All About Learning French

[rambutan77]

I find that for any language, frequent usage is utmost important.


If you learn and not use it frequently enough, you’re going to just give it back.

Besides looking for French tuition (Alliance Francaise, French Toast, private tutor, etc.) for your child, make sure he/she has enough opportunity to use the language, either speaking it, or at least listen to someone speaking it, on a very regular and frequent basis.

Once a week tuition is just not enough, no matter how good the teacher is.

You need to complement with playgroup (can be very very hard to find) if the child is very young, or for older learners, another exposure to the language preferably in a format different from the regular tuition’s.

Get books, videos, cartoons, songs, anything in the language your child is learning, for him/her to refresh and more importantly, reinforce what he/she has learned.

I find that Kinokuniya (fingers crossed they don’t turn out like Borders) is the best source of foreign language children books, although the selections may not be very good. Amazon is another one but you can’t really see the quality of the materials until they reach your doorsteps so you may have some misses there.

You can also visit the aforementioned language schools and buy the materials there although there might be some restrictions.

If your private tutor happens to teach the language in a local international school, learning materials can also be sourced from there.

The thing about learning a foreign language is to cultivate the interest and providing the best guidance and environment for your child to learn it.

Most importantly, act in your child’s interests, not yours. If you child is no longer interested in it, please do not force it. It will only make the child dislike it more.

[momof1GIRL]

Is there other french class to attend for my 6 yrs old child. she is exempted for mandarin class in her new school this coming jan 2012. any other suggestion with affordable rate . thanks a lot!

[rambutan77]

momof1GIRL:

Is there other french class to attend for my 6 yrs old child. she is exempted for mandarin class in her new school this coming jan 2012. any other suggestion with affordable rate . thanks a lot!

http://www.alliancefrancaise.org.sg/ at 1 Sarkies Rd does provide lessons for children who opted to take French in lieu of their mother tongue languages that are not taught at main stream schools.

There's a relatively new French language school called the http://www.frenchtoast.sg/ at 213 Thomson Rd too but I'm not familiar with their classes.

How is your child exempted for Chinese class may I ask?

[momof1GIRL]

Is anyone here have try frenchfaster.com?, just found their website on google. Any feedback about them , im looking for a french class for my daughter, and frenchfaster is the only one who offer a online class via skype , it was really convenient to my child . Thanks

[Gin]

Hi, may I know the age of yr daughter? Have you considered Alliance Francaise at 1 Sarkies Road?

[momof1GIRL]

She is 6 yrs old primary 1. Im looking for a french class fo her. thanks for the reply

[Gin]

Hi momof1GIRL,


I too have a girl of 6 years old and in P1. Planning to register her at Alliance Francaise in Feb for her French class starting in March. Maybe you can check it out.

[momof1GIRL]

Thanks mommy Gin for the information. Hopefully they have class every saturday. I will call them as soon as possible.

[11gaffy12345]

Looking for classes for my 3&4yr old too

It’s almost impossible to get weekend classes
Know of any small group tuition instead?

[lchunleo]

hi all


Just to satisfy my own curiosity when posing this question as why parent wish to send their child to french language instead of other language like English, Mandarin which the child will use these language more in school and their environment? Do these parent have learnt French before or in expat school? So how do you all keep French language alive at home, do you speak to your child in French?

i oso noticed that a lot of parent go for French instead of other languages e.g. German, Korean, Japanese why is it so?

Thanks