Can someone hook me up with those language charts/guides floating

Can you read french works with duolingo alone?

try French for Reading by Sandberg

>>9900288
No, not enough vocabulary. It's a start. Follow up with an actual grammar book, anki and reading as much ss you can and you can be reading with medium dictionary use in a year. Faster if you get actual speaking practice and such

>>9900288

Romance languages are retard tier easy to learn to read for english speakers, actually writing and speaking it is much much harder.

>>9900288
Not really. Maybe from a lot more repetition of the levels, but I feel like a trained parrot at this stage of my learning; I can't construct my own sentences or remember all the different conjugations for future, present, past, passe compose, etc - especially for irregular verbs. I can read and get the general gist of a paragraph of text in French, but that is because I am prompted by seeing the words. Parsing speech and writing my own stuff is still very hard to do.

I think I will made a lot of progress once I start reading technical French language books. Duolingo is very good (and I still recommend it), but the lack of in-depth technical stuff makes its method kind of like building a house of bad foundations.

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/frb1-programme
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/livres_et_filmsrecommandes.pdf
http://www.lepointdufle.net/index.html
http://www.etudes-litteraires.com/
http://www.frenchbyrepetition.co.uk/

and

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-301-french-i-fall-2004/related-resources/

And these links are my favourite for grammar:
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/index.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/french-grammar-4133074