Transition words. The French love transitions since they make thoughts more logical and orderly.

Below are some helpful transition words. Use them. They will make your papers and conversation more fluid. dabord puis par suite ensuite aprs enfin donc mais en gnral alors de mme de plus cependant pourtant en fait en revanche ainsi pour cette raison en effet par contre first of all next following then after that finally therefore but generally therefore furthermore moreover, also however however in fact on the other hand therefore for this reason indeed on the other hand

en outre also en plus also certes its true that . . cest dire que . . that is to say . . en cela in this contrairement + sthg as opposed to + sthg tant donn que being given that cest pourquoi this is why linverse conversely dune partdautre part on the one hand . .on the other hand aussi (middle of sentence) aussi (at beginning of sentence) Personal opinions: pour moi for me Il me semble que + subj + verb it seems to me Je pense que + subj + verb I think personnellement personally Je crois que + subj + verbI believe mon avis in my opinion pour ma part for me also therefore