BELLE LECON DE FRANCAIS

Petite histoire à partager … Un vieil instituteur donne à “ses petits enfants” une leçon de vocabulaire sur les cris des animaux : Old school teacher giving his children a lessons on french verb used to describe the sound of animals. The french language is  rich enough to have one verb per animal sound. Read it out loud…

Mais où est donc Ornicar?

All french students will know this “off by heart”!! We called a memo-technique phrase. What is it? It relates to the “conjonction de coordination” – that little word linking 2 sentences into one.

“Féminin ” or “masculin”, that is the question!

If you didn’t know it already, all french nouns are either ” feminine” or “masculine”. For anglosaxons this can be tricky. It matters as feminine nouns will be preceded by “la” or “une” and masculine nouns by “le” or “un”. To help out here is a tip: usually feminine nouns will end with the sound…