The French R is usually the sound that can cause most difficulties for French learners. According to my students it is the typical sound that we might expect in French. It is also the pronunciation of the R sound in French that scares people when it comes to learn how to make it. They completly […]
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My background as a French teacher made me realize a lot of things. Everyone learning a language despite of their nationality has his or her difficulties. As majority of my students are native English speakers, they face the same problems. We all know that more than 30% of English language has a French origin. Even
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French conjugation and tenses might be tricky. But once you know how to conjugate a tense the good thing is you can use it not only to express the tense itself but for a lot of ideas. That is so useful to know and I will tell you here the different values of Present tense
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My background as a French teacher made me realize a lot of things. Everyone learning a language despite of their nationality has his or her difficulties. As majority of my students are native English speakers, they face the same problems. We all know that more than 30% of English language has a French origin. Even
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My background as a French teacher made me realize a lot of things. Everyone learning a language despite of their nationality has his or her difficulties. As majority of my students are native English speakers, they face the same problems. We all know that more than 30% of English language has a French origin. Even
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My background as a French teacher made me realize a lot of things. Everyone learning a language despite of their nationality has his or her difficulties. As majority of my students are native English speakers, they face the same problems. We all know that more than 30% of English language has a French origin. Even
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Learn french by imitation I always thought that imitation is the key to a good French accent. Trying to be in others shoes, imitate their attitude in a fun way. Fake it until you make it. Listen other people bad French accent is also a good technique since you can compare and realize how (good or
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French pronunciation is sometimes (who said always?) tricky. You just learned a new word but it sounds completely different when it is feminine, plural, or even depending on other words surrounding. I often get the question with PLUS. There is three different ways to pronounce it: [ply], [plys] or [plyz] ! Let see how we
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