French Progress

More useful phrases for DuoLinguo: Tout droit => straight ahead

 I keep on forgetting the gender of some of the nouns used in DuoLingo.  Here's a few Une robe => dress Un pantalon Une chemise => shirt Un appartement Un manteau => coat Un immeuble => block of flats Une veste => jacket Un café Une rue => road/street => cette rue Un musée Une avenue Un musée Une banque Une adresse

Useful words and phrases of the day today, mostly in the business arena Valable => Valid Tenue une réunion => Hold a meeting Gestion de => Management of Rapports à => Reports to

Phrases of certainty (indicative) and uncertainty/orders (subjunctive): Il arrive que le noun + subjunctive (sometimes...) Il suffit que vous + subjunctive (you just have to.../all you have to do is...) Il paraît que le noun + indicative (it seems that...) Il est indispensable que vous (it is necessary that you...) Il est obligatoire que vous + subjunctive (you must...) Il faut que vous + subjunctive (you must...) Il est necessaire que + subjunctive (you must...)

All: tout (ms); toute (fs); tous (mp); toutes (fp) So « bonjour à toutes et à tous » translates to "hello ladies and gentlemen."

Words of the Day délocalisation => offshoring des rejets => emissions un(e) riverain(e) => resident summer temperatures => des températures estivales mettre en route => put in motion la fermeture => closure la tempête/l'orage => storm Imperative; that is, giving orders Infinitive Interdiction de + infinitive Défense de + infinitive Prière de + infinitive (ask someone to kindly do something) Merci de + infinitive

Today it's more about revision of phrases that can be of use: parmis ces trois => of these three/among these three (useful at the start of a question or phrase) laquelle de ces => which of these (also useful at the start of a question)  les conseils => tips à l'avenir => in the future à partir de 2023 il y aura => from 2023 there will be dans dix ans => in ten years en 2023 => in 2023  Types of Energy énergie fossile => fossil énergie éolienne => wind énergie solaire => solar énergie hydroélectrique => HEP énergie géothermique => geothermal Imperative Reflexive Verbs Swap the noun and verb unless it's a negative: Lève-toi; restez-vous Ne te lève pas; ne vous restez pas Relative Pronouns Simple Case: subject (person or thing) => qui direct object (person or thing) => que Complex Cases: After à, de, sans and pour (does this mean all indirect objects?) when talking about things: lequel (ms), laquelle (fs), lesquels (mp), lesquelles (fp...

Today I've learned more useful words and phrases, and I'm revising a few others that I've forgotten: car => because, for les éoliennes => wind turbines le gaz à effet de serre => greenhouse gas encore et toujours => again and again aisément => easily lorsque => when dès que => as soon as or => now, but  The future perfect tense (will have done something) is pronoun+future of avoir/être +past participle: Ce temps demain, il aura été au medicin. To help with this tense, this is the future tense of avoir : j'aurai tu auras il/elle/on aura nous aurons vous aurez ils/elles auront

I'm (re)learning French by studying  L222 with the OU and also I use the DuoLingo app for everyday French.  I struggle with speaking French, but my reading is starting to slowly improve.  To date I've been keeping notes on my progress in French in a book, but now I'm also going to consider documenting it on-line. Useful words and phrases that I've learned today: disponibles => available L'usine => factory L'énergie solaire => solar energy Useful words and phrases that I already know, but it's useful to remember and make use of: assez => enough ainsi que => as well as Often use "de" in a negative, "du/de la" in positive singular and "des" in positive plural.  They aren't opposites and it's wrong therefore, but in practice these tend to be more useful: Je mange de la soup.  Il ne mange pas de soupe. Je n'ai pas de pommes de terres.  Je doit acheter des pommes de terres.