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Tourist Office – Writing Challenge

Practice your French translation and writing skills with this B2-level writing challenge:

   Welcome to Bordeaux's Tourist Office

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

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Managing Speaking Anxiety

Fear of speaking, glossophobia, is one of the most common phobias - even just in one's native language. If you feel nervous when speaking French, it's probably due to a lack of confidence in your skills. The obvious solution is to improve your French, but there are also other ways to increase your confidence and feel more comfortable speaking French.

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Adjectives with Prepositions

When describing someone as capable of doing or determined to do something, a preposition is required between the adjective and verb. In Italian, the choice of preposition depends on the adjective that precedes it, not the verb that follows.

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Third Person Imperative

Rather than the imperative mood, third person orders (indirect commands, wishes, concessions, suppositions, exclamations) are given with que + subjunctive, with no preceding main clause. These are generally equivalent to "let" or "may" in English.

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Arriver – to arrive, happen

The French verb arriver usually means "to arrive" or "to happen." It's a regular -er verb that requires être as its auxiliary verb in compound tenses/moods.

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Ello – Neuter Subject Pronoun

Ello is the Spanish neuter subject pronoun, used to mean "it" or "this" when referring to something non-specific, such as a situation or idea.

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Un ange passe

Break an awkward silence with the French expression un ange passe.

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Passé composé Quiz: Un bébé remuant

Test yourself on avoir vs être (French auxiliary verbs) in the passé composé with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:

   Un bébé remuant

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Passive se Quiz – Gazpacho Recipe

Test yourself on the passive se construction with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:

   Receta de gazpacho

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Relearning French

Is your French as rusty as an old can? Did you live in France years ago or study it in high school—and promptly forget everything upon leaving? The fact is that language ability fades with lack of practice. If you used to know French but haven't spoken it in years or decades, the bad news is that it probably won't come rushing back all at once. But the good news is that you can relearn it much more quickly than if you were starting out without that previous knowledge.

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