GET YOUR LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION BACK!

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No one decides to start learning a foreign language one day, follows a magic formula for language learning, stays super motivated throughout the whole process, and then miraculously speaks just like a native a year later. Language acquisition doesn’t work that way for 99.9% of us. Let's talk about why we lose motivation for learning French and what we can do to fix it.
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[@OuiInFrance]

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[@pei8136]

That’s where I am at with French. Thank you for this topic!

[@OuiInFrance]

You're very welcome!

[@suzannesinclair3306]

Thank you for the reassurance that I am not just an unmotivated, lazy person! I go in spurts with learning French. The hardest thing for me is comprehension. It is like a 10 second delay for my brain to compute everything. 😵‍💫

[@KristenLS]

So much yesss

[@lizkeith1356]

just got back from Normandy, Reims, Epernay and Paris and had a fabulous trip. i used many of your tips and the French really appreciated my attempts to speak to them in French. i did get to taste the violet ice cream, too. thanks for the videos.

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you had such a nice trip and that you found some violet ice cream!! Such an interesting flavor, right?

[@staciamartin923]

I’m sorry for all your losses . I understand all to well that kind of grief .I went through loss of my mom sister killed in an accident 2 Aunts cousin and two uncles in short time and a brain injury and Im a therapist myself. I could have not have kept my sanity with out my psychologist weekly visits and at times had extra visit . I’m glad you were supported . I enjoyed your video all awesome ideas .

[@carolinelvsewe]

Learning French well has long been a personal goal. I had given up. This is very encouraging. Thank you.

[@OuiInFrance]

You can do it! Just take it one day at a time.

[@pattymcreynolds2720]

This was a timely topic for me. I´m enrolled in French 101 at the Community College and enjoying it, but struggling, also. There´s just so much to learn it can be a bit overwhelming. But I want to go back to France or to Montreal someday so I´ll keep calm and carry on. Hopefully.

[@pei8136]

I feel the same! Just got back from France, was overwhelmed by the French language. But do want to pick it up again

[@romualdb5815]

Hello. As usual , a brilliant video. I am French and I love to learn foreign languages. This is because I have 2 main motivations. Number one : it is always appreciated when you travel in a country to know, at least, the basic of the language. It shows your dedication and respect and, in return, it opens many doors in terms of relationships. Number 2 : I like littérature and poetry. For English, I wanted to read Edgar Allan Poe novels in English even if one of our best poet Baudelaire translated him. I want to feel the musicality of each language and how artists compose with this. Voilà : if ever it gives some ideas:) Bisous.

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you enjoyed this one, thank you!

[@SoNowWhat]

Boy can I relate to this! I have tried 3 or 4 different software programs, and I didn't find any of them to be very good, for one reason or another. My biggest frustration is due to the fact that I'm an extremely logical person, so when I start encountering all those exceptions to the "rule" I just learned, it drives me crazy.

[@lursf9316]

great video as usual. @8:40 "focus on the things you like" is so true. i found motivation came back for me when i started making my own audio sets off of watching news and youtube, that i could listen to in the background while doing chores, driving, etc. something where i could listen and repeat on loop. the auto-looping really made things stick

[@phillambert8472]

Spot on and "all of the above" refer to where I am with learning French. Lived here for 7 years now, and can "get by" thanks mainly to Google Translate in situations where I need to understand and be understood. Time for me to get the fun back into it! Thanks Dianne - bisou x

[@OuiInFrance]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching and bonne continuation!

[@winstonlu350]

Good Day. Bonjour. I am Canadian. I live in Canada. English and French are the official languages of Canada. I love listening to Celine Dion singing in Quebecois French.

[@michaelmedlinger6399]

Excellent, as always. Back in the day when learning German and now learning French - there are days you say, “Wow! I’m really getting good at this!” Then there are the days when you say, “Crap! I’ll never get this!” And these days can follow one another in quick succession. As has been said so often: Learning a language is a marathon, not a sprint. Last weekend (a long one because of 1 May), I had a lot of time and watched 4 films in French. Two I understood quite well, two were a struggle. Films with actors who have theater experience are generally much easier to understand than those with some up-and-coming young whippersnappers who mumble and use a lot of “youthful” language. Of course, you want to learn to understand both, but the latter can be very discouraging. Just an anecdote for amusement: When I was at university in the States, a student once remarked that he had read somewhere that the first 20 years of learning English were easy while the second 20 years were difficult. In contrast, the first 20 years of learning German were difficult while the second 20 years were easy (no claims made here concerning the veracity of this statement). Another student quipped: “Now I know what my difficulty is! I’m in my second 20 years of English and my first 20 years of German!” Prends soin de toi !

[@insertsupacoolname]

Thank you so so much for this. I’m not learning French, but I started learning German as my first ever foreign language about a month ago. Lately, I’ve been hit by a sudden and ferocious lack of motivation for a variety of reasons. It’s been very hard to continue and I’ve thought multiple times about dropping the language entirely and never returning. Of course, I know I have to return eventually because I want to move to Germany in the future, but that future seems so far away that that girl moving to Germany feels like a different person, one I don’t have to care about. I’m still going through this but I will try your tips and I hope they work ❤

[@thaihm]

I’ve never even thought about competing for a teaching job in France but your videos are changing my mind. Merci!

[@OuiInFrance]

Happy to hear that!

[@KiKiQuiQuiKiKi]

A fun, no-pressure but motivating activity is to attend or start a Meetup (or similar) group. One can’t help but learn at least a bit each time. 📛

[@dougmartin7129]

I agree with you, but……. My problem was vocabulary. I wanted to learn Japanese. No problem in about a month learning all the basics. I could read about 90% of what I saw but absolutely no retention of what the words meant. Paper flash cards, online flash cards, one word a day and on and on. Translation just didn’t stick. Very frustrating. I guess waiting until I was 60 was a mistake. All plans fell apart when the Tokyo Olympics died.

[@cbll1962]

This video was so spot on! I tend to get caught up with what is in front of me to go on a daily basis. I keep thinking I'll have more free time "tomorrow"....but it doesn't seem to happen. I do need to get back up to speed as I have a house in a small town in France and no one speaks English other than the ex pat Brits. I like your suggestions on finding a few minutes here or there during the day. I think that might work best for getting back into practice. Thanks so much for the video 💗

[@davidskalak2908]

This is super, Diane. The most comprehensive and realistic collection of reasons for losing language-learning motivation that I've seen. Turns out to be timely for me as well. 🙄

[@beastateverything2.07]

This is the video I needed to see

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lizkeith1356]

just got back from Normandy, Reims, Epernay and Paris. i did get to taste the Violet Ice Cream. yum. i used all the tips you've given and the trip was fabulous. thank you so much.

[@H.O.P.E222]

U read my mind

[@slumdoggy]

Bonjour if you are willing… Please make a video on how blind and visually impaired people are treated in France. I could really use this from my novel. I am a blind person. thank you so much in advance!

[@slumdoggy]

My apologies. I meant to say.Bonjour Diane

[@ntakovacj3644]

Read a book. For me, first person fiction was easy. The Enile Ajar stories about Madame Rosa. The narrator is a young Paris street kid. I think one thing that makes it easy is when there's a lot of dialogue. It just flows.

[@lursf9316]

diane, do you have any experience or advice for train travel in france? i'm taking a smaller suitcase this time because i'm taking the frecciarossa train from paris to lyon. hoping to keep it near me and if not, wondering if i need to buy some kind of locking cable to secure it so someone doesn't walk off with it.

[@OuiInFrance]

Hi there, I have a whole blog post you might find helpful ;-) www.ouiinfrance.com/train-travel-in-france-where-to-buy-tickets/

[@moiragillott8060]

i am old school as i have a cd player in my car. please recommend a resource for listening to cds in te car level A1/2

[@CoffeeLover-mz7bk]

Can you tell us where your French journey started? Did you take French in school? Were you around French as a kid?

[@OuiInFrance]

I took French in high school for a year but learned and retained pretty much only the basics. Then I took a few Alliance Francaise French classes (in a group) once a week back in NY/NJ before I moved. But didn't study it in college or anything and had 0 exposure as a kid.

[@GoldenScarabProd]

i've just discovered your videos and i'm just literally loving it ! i'm french and what you're saying about France is so accurate. perhaps you will read this and may answer two questions i've got about american language: - is that true that american use the preterit instead of past participle ? - i've often heard american omitting the "-s" at the end of the 3rd singular pronoun. why ? thanks 🇫🇷

[@OuiInFrance]

Welcome, thanks for being here. ;-) I can try to answer your q's. Are you able to please give me some concrete examples so I'm sure I'm understanding what you're asking? We would always say 'she goes' (not she go), for example, so not sure I'm understanding ;-) Merci

[@GoldenScarabProd]

sometimes i've heard things like he/she/it + verb without the -s in the present tense just like : "she don't care" instead of "she doesn't care". there are even songs with this grammatical mistake (?). and i've often heard that american don't use the present perfect tense in oral, like for instance they would always say "i lost my keys" whereas in some case, when you want to emphasize the fact that the lost of your keys has consequences in the present, you'd rather say: "i've lost my keys"... merci beaucoup de ton attention 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@OuiInFrance]

@@GoldenScarabProd OK, so some quick thoughts. Let me preface my reply by saying I haven't formally studied linguistics and am basing my reply on my experience. Sometimes in songs, artists throw "proper" grammar rules out the window so you'll hear things like you described -- "she don't care." It's not proper sentence construction but people do speak that way sometimes too, depending on one's education and other factors. It would absolutely sound wrong to many people and you won't hear a newscaster, politician, etc. speaking this way in any professional context. Next, in American English, we're less likely to use "have got" and will just say "have." For example, "I have something to do today" instead of "I've got something..." You hear "have got" more often in British English. They're both 100% correct and proper. Saying "I have something" doesn't sound uneducated or anything like that. Hope that helps!

[@GoldenScarabProd]

okay i get it now ! thank you for you kindness and your quickness ! 🙃

[@yefroger3181]

Hi Diane, je suis français et je vis en France depuis my return after having gtown up in the US, I like your channel. cela fait très longtemps que je suis revenu, mais j'ai passé 15 ans aux Etats-Unis. Je serais content d'échanger et de proposer d'intervenir pour approfondir et conterbalance certaines de vos perceptions. Si ca peut vous intéresser faites le moi savoir. J'ai une toute petite chaine pour dess raisons de promotion de mon activité que vous pouvez consulter YF & Associes comme élément de confirmation de mon existence. Merci

[@michelesauret7779]

A quand une vidéo en français ? J'aimerais entendre votre charmant accent.

[@michaelmedlinger6399]

D‘accord !

[@ronaldrump1556]

So much word salad, and no concrete information. What you are saying is common sense, and it seems like you are just butthurt for some reason. People want to know rough numbers and a timeline. Watch others answer the question. They actually give some information that a student of the language can use.