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Mar 2019
32m 29s

How to learn French

Oliver Gee
About this episode

Hello everyone, 

It's a bonus episode from Camille, the voice behind French Today, answering the age old question: How should I learn French?

More specifically, I asked her about the order to do it in, how to be efficient in learning the language, and what the other teachers are doing incorrectly. 

I share some tales of woe in my own French learning, and pose a few day-to-day questions that I've been storing up, and Camille also teaches me what I've been doing wrong when I try to say "bow-tie" in French, or "noeud papillon". 

Also, Camille has written in great detail about the best method for learning French, so if you want some great extra reading content then simply follow this link

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