Perhaps the hardest of the French cooking course you will find on enrolling in French cooking school is having to learn the French cooking terms. However, there is no short cut to learning these French cooking terms if you want to earn your French cooking degree. This is the foremost requirement of attending a prestigious French cooking school - learning the language!
But what do you do if you do not speak French? Well the smartest thing to do is to learn the language. You will find here some tips on how to go about learning those hard-to-pronounce French cooking terms.
1. To begin with, you should start by understanding what the French cooking term actually stands for or means. There will be times when you will be able to relate the French term to an English cooking term or word. It is best to adopt a technique to find French words you do not know and then try to find the root of the word, its origin. Many times it will help when the word is related to an English word.
2. Put in some extra time practicing the way you pronounce the word and understanding its various uses. One good way to do this is to get yourself a computer and some software that teaches French. Many people have mastered the language through this technique. A little practice pronouncing the words and remembering its meaning will have you working with the French cooking terms like a pro.
3. Make sure you use the French term as often as you can. Remember the phrase 'practice makes perfect'? The more you hear the term the more likely you are to remember it.
Nothing can be more difficult learning a foreign language. Learning French is on of the most difficult tasks too. But when you have chosen a career where you are required to have at lease some knowledge of the language then it is only right that you learn the language when you will be dealing with people and ingredients that use French names.
The more frustrating thing about learning French terms is that most of the terms sound the same however they is a great difference in their meaning. You must get a list of French terms and names of ingredients and practice speaking them in your free time to master the use of the term. It is a good idea to give up using English terminology in class or in the kitchen. Try to use only the French terms you are supposed to master. This is sure way of you learning the terms in the shortest of time. It helps to keep the company of people with similar interests, as this will add to your practice.
By Abhishek Agarwal
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