This One Exercise Made Me Fluent In French (In 30 Days!)

[Music] [Music] um language lords today i'm going to show you the one exercise to replace nearly everything else i was doing to learn french and is 99 responsible for me finally being able to speak french fluently it's a variation of the exercise i used in the video how i got fluent in french in 30 days where i did an experiment with a similar exercise which brought me great results and helped me to understand how to get fluent in a language but even if you're a beginner you can start doing this today as long as you

know how to form sentences in your target language and they don't even have to be perfect all you need is your computer and two free apps called dpl and anki link in the description if you have a mac you can download default for your desktop if not just use the app on their site the first thing you're going to do is get on your computer open up whatever program can record a video and press record now you're going to tell a story in your target language and record yourself speaking for five minutes it has to

be a story about you has to be a story that you feel comfortable telling to other people and it has to be a story that you know very well matter of fact if you need to take five minutes before you start recording and tell the story in your native language in order to get the details straight by all means a good example of a story is how you met your best friend or how you ended up with the current job that you have try to tell the story that you enjoy so maybe not the job

thing if you finish the story before the five minutes are up start over and tell it until the five minutes are finished and if you don't finish the story in five minutes keep going until you've told the entire story if you don't know how to say a certain word in your story in your target language say it in your native language and if you don't know how to structure a certain sentence give it your best guess in your target language then say it in your native language now during these five minutes you might experience some

discomfort the first time you do this it should be difficult if you're a beginner it should be fairly easy if you're advanced just push through and it'll pay off i'm serious bro push through the pain that you feel during this type of exercise is the reason why most people don't do speaking exercises and people not doing speaking exercises is the reason why most people don't make speaking progress and people not making speaking progress is the reason why most people quit okay after five minutes is up stop recording and watch the video look out for two

things while you're watching yourself speak and write them down these are words that you did not know how to say and sentences that you did not know how to structure take the list of words you didn't know translate them in deep ill and create an anki deck give the story that you told a title and name this anki deck the same thing this deck is only for words that you use and telling this story don't put any other words in this anki deck every story that you tell will have his own anki deck take the

list of sentences you didn't know how to structure translate them in debale and put them in a google sheet now open your video player again press record and repeat what you did earlier tell the same story for another five minutes you should see that it's quite a bit easier to do this now that you looked up the words and sentence structures that you didn't know the first time but telling the story will still likely be difficult at this point if so that's fine just keep going after the second session is done watch the video you'll

notice that you probably didn't tell the story with the exact same words and sentences as you did the first time which is a good thing so write down any new words that you didn't know how to say and write down any new sentences that you didn't know how to structure add the new words to the anki deck that you created earlier add the new sentences to the google sheet finally open your video player and repeat this process a third time put any new words in the anki deck and any new sentences in the google sheet

you'll notice by the third time doing this that you've already become a lot more proficient in telling this story [Music] now do the same exercise with the same story for a week straight and the second week you do this start a new story in the next week a third story and so on as you get better at doing this exercise you won't need an entire week for each story after telling the story becomes automatic move on to the next story work up to the point where it only takes two days to finish the exercise and

move to the next story what's going to happen is you're going to develop a vocabulary of your life a vocabulary of words related to your interests your friends your family your job the more diverse your stories are the better but it's all going to be in the context of stories that are relevant to your life as you continue you're going to start being able to use these words in different contexts outside of these stories and in regular conversations when you talk to other people and that's the beginning of fluency using words that you know in

new context without having to think about it many of us think that reaching fluency means you have to learn a hundred thousand words and that's not true fluency is actually just how well you use the words that you know in different contexts and that comes from practice using the words that you use most often in your everyday life which is what you get from this exercise okay the last thing is to use anki to really internalize the words that you learn go over the anki deck that you created for this story at least twice a

day i recommend once right before you start this storytelling exercise and once either before you go to bed or right after you wake up do the same thing with the sentences that you put in the google sheet just read over them don't really stress it and this will make telling the story much easier the next time by helping you to recall the words that you need faster and you're going to notice that after just a few days of telling the story you're going to be able to tell it almost automatically you're going to experience what

it feels like to speak fluently without really having to think about what you say finally take it a step farther and get a language partner write out your entire story beforehand send it to your language partner during your session and let them correct it and tell you why they would change certain things this will help you improve your grammar and find more natural ways of saying things i found my language partners on hellotalk which you can download on the app store if you know other language exchange platforms put them in the comments to help people

who want to find a language partner check out the video how i got fluent in french in 30 days to see the results i got with a variation of this same exercise where you use source content like articles and videos instead of stories that version is a little bit more difficult if you're looking for something that's a bit more advanced i'll be making a full method video for the method that i use during this 30 day period soon please like and subscribe if this was helpful and i'll catch you next time on language lords no