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How to make a French structured sentence ?
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Subscribers asked me How to structure a sentence in French ?

* How to structure a sentence in French ?
* To express yourself more clearly, to make yourself understood by the people you speak with

The simplest sentence is structured in this way :
SUBJECT + VERB + COMPLEMENT

* The subject indicates who is being talked about in the sentence.
* The verb gives information on the subject (its state or the action it does).
* The complement gives details of the circumstances of the sentence.

 

French structured sentence : the subject and the verb
To identify the subject and the verb in a sentence, you have to go through two steps.
Step 1 : Finding the verb (the word that designates an action or a state).
Examples :
-Les fleurs sont blanches. → The flowers are white.
sont (the verb ETRE in the 3rd person of the plural) designates the state of the flowers.



ETRE
Je suis
Tu es
Il/elle est
Nous sommes
Vous êtes
Ils/elles sont



-Je vais à la plage. → I am going to the beach.
vais (the verb ALLER in the 1rst singular person) designates the action of Je.



ALLER
Je vais
Tu vas
Il/elle va
Nous allons
Vous allez
Ils/elles vont



 
2nd step : Once I found the verb I can find the subject, I use the verb to find the subject.
I ask Qui est-ce qui…? / Qu’est-ce qui…? → Who/What is/are …? that I place in front of the verb :
-Les fleurs sont blanches. → The flowers are white.
Qu'est-ce qui sont blanches ? → What are white ?
The answer to this question is the subject.
Ce sont les fleurs de mon jardin qui sont blanches. → These are the flowers in my garden that are white.
les fleurs du jardin is the subject.
- Je vais à la plage. → I am going to the beach.
Qui va à la plage ? → Who is going to the beach ?
C’est Je (moi) qui va à la plage. → This is I (me) who is going to the beach.
Je is the subject.
A sentence can consist only of a subject and a verb.
Example :

Marie mange. → Marie is eating.
But to enrich the meaning of the sentence we can add a complement.
 
A French structured sentence : the complement
The complement brings a precision to the sentence, it completes the sentence.
It brings new information to clarify the meaning of the sentence.
Example :

Marie mange. → Marie is eating.
A six heures, Marie mange au restaurant près de chez elle. → At six o’clock, Marie eats at the restaurant near her home.
The 1st sentence gives little information.
The 2nd sentence indicates the same information but with more details.
There are several types of complements :

* The place complement


Je marche sur la plage. → I’m walking on the beach.
Je marche OÙ ? – sur la plage. → WHERE am I walking ? – on the beach.
sur la plage is the place complement


* The time complement


Il pleut, aujourd’hui. → It’s raining today.

The prepositions DU and DE
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We use DE and DU, to know when we can use them, we ask the question : what is the noun that follows ?

The preposition DE is used in the following cases :
Proper noun
Examples :
L’ordinateur de Maxime. → Maxime’s computer.
La voiture de Gilbert. → Gilbert’s car.
We do not put an article in front of the names of anyone → L’ordinateur de le Maxime.

A Feminine-singular noun that starts with a consonant
If the name is feminine-singular and begins with a consonant, DE becomes DE LA.
Examples :
La maison de la femme. → La maison de femme. → The house of the woman.
Le toit de la maison. → Le toit de maison. →The roof of the house.

When the designated thing is a generality and it begins with a consonant
Examples :
Le professeur de géographie. → Le professeur de la géographie. → The geography teacher.
biologie and géographie are global things, seen as a whole.
Une leçon de vie. → Une leçon de la vie. → A life lesson.
Life in general, seen as a whole.
The preposition DU is used in the following cases :



Note :
DU can also be a partitive article.
Example:
Je veux du lait. → I want some milk.
We do not talk about it in this article!



A singular masculine noun that begins with a consonant
DU = DE + LE
Examples :
L’ordinateur du garçon. → L’ordinateur de le garçon. → The boy’s computer.
Je reviens du café. → Je reviens de le café. → I’m coming back from the bar.
Here café means the place where you drink coffee.

A Singular, masculine or feminine noun that begins with a vowel
We use DE L’
Examples :
Le sac de l’étudiant. → The bag of the student.
Le sac de l’étudiante. → The bag of the student.

When the designated thing is a generality and it begins with a vowel
We use D’
Examples :
Le professeur d’orthographe. → The spelling teacher.
This is the spelling in general.
Le professeur d’informatique. → The computer teacher.
It’s computer science in general.

A Masculine or feminine plural noun
We use DES
Examples :
L’ordinateur des garçons. → The boys computer.
Les oreilles des éléphants. → The ears of elephants.
Exercices
1 – La maison………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Catherine.
Catherine’s house.
2 – Le professeur……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………biologie.
The professor of biology.
3 – Les oreilles…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……….chien.
The dog’s ears.
4 – Ce midi à la cantine, il y avait……………………………………………………………………………….poisson au menu.
This lunch in the canteen, there was fish on the menu.
5 – Ce joueur a marqué un très beau but……………………………………………………………………………………….tête.
This player scored a beautiful goal of the head.
6 – Quand tu auras fini la vaisselle, tu pourras faire……………………………………………………………………..vélo.
When you finish the dishes, you can ride a bike.
7 – Cette année nous avons eu une belle récolte…………………………………………………………………………….blé.
This year we had a nice harvest of wheat.

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About teaching French as a foreign language, I learnt...
In this article, I share with you my experience :
–In language learning
and
–Teacher of French as a Foreign Language
Language learning at school
At school, I spent years studying the rules of French grammar, I was bored and the French language is so complicated that to remember all the rules of grammar is impossible, even for a person who speaks French as a native language, which is my case.
If you ask a Frenchman about a rule that you do not understand, surely he will not answer you because French is very complicated.
But not impossible to learn!
To complete this topic, have a look at 6 ways school has killed your French learning – and 4 solutions to catch up from https://frenchlover.org/blog.
It’s the same for English, I took the English language as the main language (Spanish was my second language), and after several years of school I hardly spoke English. And I could not understand it, whether watching a movie, listening to songs or trying to talk to someone.
My experience in an international city
When I arrived in Geneva (Switzerland), which is an international city where more than half of the population is foreign (a large majority of English speakers), I was frustrated because I had trouble communicating, in other words, 7 years of learning English at school, resulting in frustration at being unable to communicate, interacting with others, not being able to enrich myself with all the cultures that abound in an international city (London, Berlin …).
I lived in a human gold mine and I did not have access to gold !
So I decided to take myself in hand to improve my English, to access this wealth. Since then,

* I watch movies in English (US English and UK English)
* I participate in linguistic exchanges

I improved my English much more by doing this (I’ve been doing it for 2 years), than in 7 years at school. Some people told me that I had improved much during this period. In France, I had never been told that.
Important : having solid basics
The English language is not difficult from the point of view of grammar, so it is not obligatory to speak English well, to study the rules of grammar. On the other hand, French is much more complicated, the French language can be summarized as “rules + exceptions”, so it seems essential to me to know some basic rules.
Simple grammar notions to build a good foundation for the practice of French :
–The difference between “C’est” and “Il est”
–The differences between the prepositions DU and DE
–The differences between the relatives pronouns QUE and QUI...

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* When you learn French, do you know what types of memory you use?
* Or rather, what types of memory are involved at different times of learning French?


The short-term-memory
The short-term-memory

* Is a temporary memory (less than a minute) of very limited capacity (about 7 elements)
* Has the function of storing data

It allows, for example :

* Hold a phone number before dialing
* Read, be interrupted, and repeat in paragraph or phrase where I was
* Remember the beginning of this sentence while continuing to read it

Short-term memory is the first step in longer-term memory.
If we want to learn information, we can engage in a voluntary learning process (repeating the information many times) to store it in the long-term memory.
The Working memory
It is a sophistication of short-term memory.
The Work memory

* Is a temporary memory (less than a minute) of very limited capacity (about 7 elements) Has the function to store and simultaneously work a data
* Indeed, according to Baddeley (Baddeley’s_model_of_working_memory), working memory is “a system that temporarily holds and manipulates information while performing tasks such as understanding, learning and reasoning“.

It is essential for performing cognitive tasks.
It allows, for example :

* Perform any mental operation that consists of classifying, organizing, ordering, prioritizing, sorting, comparing data
* Listen to a speech while taking notes
* Remember a few words in a foreign language to be able to structure them into a sentence that makes sense

We are capable of such performance thanks to our working memory.
The difference between short-term memory and working memory

* Short-term memory = ability to retain data for a very limited time without being manipulated

When these data are manipulated, transformed → is working memory
There is therefore a management function related to the working memory, but absent from the short-term memory

* Short-term memory can operate independently of long-term memory

Working memory is fundamentally related to long-term memory

* Short-term memory can operate independently of working memory

Working memory needs short-term memory to function
The long-term memory

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Hi / Hello / Bye
Bonjour ! → Hi, Hello
Ça va ? / Comment allez-vous ? → How are you ?
Au revoir ! → Bye
On se voit plus tard ! → See you later
Bonne journée ! → Have a nice day
On s’appelle / On reste en contact ! → We keep in touch
The events
Bonne année ! → Happy new year
Joyeux Noël ! → Merry christmas
Joyeux anniversaire ! → Happy birthday
I give my opinion
C’est pas mal ! → It’s not bad
C’est génial ! → It’s amazing
C’est fou ! → It’s crazy
J’adore ! → I love it
Ça a l’air bien ! → It looks nice
C’est dégueulasse ! → It’s disgusting
Je ne sais pas. → I don’t know
Ça dépend ! → It depends
C’est la vie ! → This is life
Petit à petit ! → Step by step
Surprises
J’y crois pas ! → I don’t believe it
In addition, here are some articles i wrote

* The prepositions DE and DU + Exercises
* “C’est” and “Il est” + Exercises
* What did i learn about teaching French as a foreign language ?
* 10 French expressions to know + Exercises !
* How to improve the oral comprehension in French ?

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Reflective pronouns + Exercises

Reflective Pronouns
The pronominal form = when the verb is preceded by a reflective pronoun.
Reflective pronoun = pronoun that represents the same person as the subject.
The subject does the action on himself.
Here is the table of reflexive pronouns



 1st person singular    JE

me / m’



 2nd person singular    TU

te / t’



 3rd person singular    IL/ELLE

se / s’



 1st person plural    NOUS

nous



 2nd person plural    VOUS

vous



 3rd person plural    ILS/ELLES

se / s’




Examples :
Je me perds dans la ville → I'm getting lost in the city
Tu te perds dans la ville → You’re getting lost in the city
Il se perd dans la ville → He’s getting lost in the city
Nous nous perdons dans la ville → We’re getting lost in the city
Reflective pronoun : In the past
A pronominal verb is always conjugated with the auxiliary ETRE in the past.
Examples :
Nous nous sommes (auxiliary ETRE) rencontrés par hasard. → We met by chance.
Nous nous sommes (auxiliary ETRE) lavés les mains avant de passer à table. → We washed our hands before going to dinner.
Reflective pronoun : 3 important expressions that use pronominal verbs

* Se faire mal → to harm one's self 
Je me suis fait mal au genou. → I hurt my knee.
* Se rendre compte de quelque chose → To realize something
Je me suis rendu compte de mon erreur → I realized my mistake / Je me suis rendu compte que je me suis trompé de chemin. → I realized that I was wrong.
* Se donner rendez-vous → To make an appointment
On se donne rendez-vous ce soir à 23 heures devant le café ? → Do we meet tonight at 11 pm in front of the café ?

Exercises
Conjugate these verbs in present tense
Example :
Je (se doucher) tous les soirs. → I (shower) every night.
Je me douche tous les soirs. → I shower every night.
Tu (se lever) vers 8 heures. → You (get up) around 8 o'clock.
…………………………………………………………………………………………….
Marie (se coucher) à 23 heures. → Marie (to go to bed) at 11 pm.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Nous (se téléphoner) tous les dimanches. → We (call each other) every Sunday.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Vous (ne pas se dépêcher) beaucoup ! → You (do not hurry) a lot!
……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Julien et Sylvie (s’inscrire) à l’université. → Julien and Sylvie (register) at the university.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Conjugate these verbs in the past tense
Examples :
Je (s’asseoir) sur le canapé. → I (sit down) on the couch.
Je me suis assis(e) sur le canapé. → I sat on the couch.
Tu (se maquiller) pour sortir. → You (put on makeup) to go out.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Le professeur (se procurer) un bon livre. → The teacher (get hold of) a good book.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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 Podcast_French Dictation : Paris
You can see below, the pictures of the buildings mentionned in the podcast.
Surplomber Paris du sommet de la tour Eiffel à 324 mètres de hauteur, admirer les gargouilles de Notre-Dame chères à Victor Hugo, ou dominer la plus haute colline de Paris depuis la basilique du Sacré Cœur. A eux seuls, ces monuments forment les trois visites privilégiés par les touristes. Non loin de Notre-Dame, la Sainte Chapelle et ses remarquables vitraux méritent aussi que l’on s’y attarde.  A deux pas des Champs-Elysées, le Grand Palais, immense vaisseau de verre et de pierre, abrite des expositions prestigieuses, et le parc Rives de Seine, qui propose de se balader sereinement en famille tout le long de la Seine. L’Arc de Triomphe construit par Napoléon offre une vue panoramique époustouflante sur la ville.
La Tour Eiffel
Notre-Dame
Les gargouilles de Notre-Dame
La basilique du Sacré-Coeur
La Sainte Chapelle
Les vitraux de la Sainte Chapelle
Les Champs-Elysées
Le Grand Palais
Les rives de la Seine
L'Arc de Triomphe
In addition, here are some articles i wrote

* The prepositions DE and DU + Exercises
* “C’est” and “Il est” + Exercises
* What did i learn about teaching French as a foreign language ?
* 10 French expressions to know + Exercises !
* How to improve the oral comprehension in French ?

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Improve your french with 2 French Dictations
French Dictation : La langue française
Le français, langue officielle de la France tient son origine du latin et du grec. Au dix-huitième siècle, le français est la langue officielle dans les cours européennes. Langue officielle du droit et de l'administration, la langue française a encore pris de l'ampleur grâce à la création de l'Académie française. En effet, elle acquiert là un vocabulaire et une grammaire normés.
Aujourd'hui, le français fait partie des six langues officielles reconnues par les Nations Unies. Elle est également la langue officielle du Vatican.
 
French Dictation : La musique 
La France comporte un grand nombre d'artistes de variété. La chanson française contribue également à mettre en avant la langue et la culture française. De nombreux artistes se succèdent depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Citons notamment Gainsbourg, Ferrat, Nougaro, Hallyday, Montand et bien d'autres. La chanson française puise son inspiration dans la poésie et la littérature française. Ainsi, des auteurs tels que Baudelaire, Rimbaud ou encore Verlaine ont été des sources d'inspiration inestimables pour de nombreux artistes. 
La musique classique connait quant à elle des artistes tels que Berlioz, Offenbach ou encore Debussy.
In addition, here are some articles i wrote

* The prepositions DE and DU + Exercises
* “C’est” and “Il est” + Exercises
* What did i learn about teaching French as a foreign language ?
* 10 French expressions to know + Exercises !
* How to improve the oral comprehension in French ?

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My story : Why I created a blog about learning French

Hello everyone, welcome to this video, I am Thomas Ricomard from the blog Fast French Learning. In this video I'm going to share with you what is my project,

Why I created a blog about learning French ?




1 ) How to improve my English ? How to improve learning a foreign language ?

I lived 7 years in Geneva, in Switzerland, which is an international city.
It's a city, separated into language groups : French speakers, English speakers , Spanish speakers, ...
It is impossible to meet the people from Geneva (the French speakers), the Swiss people stay between them.
The only way to meet people was to speak English, to improve my English, to meet the English speakers.



-French-English exchanges :
Every Saturday in a restaurant bar, we made groups from 2-3 to 4-5-6 people, we talked during 2 hours. I had a notebook (I still have it). At my place, before sleeping, I watched movies and I wrote in my notebook what I didn’t understand from the movie, I came back to the language exchange with my notebook and I asked to native speakers

* “What does it mean ?”
* “How do you pronounce this word ?”
* “In which context can we use this expression ?”
* “Are there different ways to say that ?”
* …..

That was very helpful, I improved my English → it was a time to learn the language. I never improved enough to have the same talks I have in my mother tongue (French), it is frustrating but we have to go through steps to speak fluently, whatever the point we want to reach we need to go through steps.
With some of these people, we became friends and we continued to see each other during the language exchange and as well out of this moment (we went to eat at the restaurant, in bars, we went to karaoke nights where I sang in English, I should make a video about learning languages with songs and only music, that’s very interesting). During these moments I spoke the “real english”, the one you need to know to meet people, to party, to have fun, it was a time to really speak !
Only with this event I had more than once a week to improve my english, which was very nice !



-Meeting between foreigners :

Every Tuesday I went to foreigners meeting : Mundo Lingo. It was more to meet people than to learn more the language, but I spoke English half the time, so it was very good to practice the “real english”, the english you speak when you meet people randomly in a bar or somewhere else. That was very cool as well because I met people from all around the world (Americans, South Americans, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese,…)
I met friends and we saw each other at other times during the week, to continue to speak sometimes in English and sometimes in French, because some English speakers wanted to improve their French.



-Cultural exchanges :

Every Tuesday I went to foreigners meeting : Couch Surfing. Meeting people from all around the world. Speaking French and English, having fun.
I met a lot of English speakers, the French language is very hard for them.
So I asked myself the questions :

* What are the links between English and French ?
* What are the common elements between these 2 languages ?
* What in the English language makes it easier to learn French ?
* What in the English language is a barrier to learning French ?

I started asking questions and I continue to search.
2 ) What are the memorization techniques ?

How to express the duration in French + Exercises
Il y a, dans, depuis, pendant, en, à partir de, jusqu’à
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The duration in French : Il y a (ago)
To express the duration between a completed action and the moment when one speaks.
You use Il y a with the past tense.
Examples :
Il est rentré (passé composé → past) il y a un an/un mois. → He came back a year / a month ago.
Je suis arrivé (passé composé → past) il y a 2 heures. → I arrived 2 hours ago.
Elle était (imparfait → past) là il y a 10 minutes. → She was there 10 minutes ago.
Il y a une semaine j’ai vu (passé composé → past) un film. → A week ago i saw a movie.
Ils sont partis (passé composé → past) il y a longtemps. → They left a long time ago.
 
The duration in French : Dans (in)
To express the length of time between speaking and future action.
You use Dans with the preset tense or the future.
Examples :
Elle part (présent de l’indicatif → present tense) dans un mois. → She leaves in a month.
Elle va partir (futur → future) dans un mois. → She will leave in a month.
Nous serons (futur → future) chez toi dans 876 heures. → We will be at your place in 6 hours.
Je suis (présent de l’indicatif → present tense) à Paris dans 15 jours. → I am in Paris in 15 days.
Elle va (présent de l’indicatif → present tense) en France dans 6 mois. → She goes to France in 6 months.
 
The duration in French : Depuis (since, for)
There are 2 uses of the word depuis.
1 - It indicates the starting point of an action, an action that begins in the past and continues in the present.
You use Depuis with the present tense.
Examples :
Je travaille depuis le 1er Avril. → I work since April 1st.
Je ne travaille pas depuis le 1er Avril. → I do not work since April 1st.
Depuis quand habitez-vous ici ? → How long have you lived here ?
J’habite ici depuis 2010. → I have lived here for 2 years.
Nous attendons depuis 1 heure. → We have been waiting for an hour.
2 - It indicates an action that ended in the past.
You use Depuis with the past tense (Imparfait or Passé composé).
Examples :
Je n’ai pas travaillé (passé composé) depuis le 1er Avril. → I have not worked since April 1st.
Je dormais (imparfait) depuis 1 heure quand mon fils s’est réveillé (passé composé).→ I slept for 1 hour when my son woke up.
Je vivais (imparfait) en Autriche depuis 4 ans quand ma fille est née (passé composé). → I lived in Austria for 4 years when my daughter was born.
Il dormait (imparfait) depuis 2 heures quand je suis arrivé (passé composé). → He had been sleeping for 2 hours when i arrived.
Je marchais (imparfait) depuis 1 heure quand Julien m’a appelé (passé composé). → I had been walking for 1 hour when Julien called me.
 
The duration in French : Pendant (for, during, how long)
It indicates the duration of an action. It refers to an action in the past or the future, unrelated to the present.
Examples :
Pendant combien de temps avez-vous étudié le français ? → How long did you study French ?
J’ai étudié le français pendant 5 ans. → I studied French for 5 years.

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2 Tips To learn And Improve Your French : Memory and Knowledge
Studies have shown that memory is an assimilation to previous knowledge, with deformation, a simplification of vocabulary, ...
The memorization is generally an integration into previously stored knowledge. In the memories, there may be, a reinterpretation of details or an invention of details for consistency.

To learn and improve your French
-When I learn a foreign language, I use my previous knowledge, in other words, my mother tongue, for example to remind me of vocabulary words, sentence structure, masculine and feminine, ...
For example, the English speakers have a hard time differentiating between masculine and feminine in French because in English, sometimes, there is no difference between the two (example : the monkey is eating = it is eating (not she or he)).
So when learning a foreign language, it's important to consider that, to pay attention to which element in my mother tongue can make it difficult to learn a foreign language.
-It can also helps me, what are the common points between my mother tongue and my target language? For example, the structure of the sentence in English and in French is the same : Subject + Verb + Complement.
Example : Je mange une pomme → i am eating an apple
2 tips to learn and improve your French : Learning Transfer
Life would always have to be redone if new learning was needed for each new activity.
Example : I learn to drive with the car of the driving school, I spend as many hours relearning to drive with my own car.
This is not the case thanks to the flexibility of the brain.
Most often a learning facilitates the 2nd  one : it is the transfer of learning.
School education is transfer-based because it is rare to find something in life that looks exactly like the one learned at school or university.
Studies show that the transfer is effective only if the second learning is very similar to the first learning.
Reed (1917) showed that students trained to learn syllable lists did not learn poetry faster, or a Latin vocabulary.
If I know how to drive a car, I will easily adapt to another car, but I will not be able to drive a motorcycle or a helicopter.

To learn and improve your French
-Learning words from the same lexical field, inserted in sentences (thus inscribed in a context) → because it's easier to remember.
I study a 1st lexical field, I develop skills (learning groups of words, associate mental images, be able to reproduce these specific informations) that I can transfer to learning the 2nd lexical field. It contributes to the motivation and the desire to continue : I managed to learn the words of the 1st lexical field, it makes me happy, I want to re-feel this pleasure, I will easily learn the words of the 2nd lexical fiel...