The Cloud-by-Cloud Method
Learn French
horizontally
with a French Teacher.
I'm quite sure that no-one knows all the words of a language. Learning lists is a neverending task, because you learn vertically.
| How | to order | a beer |
| How | to book | a room |
| How | to buy | a shirt |
| How | to rent | a car |
But there is only one horizontal structure:
adverb + verb + object.
I won't tell you that all French structures are that simple!
But their number is limited.
Learn one cloud at a time. The first lesson teaches you the canonical order
of the French sentence: subject + verb + complement.
Then, you will learn a second cloud: the negative sentence. Later, you will
not find difficult to learn the structure of a negative sentence with a
complement.
Your cloud of knowledge will grow by aggregation, the largest one absorbing
the smallest.
But since not everybody learns the same way as their neighbor, I also give links to more formal explanations.
Of course, since vocabulary is needed
to learn the structures of the French language, you learn the basic vocabulary
in the process.
Most often, my choice of words is based on the frequency of their showing
up in everyday French.
French Clouds
- Canonical order of a French sentence
- The negative sentence (1)
- Find your bearings: prepositions of location (1)
- Etre and Avoir: Essence and experience
- Je m'appelle...
- Je t'appelle...
- Aller en vacances
- The Pleasure of commanding
- Personal Pronouns, first review
- The Order of French Personal Pronouns
- Je peux, si je veux
- Faire ou faire faire?
- Elle a eu des malheurs
- C'est celui qui le dit qui l'est
- Le pays que j'aime, dont je parle et où je vis
- Très vite, le guépard court très vite
Short expositions about French language
But what the heck is this?
You can read the story in French, and/or listen to the podcast:
How the societe Cadic enslaved a too trustful man, (Pierre, my husband).
Enslaved? Yes. Read the definition of what the modern slavery is: Slaves are deprived of the right to [...] receive compensation (such as wages) in return for their labour.
As such, slavery is one form of unfree labor.
You use Facebook to keep up with your friends.
What do you use to deal with your enemies?
The newest version of my Pastry Making book: English-Hindi.
These are short booklets (70p).
Give two of them (so that you don't look mean), and it is the beginning of a collection.
With 2 new releases a year, you will never have to find what to give next Christmas or next birthday.
- © 2008 Gabrielle Guichard