TEFL GUINEA PIGS

Three months ago I started learning French on my own. I bought two books by PONS (see previous post), I watch Youtube videos (I recommend the channel "Learn French with Alexa") and I found a French tandem partner, who I talk to via Zoom. I guess what I mean by self-studying is that I am not planning to take any courses in French. I am simply going to use the above mentioned resources. Yesterday I got an idea about what could be a good way to start studying a foreign language. At the very beginning, why not activate everything that we might already know from a target language and analyze it a bit (with the help of a teacher or an advanced speaker). Being born in Croatia, and therefore coming from a European culture, I already had knowledge of a few phrases and expressions in French. Maybe even more than I was aware. In Croatia I studied art so some expressions I already knew come from this field. Here are some examples of phrases that I already knew: Bonjour, Bon soir, en-face...

About two months ago I started to learn French on my own. Already a year ago out of curiosity I listened to the Michel Thomas' audio course for French and found this method interesting but not as efficient as what I am doing right now. Michel Tomas' method requires you to just relax and listen. I found the approach interesting, but more from the point of participating in a kind of a linguistic experiment that isn't very practical. I found the method very slow as well. It's sort of an imitation of how a child would learn its mother tongue, just by absorbing. But two months ago I bought two books for French learning by PONS. The first one is an intensive course with a CD and transcripts ( A1-A2) and the second one is called "Grammar practice through translation method". Its concept is that on one page you have sentences in German that you need to translate into French, and on the opposite page you can find the French translations. The book is organized into diff...