Blog -Teaching Assistants’ Programme in France

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you have already reached the intermediate level in French, you've probably come across dont and duquel and wondered: "Both seem to mean 'whose', 'of which' or 'about which'. So when do I use each one?" The good news is that the difference is actually very logical....

One of the biggest struggles for French learners is understanding dont. Many students memorize the rule: Dont = of whom / of which / whose …but then they get confused when they see: parler de → dont avoir besoin de → dont être fier de → dont se souvenir de → dont The...

If you've reached Part 3, congratulations! And if you've not yet read part 1 & 2 of this series, don't miss out! Part 1: Click here Part 2: Click here By now, you've probably realised something important: French prepositions are not completely random. Some...

Welcome back! In Part 1, we explored verbs followed by à and de, which are by far the two biggest categories in French. If you haven't read Part 1 yet, I recommend starting there first because many of the most common exam verbs belong to those groups: Click here...