3 Minute French - Course 1 | Language lessons for beginners (Udemy.com)

Learn to speak French you can use in everyday real-world situations - all in just 3-minute chunks!

( 288 Reviews )

Created by: Kieran Ball

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Speak French confidently and comfortably in everyday situations
Understand what's being said back to you
Be more than just an average tourist when travelling to French speaking countries
Go from complete beginner to building your own sentences after the very first lesson
Build a solid base vocabulary of words and phrases you can use straight away in the real world
Understand and use grammatical and linguistic features of the French language with ease
Understand the structure of the French language
Give your opinions in French
Give descriptions of things in French
Greet the locals when you are in a French speaking country
Order food and drinks in French
Get to grips with French pronunciation

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Overall Score : 94 / 100

Course Description

Bonjour et bienvenue :-)(Hello and welcome)There is nothing more thrilling than being able to speak to the locals in their own language when you visit a foreign country. Well, now you can experience that amazing feeling too!
My name is Kieran Ball and Ive been teaching foreign languages in my hometown for over fifteen years. I love languages, I love learning and I love teaching. I also love chocolate, but this isnt really the place to discuss my chocoholism!
I created 3 Minute French as a way to make learning French easier than ever before and accessible to anybody, especially people who have tried and failed in the past. My course is perfect for the complete beginner as I break down the French language into tiny chunks that I show you how to build back together again in a logical, simple to understand way. You can go from knowing no French at all to putting together your own sentences in just a few minutes. Watch the free preview lessons below and youll see what I mean.
TRY THE FREE PREVIEW LESSONSI really want everybody to see that they can learn to speak French, so Ive turned the first fifteen videos of this course into free previews, meaning you can watch them without even signing up. If nothing else, I just want you to see how easy it is to learn French.
HOW DOES 3 MINUTE FRENCH WORK?
As the name suggests, each lesson in this course lasts just three minutes (more or less!). In each lesson, you learn a tiny chunk of French that you can use to build sentences. As you work through the course, you learn more and more little chunks and your sentences will gradually get longer and longer.
The chunks that you learn in the first lessons are carried through to the last lessons. This means you dont have to worry about trying to remember everything; you will get so much opportunity for practice that you will find the words and phrases just sink into your brain.
The lessons in this course are focused, practical and effective, and you will build language skills that you can use straight away in real-world situations. You will be able to speak French comfortably and with confidence whenever youre in a French speaking country.
WHY 3 MINUTES?
When you begin learning something new, you tend to start off with lots of excitement and motivation. You might spend a few hours on the first day learning, but then the next day, you can only manage one hour, and then that goes down to half an hour, and then you get bored and you give up. Well, the reason behind the very short lessons is that it helps you to stay motivated and it also enhances the learning process.
By keeping your learning to short chunks, you will find three wonderful things start to happen:
1. You will maintain enthusiasmIf you want to learn anything, you have to maintain enthusiasm or else you wont continue. If you limit your study time to just three minutes, youll keep French fresh and exciting and youll be eager to learn. If you spend hours studying, very quickly youll get bored with French and itll turn into a chore.
2. You will study more consistentlyIts much better to study for just three minutes once a day than to study for three hours once a week. A spare three minutes is relatively easy to find even in the most hectic of schedules. If you make sure you complete at least one three-minute study session every day, itll quickly become a habit that youll do without thinking. Its much easier to fit in a daily three-minute habit than a weekly one-hour habit. By doing this, youll become a much more consistent learner, and consistency is the key to success.
3. You will remember things betterThis is my favourite reason as to why you should limit your study to just three-minute chunks. If you study something for just three minutes every day, youll trick your brain into memorising the information more quickly than if it were to see the information for hours each day. Itll think, I see this information every day so it must be important, but I dont see it for very long, so Id better hold onto it and make it into a memory fast! Youll be amazed at how much more easily things tend to stay in your brain if you limit yourself to just three minutes a day.
So, thats why I keep the lessons to just three minutes.
A METHOD THAT REALLY WORKSI cant quite believe it, but over 130,000 people in more than 200 countries have now used 3 Minute Languages to learn to speak a foreign language. It still amazes me when I get an email from somebody on the other side of the world telling me how much they have enjoyed learning French with me. Apart from the thrill it gives me to find out people are listening to my voice in places like Mongolia, Peru and even Fiji, it also confirms to me that the 3 Minute Languages courses work well.
So, if you want a course that teaches you to speak French you can use in everyday situations using a simple and fun method, then sign up to 3 Minute French today.
Merci :-)KieranWho this course is for:
You really want to learn to speak French in a very simple and very quick wayYou are going to spend a holiday/vacation in France or another French speaking countryYou have failed to learn French in the past, but really want to give it one more goYou have no experience with French, but you would like to learn fastYou have always wanted to learn a new language, but you are very busy and can never find the time

Time: 4.5h

Instructor Details

Kieran Ball

4.7 Rating
288 Reviews

Hello, bonjour, hola, hallo, ciao and ol!
Im Kieran and Im a language tutor based in the UK, and I also create online courses and write books to make language learning accessible to all.
My books and online courses are based on the methodology I developed for teaching languages, which I've beenusing in all my classes for many years. The methodology will get you speaking quickly, without the struggle normally associated with language learning.
Ill not bore you with my life story or intricate details of the history of the methodology; I know you probably just want to start learning now, so Ill let you get on with it.
I have created three series of language courses available in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. They're called: '3 Minute Languages', 'Building Structures' and 'Quick Guides'.

3 Minute Languages
The 3 Minute Languages courses are perfect for the complete beginner. They will get you speaking a language from scratch, assuming you know absolutely nothing. You will be amazed at how quickly youre able to put sentences together. And you will memorise new words and phrases easily without even trying.

Building Structures
The Building Structures courses are a revolutionary way to look at foreign language acquisition; you will learn how any language can be broken down into around fifteen structures. Each course focuses on a different structure, and you will learn how to form it,

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By Francesca Ancona on 11/15/2020

Yes, it was a good match, but not having a live instructor present, I can't get any feedback on my pronounciation.

By Mitesh Sura on 11/8/2020

This course is helping me in my everyday life. I have some French friends and now I can talk to them a little bit better.

By Annie Stephenson on 11/8/2020

I loved practising the same with my nieces and they found it easy to follow as well. The teaching method is what I loved the most. Cest trs bon

By Vinoth C on 11/8/2020

C'est trs bon, merci

By S.Irudayaraj on 11/8/2020

More french words similar to english words may be incorporated.

By Kajal Sonawane on 11/1/2020

It's a good course with a great explanation. Look forward to the next course

By Shevali Vishnu Khera on 10/27/2020

Very less content..It should be ellaborate starting with alphabets pronunciation & grammar

By Palakpreet Bhullar on 10/25/2020

This is the most brilliant course...so so good.
If you really want to learn French nothing could be better than this.
So well taught and also has so many recapitulation sessions and practice tests.
I completed this and I am satisfied. Kieran Ball (maker) has total 8 courses..but this in itself is also complete.
Amazing.....
Thankyou so much sir

By VIDYA KHAN on 10/16/2020

Excellent and very comprehensive. I enjoyed it immensely. It is unfortunate that it only went to level 99 so I could not get my certificate.

By Shah Baten on 10/15/2020

Excellent course and a really effective way of learning. I recommend this course.

By Divya Chaudhary on 10/14/2020

Finished first section. c'est fantastique
Will update my review as I progress.
Hopefully I will be able to translate my review in French by the time I reach the end of this course.

By Samina Rahman on 10/13/2020

this course is amazing. It worth every penny. you wont have to waste so much money on taking French classes and save your journey time. just a little advice, it would have been better if you could just add the French alphabet pronunciation at the beginning, because some of the word is very hard to pronounce like R. however this is the best French course ever for me as I almost gave hope to learn French. I wish I could find an Arabic lesson in same way as i also want to learn Arabic. Thank you very much sir for making this course for us.