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Subjunctive Conjugations

Conjugating regular Spanish verbs in the subjunctive is mostly a matter of changing one vowel to another.

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Le Louvre à fond

The Louvre is the largest art museum in the world. It would take months to see each of the 🏺 35,000 pieces of art 🖼️ displayed at any given time, but most visits generally last about 2-4 hours - including time to admire la Joconde (the Mona Lisa) and the Venus de Milo.


This issue of Lawless French à fond offers vocabulary, grammar, and listening practice exercises related to museums in general and le Louvre in particular.

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Par-ci, par-là

You'll definitely need the French expression par-ci, par-là now and then.

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La guardería – Pronominal Verb Quiz

Test yourself on pronominal vs non-pronominal verbs with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:

   Preparativos para la guardería

Note: You must be logged into your Progress with Lawless Spanish account to take this test. If you don't have one, sign up - it's free!

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Votre horoscope: Future Quiz

Test yourself on future conjugations with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:

   Votre horoscope

Note: You must be logged into your Progress with Lawless French account to take this test. If you don't have one, sign up - it's free!

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Nationalities

Every country and continent has an adjective that can be used to describe people and things from that place. Those same adjectives can also be used as nouns to refer to people from that place, with one small change in Italian.

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Dictées

Dictées are a classic way to practice French, even for native speakers. For them, dictées are a test of grammar (particularly agreement) and spelling - sort of like super-charged spelling bees. For French students, dictées are an excellent form of combined listening and writing practice.

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Por vs Para

The Spanish prepositions por and para tend to be difficult for Spanish students, because they can - but don't always - both mean "for." Por is considerably more common, so in theory, you might be able to get away with just memorizing the uses for para and then using por for everything else. In reality, it's good to learn the rules, so here they are.

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Chores

No one likes to do them, but everyone has to. Learn how to talk about common household chores in French.

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Sauver la mise

Save the day with the idiomatic French expression sauver la mise.

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