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3. Don't focus on rules of grammar if you are a beginner.
Firstly we must focus on learn the meaning, the pronunciation, just after having a good level we go to grammar. It's almost what we did when we are child: fisrt we learned to talk, write, then we learned the grammar.

I've been self-teaching myself the French language using duolinguo and this process is quite evident, trying to understand the grammar before you get the pronunciation and semantics figured out is a waste of time. Once you learn a few verbs and adverbs you start to understand how phrases are constructed, but without some grasp on nouns and adjectives, there's no point knowing grammar rules.