Because the French who follow this channel think I speak too slowly and they always have to speed up my videos to not get bored Well in this video, I will teach you to speak faster like the French There you go!

More seriously, don't worry I won't speak like that during the rest of the video No, my goal, it's to help you to speak French a little bit faster It may seem paradoxical because I speak quite slowly but I speak slowly so that you understand me And you who learns French maybe when you have a conversation with someone you feel like it takes too long to find your words to formulate your sentences to talk a little like a robot So you would like to know how to progress to be able to speak French a little bit faster And this is exactly what we will look at in this video So, I already made a video on this topic Specifically, "How to speak French like the French" in a more natural way But today we are going to see a slightly different technique which is very effective This year, I decided to realize one of my childhood dreams learn to play the piano And I always heard that when we want to learn to play a musical instrument you have to do your scales A scale is a series of notes going up or down For example, the best known the scale of C major do re mi fa sol la ti do Here, like this you have learned musical notes in French So obviously, scales, it is a little boring, a little repetitive When we learn to play a musical instrument in general, it is to be able to play songs not scales Your neighbors, your friends, don't want to hear you doing scales all day But do your scales, it's essential because it allows to learn to play the notes correctly So good, on the piano, it's not too complicated because it is enough to press a key It's less difficult than with a trumpet or a violin, for example But still, there are different ways to play the note It also allows you to work his technique because we learn to chain the notes so we gain in fluidity Yes, sorry for all musicians who are watching this video I know there I only say trivialities But I discovered all this this year and I find that there are a lot of very interesting parallels with language learning Because yes, with languages, also, you can do your scales Besides, 'do your scales' is a french expression which doesn't just apply only to music but in all areas In general, "do your scales", means "to train" repeat something to improve a skill Yes, but unfortunately the repetition, it's not sufficient You are not going to learn to speak French more fluently simply by repeating word lists for hours The problem with doing this is that quickly you will reach a plateau and you will not know how to progress Since repetition is not enough we need to train in a slightly different way using deliberate practice Deliberate practice is a concept that has been studied and highlighted by a Swedish psychologist who was very interested in questions about performance, about expertise in areas like medicine sport or music Ericsson says that to become excellent in a field It's not enough to train for years and years without thinking You must have a deliberate that means "intentional" practice Basically Sorry for the word "feedback", it's an anglicism But we don't really have a word which translates this idea well into French So I'm going to use "feedback" in the rest of the video Besides, it's more and more used in France so here Sorry to the purists of the French Academy The best way to illustrate deliberate practice is to think of great athletes For example, a tennis player who trains to do a very particular type of serve for hours and hours with his trainer who analyzes the movement who corrects it and helps him to improve But it's also a technique that we can use with languages So to do deliberate practice we need three elements a specific goal to improve systematic training and a person who will us give feedback on our performance First, define the specific point we want to work on to speak French faster, is a goal which is a little vague It won't really help you We need to clarify this In general, the problem is not really a problem of speed but it's a problem fluidity So with your deliberate practice you will try to improve this fluidity Because if you only increase the speed mechanically like me at the start of the video it is not going to be at all natural So you don't have to work on that it's not about speed it's about fluidity To improve fluidity you have to work on the link between words the way the words are linked This is often something which is problematic at the start when you try to understand the French because you can't distinguish the different words You feel like a sentence is a long word that doesn't stop So if you want to give that impression fluidity you too must improve the link between words For that, there is a very good technique which is particularly recommended by the Italian polyglot is to learn not isolated words, single words but groups of words For example, I know that the verb "to miss" often poses a problem To say "I miss you" in french is "i miss you" and it's not "I miss you" I know it's not very intuitive especially for English speakers So learn this combination of words by heart Don't learn the conjugation of the verb "to miss" both categories of pronouns but learn directly «you miss me» «I miss you» In this way, when you want to say this sentence you won't have to ask yourself which pronoun should be used, in what order, etc.

But you will have the sentence ready And when you learn these combinations learn to say them like the French For example, if you are learning "I do not know" well, practice saying it "I dunno" like the French do A second specific goall that you can work on is the use of pronouns French people love pronouns because it allows them to win time And it is not very natural at the beginning for learners to use them But if you learn to do it it will really allow you to gain in fluidity for example if someone asks you Do you have brothers?

Instead of answering as we do at the beginner level well, use the pronoun "en" And say Yes, I have two brothers Because that's how the French say it And it allows you to be more fluid It's the same with the pronoun "y" which is also a very useful pronoun If someone asks you Have you already gone to France?

Instead of saying I already went to France in 2015 Say Yes, I already went there in 2015 This too, will give you fluidity If you want more example sentences with the pronouns "en" and "y" I made a free guide that you can download on my site with 198 expressions to better understand oral French And there are also the audio files so you can practice speaking like the French A third goal which can be interesting is to train to be more reactive in a discussion For that, you can, for example, practice asking questions It's not something we practice a lot in language courses unfortunately In general, it is instead the teacher who asks the questions and the students who answer But it's very useful in a conversation to be able to pose questions because it shows that you are interested in your conversation partnr you want to know what he thinks, etc.

So it creates a good dynamic in conversation The problem is, when you don't have training It takes a lot of time to formulate the question in his head And when you're ready to ask it, usually it's too late because the conversation has already advanced So to avoid this you can prepare a list of questions that you find useful For example, questions for a person that you are meeting for the first time What type of questions you can want to ask him?

If you have prepared these questions well then, in the discussion, it will be easier for you to ask them at the right time In addition to preparing your questions, you can also prepare your answers For example, when we look a TED conference it feels like it's very easy for the person doing the presentation She speaks very fluently It seems like it's really something natural But in fact in general, it's a presentation that the person prepared for hours and hours and that she also repeated several times Because in conversations, there are topics that come up regularly it's worth preparing them a little bit in advance to be able to talk about it easily These subjects can be, for example, to introduce yourself when you meet someone for the first time introduce yourself quickly say where you come from what you do for a living It can also be anecdotes that you like to tell things that happened to you during your studies trips you've taken Really try to think of all these stories that you like to tell and translate them into French to be able to tell them in a fairly fluid way So, there, there you have a list with some goals and you're going to choose one to do deliberate practice for a few weeks, for example Once you have this goal we will have to go to training This training shouldn't be simply repetition but it should be something of really systematic with a lot of concentration That's the key to deliberate practice The first thing to do,vof course is to verify that the sentences that you wrote are correct For that, there are several methods The first is to use a translation tool Yes, there is Google Translate, but I prefer DeepL I find that the translations are more relevant If you don't know this tool, I highly recommend it It's a very, very good online translator Then what you can also do is to search on google with quotation marks If there is a sentence that you are not sure of you write it in Google with quotes and you will see if there are any results If there are very few results, it means that it's not really a French sentence and that we will have to formulate it in another way Then, there are also apps and forums as HiNative where you can publish your sentence and ask natives to correct you The problem with these applications and these forums is that you don't know the level of the other person because even the French sometimes get it wrong So the best solution, is to work with a teacher or at least with a conversation partner This is really going to be essential in deliberate practice The teacher or the conversation partner will be able to help you to correct your sentences to improve them to tell you if you pronounce them well if it sounds good french This is what will really help you progress The best, in my opinion, is to have several teachers Me, that's what i did, for Polish At one point I had two or three teachers Polish at the same time and every week I told the same story thrice a first time with my first teacher she gave me some corrections I used these corrections for improve my story and I told it a second time to my second teacher And after the third time, in general I was able to tell this story well The advantage is that it is a little less repetitive because if you tell the same story every week to your teacher to improve It will possibly annoy him a little But if you have different teachers, it will allow you to do this repetition in a quite natural way Now the third and last element you know, is feedback You need to ask your teacher or to your chat partner to give you criticism, comments to tell you what you can improve Because if you don't do that you will go into a kind of comfort zone and you're not really going to progress It will just become a routine And there, intentional practice will lose all meaning If you apply these three elements well the choice of a specific goal systematic training and regular feedback you will see that you will make progress quickly So, it's true that deliberate practice, it requires a lot of discipline, rigor Therefore, it's not a technique which is suitable for everyone Fortunately, if you don't feel able to use this technique there are other ways to progress in French For example, the natural approach which is to listen a lot, a lot of things in French to spend as much time as possible with the language It takes a little more time but if you do it regularly and if you are patient you can also progress in this way And me, in general, it's this method that I love and recommend There you go! I hope you liked this video, that, maybe, it gave you ideas things that you can start to continue to progress in French If you liked the video, do not hesitate to put a "like" and subscribe to the channel Thank you all and see you soon for a new video.