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Il est or c’est – that is the question!
It’s often the little words in French that are most problematic and today’s grammar question is one that I often get asked. There are a...
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Aug 25, 20211 min read


Learn the imperatives in Spanish – that’s an order!
The easiest way to learn the imperatives (or command form of the verbs in Spanish) is to break them down into positive and negative...
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Aug 25, 20211 min read


Telling someone to do something doesn’t mean it’ll happen… (Subjunctive in French, part 1)
The subjunctive in French is often referred to as a tense, but in fact, it is a mood, not a tense. A tense means that the action will...
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Aug 25, 20211 min read


What does ‘quoi’ mean? The answer is (partly) in the title!
Quoi crops up again and again in French conversation and has several meanings. First and foremost, it means what. It can be used in the...
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Aug 25, 20212 min read


Peut-être n’est pas, peut-être, si évident…
‘Perhaps’, in French, is maybe not as straightforward as it first seems (but at least French only has one word: ‘peut-être’ for our...
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Aug 25, 20211 min read


Some mistakes are easy to make… when you’re speaking French
Recent scripted conversations threw up some imaginative endings when people were faced with the realisation that they had gone the wrong...
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Aug 25, 20211 min read


Why is speaking another language so difficult?
I often have people telling me that they are good at understanding written or spoken French, Spanish or German, but really struggle...
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Jul 15, 20213 min read
Here’s a reminder about remembering in French…
The French conversation via Zoom last week was about remembering the good old times, le bon vieux temps, threw up lots of questions about...
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Apr 14, 20212 min read
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