3 December 2014
Bonjour les Francophiles sans loi !
Today marks the half anniversary of Lawless French, born when I decided to give up my 15-year freelance position as About’s French language Guide, and pour my efforts into my own site instead. Six months later, Lawless French consists of more than 900 pages, including 250 verb conjugation tables and as many Subjunctivisor answers. Those seem like huge numbers, and yet it will take many, many years for Lawless French to come anywhere near the breadth and depth of content I wrote for my former site. I’m grateful to all of you for hanging in there with me.
I still have a lot of ground to cover, so I try to add at least one new piece of content a day.* Though I have a fairly detailed plan of attack, I’d still love to hear which lessons you’re eager to see here. No promises, but your requests will help me prioritize.
At the moment, most of the lessons are intensive rewrites of my old lessons, many of which end up being substantially better than the originals. The reading and listening exercises are exclusive to Lawless French, and I really hope you find them helpful and enjoyable.
Once again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for following me here to Lawless French, and for your comments and donations which keep me inspired and allow me to continue in my dream job as a virtual French teacher.
Bonne continuation !
Amicalement,
Laura K. Lawless
*This is my fairly-consistent-but-not-set-in-stone schedule:
| lundi | vocabulaire | |
| mardi | prononciation | infolettre |
| mercredi | grammaire | |
| jeudi | lecture | |
| vendredi | expression | infolettre |
| samedi | verbes | |
| dimanche | compréhension orale |
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The Subjunctivisor is an interactive tool that will advise you on whether to use the subjunctive or indicative with more than 275 French verbs, expressions, and conjunctions.
Knowing whether to use the passé composé or imparfait is particularly difficult when translating certain verbs into French. Very broadly speaking, the imperfect is equivalent to was/were + ___ing, but some English verbs are not often used in this form. So when translating was, had, and liked into French, you have to think about the meaning in order to decide which tense to use.
The letter combination il has various pronunciations depending on what precedes it.
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