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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
When taking french, I was given a book called "How to be a more Successful Language Learner" which gave some great advice. I checked it on Amazon and it is ridiculously expensive, but if you can find it at the library I'd recommend it.
When I was learning french, I took a journal with me to class. Half the journal was for nouns, half for verbs. Nouns were written with their genders, verbs were written with all conjugations.... and I mean ALL conjugations... past, present, future, near future, near perfect, etc..
My teachers always recommended watching french TV or listening to french radio and I thought that was the most foolish thing... if you don't understand the words, they are not going to magically come to you. The only thing it EVER did for me was teach me a few of the "neighbor" words - words that are the same in English and French. Though watching a film with the french subtitles on was good for picking up a few words.
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I have to disagree with you here. I'm still learning English as my 4th language and I gotta say listening to radio/TV helped a lot. And I don't mean you have sit down and watch and try to understand some french movie. No. Just keep the TV on as a sound background as you do other things around the house, cook, clean, whatever. The words don't magically come to you but you will pick up pronunciation and the way people talk. I used to listen to CNBC talking heads babbling away and I think it's a good way to pick up pronunciation for "bigger" words. Of course you need to be at least intermediate for this to be really useful to you.
Also watching movies/tv shows with french subtitles helps. Don't use english subtitles. Start easy, cartoons, shows for kids and whatnot.