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Common Mistakes New French Learners Make (And What to Do Instead)
Starting to learn French is exciting. You learn your first greetings, understand a few sentences, and suddenly recognize words in a French song or video. For a moment, you might think, Maybe this language isn't as difficult as I thought. Then reality arrives. There...
Relative Pronouns in French Explained Simply: Qui, Que, Dont, Où and More
At some point in your French learning journey, you will come across sentences like: La personne qui parle est mon professeur.Le livre que je lis est intéressant. And you may wonder: Why "qui" in one sentence and "que" in the other? Then things become even more...
DISCOURS DIRECT VS DISCOURS INDIRECT EXPLAINED SIMPLY (WITH EXAMPLES)
Master one of the most useful grammar concepts for speaking and writing naturally in French. Imagine your friend tells you: "Je suis fatigué." I am tired. Later, someone asks you, "What did your friend say?" You don't repeat the exact sentence. Instead, you...
FRENCH GÉRONDIF EXPLAINED SIMPLY (WITH EXAMPLES): THE ONLY GUIDE YOU’LL EVER NEED
Learn one of the most natural French grammar concepts without getting confused. Have you ever come across sentences like these? Je mange en regardant la télévision. Elle est tombée en courant. Nous apprenons le français en parlant tous les jours. You probably noticed...
FRENCH CONDITIONNEL EXPLAINED SIMPLY (WITH EXAMPLES): THE ONLY GUIDE YOU’LL EVER NEED
Learn one of the most useful French tenses without feeling overwhelmed. If you've been learning French for some time, you've probably come across sentences like these: Je voudrais un café. Si j'avais plus de temps, je voyagerais davantage. Pourriez-vous m'aider ? At...
French Present Tense Made Easy (Part 3): Master Regular RE Verbs
We have covered ER verbs and IR verbs in this series. Now we complete the picture with RE verbs, the third major group of regular French verbs. Once you are comfortable with all three patterns, you will be able to conjugate the overwhelming majority of verbs you...
French Present Tense Made Easy (Part 2): Master Regular IR Verbs
In part one, we covered ER verbs and how predictable their pattern is. Now it is time to look at IR verbs, the second major group in French. The Golden Rule : Remove -ir and then add the endings Subject Ending Je is Tu is Il/Elle/On it Nous issons Vous issez...
French Present Tense Made Easy (Part 1): Master Regular ER Verbs
Most French learners think verbs are the hardest part of the language. The truth? Once you understand one pattern, you've already learned thousands of verbs. Today, we'll start with the most common group in French: -ER verbs. They make up nearly 90% of regular French...
Nominalisation in French: The secret trick that makes your French sound more advanced
Have you ever read a French article, email, or DELF text and thought: "Why does this sound so much more sophisticated than the French I write?" The answer is often not difficult vocabulary. It's something called la nominalisation. Don't worry. The name might sound...
“Ne Explétif” in French
What is the ne explétif? The ne explétif is an extra ne that appears in certain French sentences, but it does NOT express negation. In other words, it does not mean "not". Its purpose is mainly stylistic. It is used to make French sound more formal, elegant, literary...
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