Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a curious difference between dire and lire. The following is according to my understanding. When one is not Francophone, but is studying French from another language, one might use patterns to help organize certain …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor continues with the subjunctive. The following is according to my understanding. I mention in yesterday’s post about the subjunctive in French. Being a verb form that expresses the speaker’s feeling about a situation, it’s used …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor brings up the subjunctive. The following is according to my understanding. I’m not Francophone, but grew up in Canada; hence, I’ve connection with French. Moreover, my wife and sons are all bilingual. Over the years …
Self-tutoring with French: the tutor mentions something perhaps curious to an Anglophone. What follows is a simplification, but perhaps useful for a non-Francophone: In English, “better” can be either an adjective or an adverb: Charlotte sings better (adv) than Mary. …
Tutoring French, verb forms are important. The tutor mentions the conditional form in French. In French, the conditional form designates an event that would happen if something else happens or is in play. If it was sunny, I would walk. …
Self-tutoring about business vocabulary: the tutor makes an observation. English-speaking business people seem to think in terms of quarters. In French, it’s apparently the same, but they’re called trimestres. In this case, a trimestre is a three-month period. Source: cambridge.org
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the idea of direct object. A direct object receives an action, but doesn’t participate. In the sentence He washes the apple., the direct object is the apple. Making it a pronoun, you’d say He …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions notre and nôtre. Sometimes, the presence of an accent changes a word’s meaning in French. For instance, notre is a possessive adjective meaning our. However, nôtre is a possessive pronoun meaning ours. Nôtre is …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a practical difference between jusqu’à and jusqu’à ce que. In French, jusqu’à and jusqu’à ce que both mean “until.” The difference is that jusqu’à means “until [a noun]” while jusqu’à ce que means “until …
Self-tutoring about French expressions: the tutor mentions je m’attends. Je m’attends means I expect. The infinitive form is s’attendre. However, it’s not necessarily used as often in French as I expect is in English. Source: french.kwiziq.com