some work. Nothing beats reading when it comes to acquiring vocabulary.

Thank you :) One part of this is actually missing, me actually speaking French, so that is in next video, it will be online shortly.

@@AdamYLM I've been doing the assimil French books recently paired up with "coffee break French" it's a good combo to work with.

@@idkwhy77 It really is a good combo, its very helpful for learning to have side resources like podcasts. Once you finish Coffee break, focus on 100% French speaking podcasts that are for new learners.

Thank you for kind words. Reason I haven't touched that book is because its for those people who want to go from B2 level to C1. Right now I am at B1 level and if I study that book right now, it will overwhelm me. I have two advance books that I will be using, first one is Hugo advanced French, then I will be using Assimil. But before that, first I need to go to B2 level.

​@@AdamYLMThat's actually smart. It's a huge jump. I ran into that when I tried the C1 German book after completing their B2 German course, and the French as the L1 is advanced too.

I'm halfway through Using French. While it's good, I don't think it's going to take you to C1 either. Still, I recommend it as well as extensive reading in French to get to C1.

Oh wow, didn't know that. But if thats the case, then I have seen an old course of Micheal Thomas. I guess it was called Advanced course and thats where it got into my memory. It was very long time ago so cannot correctly remember. That person said really good stuff about MT courses. Though French was the first language for which I tried it.

Yes, also in terms of understanding spoken French, I realized even native speakers are having trouble understanding each other. I always thought English accents were bad, French just takes it to another level. Regarding Pimsluer, yes, I am at level 5 right now, once its over, I will be making its detailed review.

Looking forward to it. I enjoy Pimsleur with the immediate conversational level attained. There are two European languages, I have heard native speakers will immediately switch to English, if the non-native speaker's pronunciation is not up to standard to make it intelligible. That is French and Icelandic.@@AdamYLM

Its hard because its not standardized, this makes too many variations of the language. New learners will get their heads rolled when they start speaking as everyone speaks it differently. The version I speak is heavily influenced by English and Urdu. So you can see traces of those langs too in it.

Pashto, I will make a dedicated video about myself sometime in future. Where I will show all of my languages and how I learned them.

I will make more such videos. Infact I now plan to make a video guiding students learning a language from complete zero A1 level to all the way to C2 level. That video will be very long due to amount of information to cover, so I am trying on how to make it short for viewers to watch it properly, this will be a difficult task to do.

Yes. All books regardless of their print versions teach the same way. In next video after this, I talk about different versions of this book too.

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Hi, check the description of video, I have posted links to order book and also digital PDF download. Both with audio files.

In terms of spoken ability, I can speak 5 langs in 2023 but still learning more. I used different gamified apps like Duolingo entire year, the time when I was making this video. It was the first time I was using apps for language learning. I used mostly Babble, Duolingo and another one which I forgot the name. But I don't think I will ever use another gamified app again. They were helping me learn, but the amount of time I spent on using these apps, there are far better ways to spend that time learning languages. I found books, video courses and audio courses way more effective than these gamified apps. But if a person enjoys apps, then sure, he can use it. Language learning is a long journey so enjoyment is a very important part to consider.

I didn't know that.

Unfortunately, adults doing courses online, or even in language academies etc. I see them skipping mastering ABC sounds of languages like French German etc. Not all do it, but many does from the ones I saw.

Thank you for kind words

Wow. That was such an amazing breakdown girl! Thank you so much! I’m at 2.5 months also and have a basic grab on the things you listed but with listening I’m like what in the world. And speaking…umm, yea. lol anyway I’m going to take the plunge! You never know how your comment might help someone so thank you again! ❤

You won't regret it. Really eases the grammar acquisition.