Realistic French Learning Expectations

Realistic learning expectationsIf French is your first foreign language, it will take approximately 600 hours of study and practice to reach intermediate level. This is why many students suffer "language shock" when they visit France for the first time and discover that, despite months or even years of casual French study, they can barely order in a restaurant, much less carry on a conversation.

   

Pour

Pour - French prepositionThe preposition pour usually means "for" and may be followed by a noun, pronoun, or infinitive.

   

Lawless French à fond

Lawless French à fondOne day, I was idly thinking about French questions that get asked over and over, and inspiration struck: why not create a one-stop resource for lessons, practice exercises, and related content for those knotty topics? And thus Lawless French à fond was born.

Il pleut des cordes

Pleuvoir des cordes
Whether or not it's raining cats and dogs, now is the perfect time for you to learn the French expression il pleut des cordes.

   

Euphony

French euphonyIt's no accident that spoken French is beautiful - there are actually grammatical changes required to avoid hiatus in order to maintain euphony, so that words flow together like music.