Ditch the chatrooms and start speaking REAL French

Did you know that over a third of people with smartphones send over 100 messages a day? 

Sometimes that is me… are you one of them too? 

You might even be trying to learn French through chat rooms, apps and online groups. Chat rooms can help get you started but in the long term they are likely to be killing your ability to speak French! 

It’s so easy to hide behind technology and make sure our spelling and sentences are correct before we press ‘send’ but this can leave us feeling uncomfortable when having simple, sustained and REAL ‘face to face’ conversations.  

And that’s just in our first language! 

Conversational competence is something that is nurtured. It has to be live, out loud, and frequent. It is no different when learning to speak French!

I know that just like people who are using chatroom messaging all the time, you too want to master the art of French conversation.

Real, live conversation.

The kind where you are actually looking at the person you are talking to, and creating a deeper connection, rather than sending emojis and hoping they mean the same thing in French as they do in English.

The truth is,  in a REAL conversation you hesitate, you make mistakes, you ask for help with a new word, and you try it again. You learn to pronounce, to apply, to bring words alive and most importantly, you learn to think and speak spontaneously in real time. It is messy but it is real. 

An added bonus of speaking out loud in a dynamic situation is that when you apply new words in real conversations, your mind can then associate it with a sound and a situational experience. This can help you to memorise and learn those words far faster than just typing them into a chat box.

So I challenge you to ditch the chat rooms, stop hiding behind technology and a faceless screen and get used to talking REAL French to REAL people in REAL time. 

Will you "ditch chatrooms" for learning French? What have you done?

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