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A1 – Beginning French
A1 French Lessons and Practice – Beginning French
A1 is beginning French, consisting of everyday language like greetings and personal details – learn more.
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Lawless French for Beginners
A1 - Beginning French • travel French
Spelling Change Verbs -cer -ger
French verbs that end in -cer or -ger require a small spelling change in certain conjugations. For the most part, these verbs are conjugated just like regular -er verbs, other than a little problem in some conjugations that must be corrected for reasons of pronunciation. It's easy enough to do, once you understand why and how. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons • spelling
Steak-frites
Stem-Changing Verbs -e_er -é_er -yer
Stem-changing verbs, also known as "shoe verbs" or "boot verbs," take the same conjugation endings as regular -er verbs, but have two different verb stems depending on the grammatical person the verb is conjugated for. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons • spelling
Subject Pronouns
Subject pronouns indicate who or what is performing the action of a verb. French has a total of six grammatical persons, each of which has at least one subject pronoun. A1 - Beginning French • informalities • pronouns
Telling Time
Knowing how to tell time is essential for traveling, meeting up with friends, making appointments, and getting to work or school on time. Once you learn these formulas, you'll never have an excuse to be late again! A1 - Beginning French • travel French
Toiletries and Cosmetics
Train
A1 - Beginning French • travel French
Transportation
A1 - Beginning French • travel French
Tu vs Vous
One of the tricky aspects of French is that there are two different words for you, tu and vous, and very complicated rules about when to use which one. Choosing the right subject pronoun is important not just from a grammatical point of view, but also for reasons of etiquette. You can read more about that in my lesson, or watch this video for some general guidelines to help you decide which pronoun to use with different people. A1 - Beginning French • pronouns
Tu vs Vous – Subject Pronouns
The distinction between tu and vous is one of the most confounding aspects of French, and one of the most basic. The influence it has on verb conjugations, adjectives, and pronouns is considerable, but more than that, the choice of tu or vous is a matter of etiquette. A1 - Beginning French • formalities • informalities • politeness • pronouns
Venir – to come
Venir is one of the most common and useful French verbs and has irregular conjugations in most tenses and moods. Venir literally means "to come" and is used to create the recent past. Venir de – Recent Past
You can explain what happened in the recent past with the construction venir de + infinitive; for example, Je viens de terminer ce puzzle - "I (have) just finished this puzzle." A1 - Beginning French • tenses moods voices
Vive l’automne !
Vive l’hiver !
Unlike other French suffixes, -ci does not create new words, but rather adds additional meaning to the nouns and pronouns it's attached to.
