How to Learn a Language From Scratch | The First Week of Learning a New Language

In today's video, I'm going over how to learn a new language from scratch. I take you through what I would do in the first week of learning a new language, and I decided to try French! This isn't one of those "learn a new language in a week" videos, instead, I'm giving you a schedule to try in your first week to create a solid foundation for your language learning routine. These language learning methods include listening, pronunciation practice, vocabulary practice, and basic conjugations. Don't feel pressured to understand a lot in your first week, language learning is a life-long process! There's no rush at all and don't let comparison kill your motivation.

To repeat my disclaimer, I am NOT going to continue learning French. I simply started learning it for this video to show you how I would approach learning a new language. I still want to focus only on Italian.

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[SheaJordan]

Hello everyone! I missed you! Thanks for watching :) How many of you here speak French or are learning French?! Drop a 💛 below!

[TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

I am a French teacher so if anyone has trouble or a question I can help you, just answer to this comment 🙂

[heeeymanu]

I'm trying to learn French, German and Japanese because of the quarantine. I just found your channel few days ago and I like your advises.

[isgen]

Bonjour Shea,
Here is your French music list suggestion:
- Mathieu Chedid - M -
- Jacques Brel
- Alain Souchon
- Grand Corps Malade
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Francis Cabrel (accent is a bit different)
- Renaud
- Vanessa Paradis

[SarahNorris]

I learned French at school until I was 14 but I’m trying to revive it a bit! 💛 I’m also doing German and Italian for my degree (LOVE your videos on Italian, by the way, they’re super helpful!) and I kind of also want to learn Swedish 😅 does anyone else just wanna learn every language there is or is that just me?! 😂

[TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

I should have added this to my other comment but the first thing when you start learning French is to understand how to read in French. As Shea said, pronunciation is hard so understand what we pronounce and don't pronounce right away. Then work on pronunciation, everyday practice is key. Bonne chance 🍀

[selahstudies]

French is such a beautiful language, and I love what you said about learning pronunciation--that is so important! Speaking and listening is the part of language learning that I think a lot of people forget or want to skip over :/

[AfroLinguo]

You know, I am a native French speaker, and I have noticed that I rarely notice if anyone butchers the language or any other language I speak, because my brain is focusing on what the person infront of me is saying and not how he/she is saying it. Great Video by the way.

[moneyinvestingwithvandi]

I learned French in school and in college, but yeah studying it outside the classroom/self study is a good icing on the cake, I like your self study videos it inspiring

[marlenegiot]

I am french and it's always funny to see american people trying to learn our language because it's verry complicated to you with the prononciation. Sorry for my english 😅

[zzoya]

this is genuinely the most helpful 'where and how to start' french language video I have come across... Mostly its ppl who already took french back in school and thats not helpful as anew to the language beginner.Thank you so much.

[christinefrazier]

i've studied both french and italian and i spent a lot more time focusing on my pronunciation and listening to french. french is more monotone and the consonant sounds are softer. once you get over that a lot of endings aren't pronounced and the quirks of its spellings, its ok. you just have to spend a lot of time brushing up pronunciation any stage of french study. having spanish and italian background will help your french study for sure! also it helps me a lot to listen to things slow and fast speeds and to stop recordings to listen. listening to french does take a lot of work over time especially when french is spoken so fast & casually and i've studied for a few years but it is really satisfying when you start hearing it! girl its all good your pronunciation is pretty good for just starting! the spoken language people smash things together and drop syllables and its a little confusing but u get used to it! keep up the good work! i hope to return to studying italian one day in the future but right now i feel passionate about french as you do for italian! ♥️ i think your advice was very good and a good way to start!

[kandyviris]

I don't even care about French but you made me feel so calm

[teresita.lozada]

I just got a notebook for verb conjugations in French thanks to you. Right now I'm focused on listening, reading and translating short stories not much word by word. Yesterday I got my first oral conversation via Skype with a canadian friend from Quebec. There's still work to do. Thank you for motivating us once again!.

[archanagavhale]

Hi Shea! Welcome back! I was thinking about learning French or German after learning Italian. So this would be really helpful. My motivation was you who made me inspired every time I watched you.Thanks a bunch!

[petrazivkovic]

Omg I just clicked on your video and the first thing I noticed was how calmly you speak, your voice is so soothing. I guess we're used to constantly being "yelled at" when youtubers talk loud, I'm gonna go back to watching now I'm excited

[johntyy]

I have been learning Spanish for a bit, and I decide to focus on Spanish for all of 2021. I dabbled in Italian last year. I felt that the pronunciation was a bit difficult due to letter combinations change the sound, but the rhythm of the language is more natural to me than Spanish. I have actually had people tell me I speak Spanish like an Italian. Haha. Italian is on my list for next year.

[DaniArt]

I know what you say about passion, if you want to learn something the most important thing is the passion.
Perché ci vuole passione… 🎶

[FerrariCaliforniaT]

I’ve been bouncing from many videos but I feel like this helped me out a lot. I don’t feel lost anymore, thank you 🙏

[masayaiwai]

Hello, I’m from Japan, 52 years old. I’m learning French and Korean, and English.