This comprehensive beginner programme teaches you French through a fun and natural method that makes learning a pleasure, and grammar a breeze! It's not an app, but you can still use it on ANY device – computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet. With StoryLearning, you can learn languages quickly - through stories, not rules. Hopefully this advice will help you choose the best French apps for you!įrench Uncovered is my comprehensive beginner programme that teaches you to speak French through the StoryLearning® method. If you understand about 80%, that’s just about perfect. To maximise your learning efficiency, you need material that is hard enough to push you to improve while not being so hard that you don’t understand any of what you are reading or listening to. This means you should avoid word list-style apps, and instead, you should favour those that present language in the form of audio recordings, texts for reading, dialogues or other authentic situations so that the content is always encountered in a natural context.Īnother vital consideration is finding apps that give you language input at just the right level. But if they're based on nothing more than memorising lists of isolated words with no context, they have little value since this is not how our brains learn language. They might have pretty visuals, and they might be gamified and fun to use. However, many language apps – the majority, in fact – are no more than glorified word lists. And it also helps fix it in our long-term memory.
When we see a new word, expression, structure or grammatical form in context, this helps us understand its use. When we learn any language, we progress by seeing the language in as broad a range of contexts as possible. What To Look For In French Apps & What To Avoid Good for: Practising typing, speaking, reading and listening with native speakers via text, voice message and voice/video call You can then return the favour by correcting other people’s posts in English (or any other languages you know). People will then ‘like’ your moments as well as giving you feedback and corrections for whatever you wrote. For example, as well as allowing you to find native speakers to practise with, you can also post ‘moments’ accompanied by whatever you want to write in French. HelloTalk is similar to Tandem but also includes a few additional features.