just pronouce like you're about to vomit
It's not the pronounciation I have trouble with. When it comes to speaking, I'm not too bad. I have a relatively european accent in times like this. It's when I have to do writing exams or god forbid, listening ones. They're the absolute bitch of a test to do. With writing, it's usually just because I have stuff all knowledge of tenses. It's all about the bloody tenses. Apparantly you can't get above a C Grade without using more than one tense in your writing and speaking. Since I can't tell or remember the differences between the four tenses, I'm completely out of luck there.
Seriously, why does their language require such silly rules about it all?
4 different tenses as well as different suffix'es onto word ends simply due to who you're talking to and even your gender/gender of noun.
What's even worse is that there is a whole group of reasonably common verbs that act even more different in tenses, which doesn't help me get around it any better.
If anything, the main problem with learning a new language for me, is simply the way they teach it.
When you're born to a country with it's own language, you tend to learn the language in a certain order.
Generally it's how to speak first. You learn this from hearing other people speak.
Next you tend to learn to read and write. Which obviously you do with schooling.
Then finally you learn the different parts of the language. (By which I mean, if you're an English speaker, at this point you'd be learning things like, Poetry, Story writing, Review writing, Drama speaking, etc...) This is all learnt in what is essentially a further education. (Since the previous section is entirely learnt in pre-schools and such)
However, once they're teaching you a different language, they just throw all of it at you. (Ok, probably not the advanced rules towards the language). That means instead of starting on speaking, you're instantly pressed into learning to speak, read and write all at the same time.
tl;dr, I'm relatively good at speaking French, however I'm rubbish at everything else because they try to teach the whole language in one go instead of splitting it up.
