Laura K. Lawless's Blog: Lawless Languages, page 316
November 16, 2017
Le beaujolais nouveau
The third Thursday in November is Beaujolais Nouveau Day, but is it worth all the fuss?
Published on Lawless French.
November 14, 2017
Agreement with vous
Vous can be every type of personal pronoun, but its role as a subject pronoun may be the trickiest because of agreement.
Published on Lawless French.
November 13, 2017
LKL on The Earful Tower
Want to know a bit about Guadeloupe and how I got here? Find that out - along with a bunch of fun French facts - in this podcast interview with Oliver Gee at The Earful Tower.
Published on Lawless French.
November 12, 2017
Alphabet
If you want to read and write in French, one of the first things you should learn is the alphabet. Fortunately, French has the same 26 letters as English. Unfortunately, most of the names of letters are pronounced differently, as are many of the sounds.
Published on Lawless French.
November 10, 2017
November 8, 2017
Informal Pronouns
Pronoun usage and pronunciation varies greatly between formal and informal French. Much of what you learn at school is formal and doesn't reflect how French is actually spoken. If you want to sound more French in informal situations—not to mention understand what you hear—you need to be aware of these pronoun differences.
Published on Lawless French.
November 7, 2017
November 5, 2017
Tongue Twisters
Think you've mastered French pronunciation? See how well you can twist your tongue around some virelangues. Repeat these alliterative and/or rhyming and/or confusing phrases as quickly as possible to put your French pronunciation to a test that even native speakers have trouble with.
Published on Lawless French.
November 3, 2017
Arriver comme un cheveu sur la soupe
Turn up at the right time with the French idiom arriver comme un cheveu sur la soupe.
Published on Lawless French.
November 2, 2017
Reciprocal Verbs
Reciprocal verbs use a reflexive pronoun to indicate that the action of the verb is exchanged between two or more subjects acting upon each other.
Published on Lawless French.
