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3 Minute French - Course 1 | Language lessons for beginners
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About 3 Minute French - Course 1 | Language lessons for beginners
Introduction to the course
1a - Your first few words
1b - très
1c - Let's practise - English to French
1d - Let's practise - French to English
1e - What else?
2a - délicieux
2b - extraordinaire & beau
2c - pour moi
2d - I think
2e - cue cards
2f - Let's practise - English to French
2g - Let's practise - French to English
2h - Let's recap - English to French
2i - Let's recap - French to English
2j - Recap of words so far
3a - CAREFUL consonants
3b - stress the last syllable
3c - merci & toujours
3d - parfait
3e - the letter C
3f - ça c'est
3g - Let's practise - English to French
3h - Let's practise - French to English
3i - Let's recap - English to French
3j - Let's recap - French to English
3k - Recap of words so far
4a - pour lui
4b - non & mauvais
4c - le restaurant
4d - est
4e - tout
4f - Let's practise - English to French
4g - Let's practise - French to English
4h - Let's recap - English to French
4i - Let's recap - French to English
4j - Recap of words so far
5a - le poulet
5b - la dinde
5c - What's a noun?
5d - What's an adjective?
5e - masculine vs feminine
5f - fantastique doesn't change
5g - terrible
5h - Food, glorious food
5i - Let's practise - English to French
5j - Let's practise - French to English
5k - Let's recap - English to French
5l - Let's recap - French to English
5m - Recap of words so far
6a - mon
6b - l'hôtel
6c - tout le monde
6d - ma
6e - Let's practise - English to French
6f - Let's practise - French to English
6g - Let's recap - English to French
6h - Let's recap - French to English
6i - Recap of words so far
7a - un
7b - un café
7c - je voudrais
7d - une table
7e - numbers 1 to 12
7f - Let's practise - English to French
7g - Let's practise - French to English
7h - Let's recap - English to French
7i - Let's recap - French to English
7j - Recap of words so far
8a - la nourriture
8b - et aussi
8c - le / la / les
8d - plural
8e - plural adjectives
8f - adjective changes
8g - une carotte & un poireau
8h - practise with plurals
8i - mes
8j - Let's practise - English to French
8k - Let's practise - French to English
8l - Let's recap - English to French
8m - Let's recap - French to English
8n - Recap of words so far
9a - Greetings
9b - bonjour & bonsoir
9c - bonne nuit
9d - à bientôt
9e - Let's practise - English to French
9f - Let's practise - French to English
9g - Let's recap - English to French
9h - Let's recap - French to English
9i - Recap of words so far
French Au Restaurant a La Salade
French Au Restaurant b Les Légumes
French Au Restaurant c Le Poisson et Les Fruits de Mer
French Au Restaurant d La Viande
French Au Restaurant e Les Autres Choses
French Au Restaurant f Les Condiments
French Au Restaurant g La Cuisine Francaise
French Au Restaurant h Les Desserts
French Au Restaurant i Les Fruits
French Au Restaurant j Les Boissons
French Au Restaurant k Les Couverts
French Les Nombres a 0 50
French Les Nombres b 51 100
French Les Nombres c 101 1000
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What You Will Learn?
- Learn to speak French in a way you've never experienced before.
- Bonjour et bienvenue (Hello and welcome).
- My name is Kieran, and I’ve been teaching foreign languages for over eighteen years. I love languages, I love learning and I love teaching. I also love chocolate, but this isn’t really the place to discuss my chocoholism!.
- I created 3 Minute French as a way to make learning French easier than ever before and accessible to anybody, especially people who have tried and failed in the past. My course is perfect for the complete beginner as I break down the French language into tiny chunks that I show you how to build back together again in a logical, simple to understand way. You can go from knowing no French at all to putting together your own sentences in just a few minutes..
- This is the first course in the 3 Minute French series. If you want to watch course 2, click the link below:.
- 3 MINUTE FRENCH - COURSE 2: https://skl.sh/3EzCkNR.
- HOW DOES 3 MINUTE FRENCH WORK?.
- As the name suggests, each lesson in this course lasts just three minutes (more or less!). In each lesson, you learn a tiny chunk of French that you can use to build sentences. As you work through the course, you learn more and more little chunks and your sentences will gradually get longer and longer..
- The chunks that you learn in the first lessons are carried through to the last lessons. This means you don’t have to worry about trying to remember everything; you will get so much opportunity for practice that you will find the words and phrases just sink into your brain..
- The lessons in this course are focused, practical and effective, and you will build language skills that you can use straight away in real-world situations. You will be able to speak French comfortably and with confidence whenever you’re in a French-speaking country..
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- WHAT WILL I LEARN IN THIS COURSE?.
- Here's a handy contents page you can use to see a brief outline of what you'll learn in this course. It will also come in handy whenever you want to recap any particular part of the course - you'll be able to find the lesson quickly without having to trawl through videos!.
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- WATCH COURSE 2.
- All of my 3 Minute French courses are available on SkillShare - start watching course 2 now....
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- WHY 3 MINUTES?.
- When you begin learning something new, you tend to start off with lots of excitement and motivation. You might spend a few hours on the first day learning, but then the next day, you can only manage one hour, and then that goes down to half an hour, and then you get bored and you give up. Well, the reason behind the very short lessons is that it helps you to stay motivated and it also enhances the learning process..
- By keeping your learning to short chunks, you will find three wonderful things start to happen:.
- 1. You will maintain enthusiasm.
- If you want to learn anything, you have to maintain enthusiasm or else you won’t continue. If you limit your study time to just three minutes, you’ll keep French fresh and exciting and you’ll be eager to learn. If you spend hours studying, very quickly you’ll get bored with French and it’ll turn into a chore..
- 2. You will study more consistently.
- It’s much better to study for just three minutes once a day than to study for three hours once a week. A spare three minutes is relatively easy to find even in the most hectic of schedules. If you make sure you complete at least one three-minute study session every day, it’ll quickly become a habit that you’ll do without thinking. It’s much easier to fit in a daily three-minute habit than a weekly one-hour habit. By doing this, you’ll become a much more consistent learner, and consistency is the key to success..
- 3. You will remember things better.
- This is my favourite reason as to why you should limit your study to just three-minute chunks. If you study something for just three minutes every day, you’ll trick your brain into memorising the information more quickly than if it were to see the information for hours each day. It’ll think, “I see this information every day so it must be important, but I don’t see it for very long, so I’d better hold onto it and make it into a memory fast!” You’ll be amazed at how much more easily things tend to stay in your brain if you limit yourself to just three minutes a day..
- So, that’s why I keep the lessons to just three minutes..
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- A METHOD THAT REALLY WORKS.
- I can’t quite believe it, but over 500,000 people in more than 200 countries have now used 3 Minute Languages to learn to speak a foreign language. It still amazes me when I get an email from somebody on the other side of the world telling me how much they have enjoyed learning French with me. Apart from the thrill it gives me to find out people are listening to my voice in places like Mongolia, Peru and even Fiji, it also confirms to me that the 3 Minute Languages courses work well..
- So, if you want a course that teaches you to speak French you can use in everyday situations using a simple and fun method, then start watching 3 Minute French today..
- Merci :-).
- Kieran.
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- PROGRESS TO THE NEXT COURSE.
- Once you have completed this course, if you would like to learn more French using the same method, you can find the next courses on SkillShare too. Here are the links:.
- 3 Minute Languages series.
- 3 Minute French - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7 | Course 8 | Course 9 | Course 10 | Course 11 | Course 12 | Course 13 | Course 14 | Course 15 | Course 16.
- 3 Minute Spanish - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7.
- 3 Minute Italian - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7.
- 3 Minute German - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6.
- 3 Minute Portuguese - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4.
- Building Structures series.
- Building Structures in French - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5 | Structure 6 | Structure 7 | Structure 8 | Structure 9.
- Building Structures in Spanish - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5.
- Building Structures in Italian - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5.
- Building Structures in German - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4.
- Building Structures in Portuguese - Structure 1.
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- Quick Guides series.
- French - Verbs 1.
- Spanish - Verbs 1.
- German - Verbs 1.
- Italian - Verbs 1.
- Portuguese - Verbs 1.
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- Grammar courses.
- French Present Perfect tense.
- Essential French grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect.
- Essential Spanish grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect.
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- English courses.
- English Idioms.
- English Verb Tenses.
- English If clauses.
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- Maths courses.
- 3 Minute Maths - Fractions.
- 3 Minute Maths - Percentages.
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- Further learning material.
- You can find plenty of articles and YouTube videos I've created to help you with your language learning. Find them all here:.
- YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_W8zw-DxvfU0lF_ojIm2mA.
- Blog: https://www.3minute.club/blog.
- I hope you enjoy :-).
- Happy learning!.
- Kieran.