kanika0139

[gritty wind]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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[nova estuary]

Okii

[teal anvil]

so long as you can catch a few words, your brain is doing the work. Ideally, you'd want to be able to get the gist of what's going on, but you don't need to understand all of it. Understanding fully is good for confidence + challenge, but aiming too high is likely to wear you out faster than needed.
Try integrating some podcasts, music, news, or whatever else in french in the background. As I said earlier, you want to at least be able to catch some of the words, but you'll mostly be listening to this in the background and not fully paying attention. Add this onto your 10-30min sessions of trying to understand as much as possible, and every now and again try without the subtitles. You should notice over time that it slowly gets a bit easier.
Subtitles/no subtitles is a common debate, ultimately both have their purposes, so try both and do whichever one interests you more. If you're feeling up for a challenge? no subtitles. Needing a bit of a confidence boost, or just tired and not really feeling it? subtitles. Or however else makes it interesting for you

[bitter tulip]

Also if you're just beginning, you can try finding videos aimed at beginners that are all in French. I've seen videos in other languages where the person speaks slowly and clearly and uses a lot of gestures and pictures so you can understand what is being said even if they speak only in the target language. An example of it are the Dreaming Spanish videos for super beginners. You can try finding something like this for French.

[gray egret]

You can try Lucas Comprehensible Input on Youtube! Look for his A0 playlist