Lalphabet de la famille (Mon premier alphabet) (French Edition)

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The advice offered in this book, is to avoid these tricks , and to associate word and sentence sounds with their meaning. Listen to the new word or sentence, and store the meaning in your brain. Do not try to translate one language into your native language before responding. Simply associate the word or sentence, but do not translate it. When you go shopping, and hear customers saying in English "How much is that?

After associating ten things about the word "Combien" the brain will simplify matters for you, much like it pulls the steering wheel with your arm, after the eyes see a pot-hole ahead. Forever more, "Combien" will be associated with a quantity "How much", or "How many" just as pot-holes are associated with "avoid. French is based on the Latin alphabet also called the Roman alphabet , and there are 26 letters.

Originally there were 25 letters, with 'W' being added by the mid-nineteenth century. Unlike the English, who call it a "double-u," the French use "double-v" and pronounce it doo-bluh-vay after the 'V' which is pronounced vay. These two letters are used mostly with adopted foreign words. The French alphabet used today is less than years old.

In addition, French uses several accents: A circumflex applies to all vowels, except Y considered as a vowel: Two combined letters called orthographic ligatures are used: Finally, a cedilla is used on the c to make it sound like an English s: In French, certain consonants are silent when they are the final letter of a word. The letters d , l , n , s , t and z are pronounced with the tip of the tongue against the upper teeth and the middle of the tongue against the roof of the mouth. In English, one would pronounce these letters with the tip of the tongue at the roof of one's mouth. Unlike English, when you pronounce the letters b and p in French, little to no air should come out of your mouth.

In terms of phonetics, the difference in the French b and p and their English counterparts is one of aspiration. Fortunately, in English both aspirated and unaspirated variants allophones exist, but only in specific environments. If you're a native speaker, say the word pit and then the word spit out loud. Did you notice the extra puff of air in the first word that doesn't come with the second?

The letter 'q' is always followed by a 'u'. There are only two exceptions, 'cinq' five and 'coq' rooster. A final 'r' after 'e' is generally mute, but it is pronounced on words of one syllable 'fer' iron , 'mer' sea and 'hier' yesterday. The h is never pronounced, whether it is aspirated or not aspirated. The only way to tell if the h at the beginning of a word is aspirated is to look it up in the dictionary.

In short, the words must be memorized. Five different kinds of accent marks are used in written French. In many cases, an accent changes the sound of the letter to which it is added. In others, the accent has no effect on pronunciation. Accents in French never indicate stress which always falls on the last syllable. The following table lists every French accent mark and the letters with which it can be combined:. Since this reform is relatively recent and mostly unknown to laypeople, the two spellings can be used interchangeably. The acute accent is the most common accent used in written French.

This accent is often called a 'hat' in language and mathematics, and usually indicates the disappearance of the old-French s after the vowel wearing it the hat but this s can still be found in a noun or a verb of the same lexical family. The cedilla is used only with the letter c , and is said to make the c soft , making it equivalent to the English and French s.

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When talking to one's peers or to children, Salut is used as a greeting. Its English equivalents would be hi and hey. Bonjour , literally meaning good day , should be used for anyone else. One is upon arrival, the other upon departure. In addition to being used as an informal greeting, Salut also means bye. Again, it should only be used among friends. Another informal greeting is ciao , an Italian word commonly used in France.

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Au revoir is the only formal way to say Good-bye. It is normal to just reply by stating your name, however you may also respond with [[wikt: Je m'appelle [ name ]. The phrase literally means It goes? A more formal way to say this is Comment allez-vous? Bien is preceded by certain adverbs to specify the degree to which you are well. Highlight or hover over a line to show the answer.

This is an important difference between French and English today. English no longer distinguishes between the singular, and the plural, formal version of you. The use of thou for the informal singular version faded almost completely by the mid-nineteenth century. Vous is the plural form of you. This is somewhat equivalent to you all , you guys , all of you , except that it does not carry any familiarity when used with the plural. You would use it to address your friends as well as when talking to the whole government at a press conference.

Vous is also used to refer to single individuals to show respect, to be polite or to be neutral. It is used when talking to someone who is important, someone who is older than you are, or someone with whom you are unfamiliar. This is known as Vouvoiement. Note the conversation between M.

Lambert above as an example of this use. Conversely, tu is the singular and informal form of vous you in French. It is commonly used when referring to a friend or a family member, and is also used between children or when addressing a child. If it is used when speaking to a stranger, it signals disrespect. This is known as Tutoiement. As a rule of thumb, use tu only when you would call that person by his first name, otherwise use vous. French people will make it known when they would like you to refer to them by tu. The use of vous is less common in Quebequois than in French from France.

In sociolinguistics, a T—V distinction describes the situation wherein a language has second-person pronouns that distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, or insult toward the addressee. The expressions T-form informal and V-form formal , with reference to the initial letters of these pronouns in Latin, tu and vos.

In Latin, tu was originally the singular, and vos the plural, with no distinction for honorific or familiar. It was only between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries that the norms for the use of T- and V-forms crystallized. Note that with vous , the verb appelez is spelled with one 'l', whereas with tu it has two l's appelles. This is an irregular conjugation which will be covered more in-depth in a later lesson. You are at your first business conference representing your new company, and your manager begins to speak with a colleague you have never met.

You want to greet him, tell him your name, and ask him his name. We can remark that 21, 31, 41, 51, 61 and 71 can have et un with or without a hyphen; otherwise this it is simply both words consecutively vingt-six , trente-trois , etc with a hyphen in between. For , cent is added before the rest of the number; this continues up to and onward. Many speakers of French outside of France refer to the numbers 70 to 99 in the same pattern as the other numbers.

On May 5, one would say "C'est le cinq mai. In French, il est is used to express the time; though it would literally translate as he is , it is actually, in this case, equivalent to it is impersonal il. Unlike in English, it is always important to use heures hours when referring to the time. Time is often abbreviated using h for heure s. For example, 9 o'clock AM would be 9h or 9h They also use hour time in this format, so 10 o'clock PM would be 22h. In addition, French uses several accents which are worth understanding. A circumflex applies to all vowels: Two combined letters are used: The French time system traditionally uses a hour scale.

Shorthand for writing times in French follows the format "17h30", which would represent 5: Its adjective equivalent is bon ne , which means good.

Since je vais , meaning I go , uses an action verb, the adverb bien is used. In English, I'm good, which uses the linking verb am , is followed by an adjective rather than an adverb. This can be used in a similar manner to do in English. Instead of You want it? Chez moi is used to say at my place. Chez [ name ] is used to say at [ name' s] place. The following test will confirm your progress in the French introduction. Try to answer the questions to the best of your ability without turning to the previous chapters or consulting the test answers. Translate this dialogue between Henri and Jacques into English.

Each phrase is worth 1 points. In French, all nouns have a grammatical gender ; that is, they are either masculine m or feminine f. Most nouns that express people or animals have both a masculine and a feminine form.

For example, the two words for the actor in French are l'acteur and l'actrice. However, there are some nouns that talk about people or animals whose gender is fixed, regardless of the actual gender of the person or animal. For example, la personne the person is always feminine, even when it's talking about your uncle; le professeur the teacher is always masculine, even when it's talking about your female professor or teacher.

The nouns that express things without an obvious gender e. This form can be masculine or feminine. For example, la voiture the car can only be feminine; le stylo the pen can only be masculine. Notify me of new comments via email. Menu Skip to content. Introductions Alphabet Games and mini-tests to help you to learn the French alphabet.

Chiffres 0 — 31 Games and mini-tests to help you to learn your numbers. Zut is an excellent site — it has loads of games and exercises to help you to learn French. Click on the headphones to hear the number you need, then zap those aliens! Go on, I dare you! Il y a combien de?

Little exercise to practice numbers. Link to words to songs and print activities for the above 2 activities and a few more. Cheesy song to practice numbers 11 — Maths activity — numbers 11 — Counting activity — numbers 11 —

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