But the question is how to get basic understanding of French for beginners?
The best way to do this is to pick up a French language training program and work with that. So you can work through it at your own speed. If you prefer to learn slowly, you can go through each module until you master it. If you are an over achiever, you can work through each module at your own speed.
The key is to focus on the phrases that you are most likely to use when you are writing or speaking French.
One good addition to your French toolkit is a good English to French and French to English phrasebook. Once you have a good idea of the pronunciation of French words then you will find a phrasebook very useful, though most will guide you with phonetic pronunciations too.
These are useful because you can look up words as you need them. For example, if you were going out to a restaurant for a breakfast then you could work out what you would have to say if you were to do the same thing in French.
This role play type approach makes learning French much easier because you start to work out how to use the French language in real situations.
