The concept of telecommuting has become widely accepted these days, as a result of more and more people getting access to faster computers and even faster Internet connections. With the sheer amount of people leaving behind the toil and hardships associated with the daily commute, it is no wonder that a large number of what used to be offline-exclusive job opportunities are now making their way on the web.
Naturally, it has paved the way for even non-English speakers to use the World Wide Web as their means of employing or employment. In line with this development, I tried to find ways on how to learn another language by using tools that are already available to me, and of course, the Internet. My favorite language is French, so it is natural that my first subject would be “How to learn French”.
“Salut, Bonjour, Bonsoir!” I found out that the World Wide Web is littered with tons upon tons of repositories filled with random French words and phrases. Unfortunately, very few of them actually have any use other than fill your head with French words and phrases. When it comes to learning how to speak French, they could only be of slight help, but not major facilitators.
There are also lots of computer aided tutorials available online, and while this may allow people how to learn French online, I found out that a lot of these computer tutorials, particularly the free ones, don’t work, and were made by programmers whose priorities are to make a program instead of make a language tutorial. There are even programs that are nothing more than glorified and automated versions of the French phrase and verb repositories I mentioned earlier, with the gist of their purpose perfectly encapsulated by the phrase “click a button and see what this French word means”. These programs will not work especially since it totally misses all the complexities of the French language. Not to mention none of the ones I have tried has even dealt with accent and pronunciation.
Luckily I found Rocket French through random searches for “French tutorial programs that really work”, and please don’t ask me why I thought of that phrase to put in google. It’s weird but it has done its job and found me a French learning program that does what its supposed to do.
As icing on the cake, Rocket French not only succeeds in teaching you French efficiently, it does so in record time, giving you an estimate of as short as 2 months or 8 weeks before you start getting comfortable with the language. It’s not free (I told you, very few FREE things on the net are worth your time), but there’s no risk involved since they offer a downloadable 6-day trial course for FREE, which should be enough to show you how good it is. I actually bought the entire program even before I finished the trial course.
As with everything, it will also help if you have a native speaker that you can practice your French on. Since no computer program can ever replace the joy of striking an interesting conversation with another individual. Drop me a line and maybe we can help each other.
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