I do think these days it's easier to find ways to practice a language. Do you have any TV or radio you can watch/listen to? When I first started teaching myself Italian I listened to short wave radio (this was the mid-90's), read newspapers as well as the textbook learning. But you can read, watch things on YouTube, order foreign language books and films. We have things like Charlotte's Web in Italian.
I've struggled with French myself after a rough time of it in middle school, opting to take Russian in HS, then Spanish in college even though my mother taught French for a while before I was born.
My husband's been very slowly teaching himself, though he recently got the Rosetta Stone for French. Because his native tongue is Italian, and he's already taken/learned Spanish, French is I think easier for him. My son's just decided he wants to take it next year (IMO because he's obsessed with the Tour de France but hey, whatever works).
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Date: 2015-05-04 04:53 pm (UTC)I do think these days it's easier to find ways to practice a language. Do you have any TV or radio you can watch/listen to? When I first started teaching myself Italian I listened to short wave radio (this was the mid-90's), read newspapers as well as the textbook learning. But you can read, watch things on YouTube, order foreign language books and films. We have things like Charlotte's Web in Italian.
I've struggled with French myself after a rough time of it in middle school, opting to take Russian in HS, then Spanish in college even though my mother taught French for a while before I was born.
My husband's been very slowly teaching himself, though he recently got the Rosetta Stone for French. Because his native tongue is Italian, and he's already taken/learned Spanish, French is I think easier for him. My son's just decided he wants to take it next year (IMO because he's obsessed with the Tour de France but hey, whatever works).
That's a bit tl;dr all about me. LOL Sorry!