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Michel Thomas
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Michel Thomas, 19142005

Michel Thomas, the internationally renowned linguist and language teacher, who was awarded the Silver Star by the US Army for his bravery in the Second World War, died of heart failure at his home in New York on 8th January 2005. He was 90.
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Introduction
Anyone can learn a language with Michel Thomas!
The amazing teaching method of the worlds greatest language teacher, Michel Thomas, is now available to everyone, not just the rich and famous. These all-audio courses, published by Hodder Education, provide an accelerated method for language learning that is truly revolutionary. And they promise a remarkable educational experience that will make your learning both exciting and pleasurable. No books, no pens, no homework, no memorizing just sit back and let the most sought-after language teacher in the world be your guide. In a matter of hours, you will find yourself speaking and thinking in your new language quite naturally and effortlessly.
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What is the Michel Thomas method?

Over a period of twenty-five years, Michel Thomas developed and perfected a unique method of teaching languages*. His approach gives startling results within a remarkably short time, all without the need for books, memorizing, or homework. In essence, Michel Thomas breaks a language down to its component parts and enables learners to reconstruct the language themselves to form their own sentences, to say what they want, when they want. The experience of learning a language becomes so exciting and satisfying that it stimulates self-motivation and builds confidence. Michel Thomas presents the language within simple, elegant structures that echo the way the language is spoken. He achieves this by guiding you through carefully planned sets of exercises that build up your understanding of the language almost without you realizing it. You are able to absorb the structures effortlessly and apply them naturally right from the start.
What does the Advanced course contain?

In his specially developed course you hear the voice of Michel Thomas as he leads a class of two students, who have completed the Michel Thomas Foundation (8-hour) course. Their responses to Michel Thomas are not scripted and they have received no additional instruction or preparation just the guidance from Michel Thomas that you hear. You participate in this class actively and learn along with the students. This radically different approach means that you will learn a language in real-time conditions, that is in the same way that the students on the recording learn. There is no need to stop the recording to do homework, additional exercises, or vocabulary memorization. Therefore, unlike other learning methods you may have encountered, you will not be set unrealistic or unachievable goals. The success of the Michel Thomas method is proven by the very results that you hear from the students on the recording and, at the same time, from you as you make your own responses!
*U.S. patent 6,565,358
HOW IS THE ADVANCED COURSE BEST USED?

Relax! Make yourself comfortable before playing the recording and try to let go of the tensions and anxieties traditionally associated with learning. Do not write or take any notes. Remove notebooks, pens, dictionaries and anything else associated with learning at school. Do not try to remember. While participating in the recording and afterwards, it is important that you do not try to memorize specific words or expressions. It is a basic principle of the Michel Thomas method that the responsibility for the students learning lies with the teacher. With Michel Thomas as your teacher, your learning will be based on understanding, and what you understand you dont forget. Interact fully with the recordings. Use the pause button and respond out loud (or in a whisper, or in your head, if you are in a public place) before the students responses. This is essential. You do not learn by repetition but by thinking out the answers to each question; it is by your own thought process that you truly learn. Give yourself time to think. The students on the recordings had all the time they needed to think out their responses. On the recordings their thinking time has been cut in order to make full use of the recording time and to give you all the time you may need (by pushing your pause button). The pause button is the key to your learning! Start at the beginning of the course. Whatever your existing knowledge of the language you are learning, it is important that you follow the way that Michel builds up your knowledge of the language. Do not get annoyed with yourself if you make a mistake. Mistakes are part of the learning process; as long as you understand why you made the mistake and you have the ahaa reaction yes, of course, I understand now you are doing fine. If you made a mistake and you do not understand why, you may have been daydreaming for a few seconds. The course is structured so that you cannot go on unless you fully understand everything, so just go back a little and you will pick up where you left off. Stop the recording whenever it suits you. You will notice that this course is not divided into lessons*; you will always be able to pick up from where you left off, without the need to review.
*Tracking breaks in the recordings reflect the numbering in the index (pages 1151). These breaks are added purely to help you locate where you left off, and do not represent any sort of hierarchy in Michels method.
What level of language will I achieve?

The Advanced course is primarily designed for those who have completed the Michel Thomas Foundation (8-hour) course. It is also appropriate for anyone who has studied a language before, but has forgotten much of it or does not have confidence in speaking. Michel Thomas teaches the everyday conversational language that will allow you to communicate in a wide variety of situations, empowered by the ability to create your own sentences and use the language naturally. You will absorb the vocabulary and grammatical structures and, in addition, will be introduced to elements of writing and reading. The Advanced follow-on to the Michel Thomas Foundation (8-hour) course expands on the tenses and structures only touched upon in the earlier course, to give you a comprehensive understanding and mastery of complex and sophisticated language.
How quickly can I learn with the Advanced course?

One of the most remarkable features of the Michel Thomas method is the speed with which results are achieved. A knowledge of the language that will take months of conventional study can be achieved in a matter of hours with the Advanced course. Michel masterfully guides the student through an instructional process at a very rapid rate yet the process will appear informal, relaxed and unhurried. Michel moves quickly between numerous practice sessions, which all build the learners confidence in their ability to communicate in complex ways. Because the Michel Thomas method is based on understanding, not memorization, there is no set limit to the length of time that you should study the course. It offers immersion without strain or stress, and you will find the recordings are not divided into lessons, though the material has been indexed for your convenience (pages 1151). This means that you can stop and start as you please. The excitement of learning will motivate you to continue listening and learning for as long a time as is practical for you. This will enable you to make progress faster than you ever imagined possible.
Who is the Advanced course for?

Anyone can learn a language with the Michel Thomas method and the wide diversity of his students proves this. Not only does Michel instruct the rich and famous, but he has also taught many so-called hopeless cases. For example, in 1997, Michel taught French to a group of sixteen-year-olds in north London who had been told they could never learn a language, and gave them the ability to use the new language far beyond their expectations in just a week. Perhaps more important, he gave them the confidence to speak and a belief in, and the experience of, their own ability to learn. Whatever your motivation for learning a language, the Michel Thomas course quite simply offers the most effective method that is available.
How do I use the Advanced Review course?

The Review course has been devised for those who want to review, quickly and easily, the entire teaching contents of the Michel Thomas Advanced course. The Review course can be used in many ways: when you have reached the end of the main course to check or consolidate your learning; as a quick refresher when you return to the main course after a lapse of time; or if you are a newcomer to Michel Thomas looking for an overview of what the main courses contain. Michel will give you a prompt in English, there is a pause which allows time for your response in the foreign language, then Michel gives the correct response. If you struggled to give the right answer, or gave an incorrect answer, when working through the Review course, you can use the index (pages 1151) to locate precisely where in the main course the specific language point is taught in depth, and can return to the main course to work through the relevant section again.
What can I do next?

The Michel Thomas Language Builders take the form of a one-to-one lecture with Michel Thomas, building on the words and phrases in his Foundation (8-hour) and Advanced courses. The courses provide confidence in pronunciation, increase your word-power and consolidate your knowledge in just two hours.
The much-anticipated Vocabulary courses carry forward the Michel Thomas teaching tradition and faithfully follow his unique approach to foreign language learning. The series editor is Dr Rose Lee Hayden, Michels most experienced and trusted teacher. The courses remain faithful to the method Michel Thomas uses in his earlier courses, with the all-audio and building-block approach. The presenter builds on Michels foundations to encourage the student at home to tap into the vast resources of vocabulary common to English and the foreign languages taught here. The student takes part in the audio, following prompts by the presenter, as in Michel Thomas original Foundation and Advanced courses. The teaching is all in English, with the addition of two native speakers to give models for perfect pronunciation and to increase the opportunity for practice. See the end of the booklet for details about all these courses. Try to speak with native speakers whenever possible, as this is invaluable for improving your fluency. Magazines and newspapers (especially those which feature interviews) will give you practice in the most current and idiomatic language. Expose yourself to the language whenever you can you will have firm foundations on which to build.
So, who was Michel Thomas?

Michel Thomas was head of the Michel Thomas Language Centers and taught languages for over fifty years, primarily in New York, Beverly Hills, and London. He was a graduate of the Department of Philology at the University of Bordeaux, France, and studied psychology at the Sorbonne (Paris) and at the University of Vienna. However, it was his remarkable life experiences that fuelled his passion for teaching languages. Michel spent most of his childhood in Germany and France. With the rise of Hitler, he began his years of escape and resistance. He spent two brutal years in French concentration and slave labour camps, constantly threatened by deportation to German death camps. He escaped and fought for the French Resistance, surviving capture and interrogation by Klaus Barbie the Butcher of Lyons and torture by the Gestapo.
His mastery of languages enabled him to adopt many identities (the last one being Michel Thomas), and, once France was liberated, allowed him to join the US Army as an intelligence officer. His unit went on to liberate Dachau, where he interrogated the camp executioner and interviewed survivors. As well as recording the horrors of the Holocaust, he was driven by a personal mission to discover the fate of his own family (he later discovered that they Michel in the uniform of an officer in had all perished in Auschwitz). At the end the French Resistance of the war, he masterminded operations to uncover war criminals and infiltrate underground Nazi groups, and was renowned for his ability to extract confessions without ever recourse to violence. In 1944 Michel was nominated for the Silver Star medal for his service to the US Armys 45th Infantry Division in France. The award was finally presented to him in May 2004, sixty years later. Michels wartime experiences, particularly his torture by the Gestapo when he discovered the ability to block out pain, made him aware of the untapped potential of the human mind. However, it was his deeply held conviction that the biggest weapon in maintaining a free society was education that drove him to devote his life to probing the learning process. Michel moved to Los Angeles in 1947, and he set up a language institute in Beverly Hills. Over a period of twenty-five years, he developed a unique and revolutionary learning system that has made him the worlds leading language teacher. Now, for the first time, his method has been made widely available through the publication of these recordings.
For a full account of his fascinating life, read The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas by Christopher Robbins, published by Hodder & Stoughton.
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Who has Michel Thomas taught? People came from all over the world to learn a foreign language with Michel Thomas because his method works. His students, now numbering in the thousands, have included well-known people from the arts and from the corporate, political and academic worlds. For example, he taught French to filmstar Grace Kelly prior to her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Michel with Grace Kelly
Michels list of clients include: Celebrities: Emma Thompson, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Melanie Griffith, Eddie Izzard, Bob Dylan, Jean Marsh, Donald Sutherland, Mrs George Harrison, Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Nastassja Kinski, Carl Reiner, Raquel Welch, Johnny Carson, Julie Andrews, Isabelle Adjani, Candice Bergen, Barbara Hershey, Priscilla Presley, Loretta Swit, Tony Curtis, Diana Ross, Herb Alpert, Angie Dickinson, Lucille Ball, Doris Day, Janet Leigh, Natalie Wood, Jayne Mansfield, Ann-Margaret, Yves Montand, Kim Novak, Otto Preminger, Max von Sydow, Peter Sellers, Franois Truffaut, Sophia Coppola. Diplomats, dignitaries and academics: Former U.S. Ambassador to France, Walter Curley; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Joseph V. Reed; Cardinal John OConnor, Archbishop of New York; Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia; Armand Hammer; Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York; Professor Herbert Morris, Dean of Humanities at UCLA; Warren Keegan, Professor of Business at Pace University in New York; Professor Wesley Posvar, former President of the University of Pittsburgh. Executives from the following corporations: AT&T International, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, Merrill Lynch, New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Boeing Aircraft, General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, Bank of America, Max Factor, Rand Corporation, Bertelsmann Music Group-RCA, Veuve Clicquot Inc., McDonalds Corporation, Rover, British Aerospace.
Index
= features on the Review course = Advanced course only
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 1 1:53 2:04 2:14 2:26 2:37 2:48 3:08 I want it now. I dont want them. Do you want it? Is it that you want it? You want it? Why do you want it now? Why dont you want it now? Je le veux maintenant. Je ne les veux pas. Le voulez-vous? Est-ce que vous le voulez? Vous le voulez? Pourquoi le voulez-vous maintenant? Pourquoi ne le voulez-vous pas maintenant?
Review course Track 2 Review course Track 3
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 2 0:00 0:09 0:47 0:58 1:11 1:21 1:29 1:43 1:46 2:15 2:32 3:09 3:23 3:39 4:44 4:49 4:55 I dont know where it is. I dont know what it is. to explain Can you explain to me what it is? What do you want? What do you want to do? What do you want to say? What do you mean? I dont understand what you mean. Can you explain to me what you mean? Thats not what I mean. It means... What does it mean? I dont understand what it means. I want it. I dont want it. I want some/some of it. Je ne sais pas o cest. Je ne sais pas ce que cest. expliquer Pouvez-vous mexpliquer ce que cest? Quest-ce que vous voulez? Quest-ce que vous voulez faire? Quest-ce que vous voulez dire? Quest-ce que vous voulez dire? Je ne comprends pas ce que vous voulez dire. Pouvez-vous mexpliquer ce que vous voulez dire? Ce nest pas ce que je veux dire. a veut dire... Quest-ce que a veut dire? Je ne comprends pas ce que a veut dire. Je le veux. Je ne le veux pas. Jen veux.
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5:01 5:28
I dont want any. I dont know what it means.
Je nen veux pas. Je ne sais pas ce que a veut dire.
Review course Track 4 Review course Track 5 Review course Track 6
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 3 0:00 0:14 0:25 0:28 0:40 0:42 1:12 1:46 1:52 2:08 2:22 2:30 3:28 There are many people here. Il y a beaucoup de monde ici. the world everybody Nobody knows where it is. Nobody can find it. Everyone wants to see it. I have it. I dont have it. I want them. I dont want them. I dont want anything. le monde tout le monde Personne sait o cest. Personne peut le trouver. Tout le monde veut le voir. Je lai. Je ne lai pas. Je les veux. Je ne les veux pas. Je ne veux rien.
Everybody knows where it is. Tout le monde sait o cest.
en means of it, some of it, any of it.
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 4 0:00 0:09 0:19 0:26 0:55 1:05 1:22 1:26 1:47 I dont understand it. Je ne le comprends pas.
I dont understand anything. / Je ne comprends rien. I understand nothing. never I never understand what he wants. I dont know anything. I never know. I dont know anymore. anymore I dont understand him anymore. jamais Je ne comprends jamais ce quil veut. Je ne sais rien. Je ne sais jamais. Je ne sais plus. plus Je ne le comprends plus.
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 5 0:00 0:11 Im going to see it. Im going there. Je vais le voir. Jy vais.
0:29 0:39 1:04 1:20 1:30 1:35 1:38 1:40 1:44 2:03
I would like to go there.
Je voudrais y aller.
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(But) I cannot go there now. (Mais) je ne peux pas y aller maintenant. Im busy. Im very busy now. I would like to go there. with you with him with her with them Im going to see him tonight and Im going to give him his book. Im going to see her tonight and Im going to give her her book. Im going to tell him. Im going to tell her. Will you tell him? Can you tell her? them / to them Will you tell them? Je suis occup. Je suis trs occup maintenant. Je voudrais y aller. avec vous avec lui avec elle avec eux Je vais le voir ce soir et je vais lui donner son livre. Je vais la voir ce soir et je vais lui donner son livre.
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2:54 3:05 3:27 3:35 3:46 3:56 4:06 4:20
lui means him, to him/her, to her. Je vais lui dire. Je vais lui dire. Voulez-vous lui dire? Pouvez-vous lui dire? leur Voulez-vous leur dire?
Will you give them the book? Voulez-vous leur donner le livre?
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 6 0:05 0:08 the book the pound () le livre la livre
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 7 0:06 0:10 0:21 0:45 their to bring Will you bring them their book? Im going to send him the money. leur apporter Voulez-vous leur apporter leur livre? Je vais lui envoyer largent.
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0:58 1:03 1:16 1:57 2:11 2:34
silver Im going to send her the money. Im going to send them the money. Im going to send the money to him. Im going to send the money to her. Im going to send the money to them.
argent Je vais lui envoyer largent. Je vais leur envoyer largent. Je vais envoyer largent lui. Je vais envoyer largent elle. Je vais envoyer largent eux.
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 8 0:13 0:28 0:36 1:01 1:56 3:02 3:23 3:35 4:46 5:00 5:00 5:24 5:36 5:30 5:51 Im going to send it to him. Im going to send it to her. Im going to send it to you. Je vais le lui envoyer. Je vais le lui envoyer. Je vais vous lenvoyer.
If there are two pronouns together and both start with an l, then le, la and les come before lui and leur. Im going to send them to her. Im going to send them the money. Im going to send them to Paris. Im going to write a letter to them. Im going to send them to them. Will you send it to me? Will you send it to me? not to him not to them Will you send them to us? I cannot tell it to you now because I do not know it. Je vais les lui envoyer. Je vais leur envoyer largent. Je vais les envoyer Paris. Je vais leur crire une lettre. Je vais les leur envoyer. Voulez-vous me lenvoyer? Voulez-vous lenvoyer moi? pas lui pas eux Voulez-vous nous les envoyer? Je ne peux pas vous le dire maintenant parce que je ne le sais pas.
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 9 1:34 1:42 1:44 1:46 1:50 1:53 1:56 1:59 2:02 2:04 2:15 2:19 2:21 2:23 2:24 2:32 2:38 2:43 2:47 3:02 -er verbs to ask to stay -ir verbs -re verbs to sell to wait to understand to take to put -oir verbs to have to know to see to be able the power to have to / must the duty That is your duty. homework avoir savoir voir pouvoir le pouvoir devoir le devoir Cest votre devoir. les devoirs vendre attendre comprendre prendre mettre demander rester
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 10 0:11 0:30 0:51 1:05 1:25 1:59 2:04 2:18 2:26 to speak parler
Verbs can be divided into two boxes: a long box and a short box. vous and nous go in the long box. you speak we speak vous parlez nous parlons
All other forms of the verb (not vous and nous) go in the short box (cut off the r). For parler the short box is parle. I speak I am ready. I am eating je parle Je suis prt. je mange
In French there are no -ing tenses: no am-ing, is-ing or are-ing.
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2:44 3:08 3:13 3:19 3:34
I dont speak. we are staying you are staying How long are you staying? How long are we staying?
Je ne parle pas. nous restons vous restez Combien de temps restez-vous? Combien de temps restons-nous?
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 11 0:04 0:16 0:21 0:34 0:44 0:50 0:56 1:06 Stay! Stay here! Dont stay! Lets stay! Lets stay here! Lets speak French! Speak French with me! Dont speak English now! Restez! Restez ici! Ne restez pas! Restons! Restons ici! Parlons franais! Parlez franais avec moi! Ne parlez pas anglais maintenant!
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 12 0:03 0:07 0:24 0:38 0:57 1:07 1:12 1:19 1:33 1:43 2:05 2:29 2:32 2:37 2:42 2:49 2:51 2:56 Im staying Im not staying. Everybody is staying. Nobody is staying. My friend is staying. It is ready. It is staying. It is not staying. he is staying they are staying different evident It is special. specially normal normally possible je reste Je ne reste pas. Tout le monde reste. Personne reste. Mon ami reste. Cest prt. a reste. a ne reste pas. il reste ils restent diffrent vident Cest spcial. spcialement normal normalement possible
-ent at the end of a verb is silent and means they
3:00 3:04 3:06 3:21 3:29 3:34
possibly certain certainly evidently constant constantly
possiblement certain certainement videmment constant constamment
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 13 0:03 0:11 0:15 0:19 0:27 0:34 0:41 0:55 1:03 1:10 1:24 1:32 1:41 1:51 1:56 2:04 2:17 2:26 2:31 2:32 2:42 2:49 2:54 3:04 to start / to begin we are starting Lets start! commencer nous commenons Commenons!
At what time are we starting? quelle heure commenons-nous? At what time are you starting? quelle heure commencez-vous? Start now! Dont start now; start a little later. I dont understand. Commencez maintenant! Ne commencez pas maintenant; commencez un peu plus tard. Je ne comprends pas.
I dont understand anything. Je ne comprends rien. I dont understand any more. Je ne comprends plus. It is starting now. Everybody is starting. My friend is starting. my friends My friends are starting. My friends are arriving tonight. to leave we are leaving Lets leave! At what time are you leaving? At what time are we leaving? Dont leave! to prepare He is preparing it. a commence maintenant. Tout le monde commence. Mon ami commence. mes amis Mes amis commencent. Mes amis arrivent ce soir. partir nous partons Partons! quelle heure partez-vous? quelle heure partons-nous? Ne partez pas! prparer Il le prpare.
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3:11 3:21 3:36 3:49 4:10 4:20 4:40 4:52 5:05 5:24 5:37 5:50 6:22 6:26 6:34
They are preparing it. He is not accepting it. He doesnt accept the condition. Everybody is ready. My friends are arriving. My friends are leaving. they are leaving They are selling it. they are waiting They are waiting for me. My friends are waiting for me. Wait a moment! Lets wait here. Dont wait! Theyre waiting for you.
Ils le prparent. Il ne laccepte pas. Il naccepte pas la condition. Tout le monde est prt. Mes amis arrivent. Mes amis partent. ils partent Ils le vendent. ils attendent Ils mattendent. Mes amis mattendent. Attendez un moment! Attendons ici. Nattendez pas! Ils vous attendent.
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 14 0:05 1:26 1:32 1:35 1:52 2:13 2:19 2:27 2:35 2:40 2:43 2:51 3:01 3:05 3:08 In the short box, if it is not an -er verb, you dont sound the consonant (except for they). Im waiting he is waiting they are waiting Everybody is leaving. Im leaving theyre leaving to sleep Im sleeping he is sleeping Everybody is sleeping. My friends are sleeping. she is sleeping to serve He is serving the dinner. jattends il attend ils attendent Tout le monde part. je pars ils partent dormir je dors il dort Tout le monde dort. Mes amis dorment. elle dort servir Il sert le dner.
3:19 3:31
They are serving the dinner at seven oclock. One is serving the dinner at seven oclock.
Ils servent le dner sept heures. On sert le dner sept heures.
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 15 0:00 0:33 Use of on We are very comfortable here. We are leaving soon. We are going to leave soon. Nous sommes trs confortables ici. / On est trs confortable ici. / On est trs bien ici. Nous partons bientt. / On part bientt. Nous allons partir bientt. / On va partir bientt.
1:08 1:33
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 16 0:00 0:23 0:41 We are going to start soon. We are starting soon. We can start now. Nous allons commencer bientt. / On va commencer bientt. Nous commenons bientt. / On commence bientt. On peut commencer maintenant. / Nous pouvons commencer maintenant. Nous devons commencer. / On doit commencer.
0:56
We must start.
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 17 0:00 0:13 0:20 0:31 1:00 1:17 to feel I feel it. They feel it. He feels it. I feel (myself) fine. I dont feel well. sentir Je le sens. Ils le sentent. Il le sent. Je me sens bien. Je ne me sens pas bien.
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 18 0:00 0:23 0:30 I feel better. This wine is better than the other. Je me sens mieux. Ce vin est meilleur que lautre.
In English the comparative and superlative of good is better and best. The comparative and superlative of well is also better and best. However, in French better of well is mieux and of good its meilleur. It is the best wine of the house. I feel better now. I feel much better now. to smell It smells good. Cest le meilleur vin de la maison. Je me sens mieux maintenant. Je me sens beaucoup mieux maintenant. sentir a sent bon.
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 19 0:06 0:09 0:13 0:23 he is sleeping one is sleeping they are sleeping il dort on dort ils dorment
In spelling, with -er verbs you drop the r and you are left with the e ending, except for they (-ent). If it is not an -er verb, in spelling you add s for I (self) and t for he/she/it. to do / to make Im doing Im not doing it. Hes doing it. One is doing it. One is not doing it that way. faire je fais Je ne le fais pas. Il le fait. On le fait. On ne le fait pas comme a.
0:48 0:53 1:00 1:06 1:13 1:18
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 20 0:00 0:30 0:45 It is making a big difference that way. It doesnt make much difference. a fait une grande diffrence comme a. a ne fait pas beaucoup de diffrence.
All nouns ending in -ance and -ence take la / une.
1:04 1:10
How much time? I dont have much time.
Combien de temps? Je nai pas beaucoup de temps.
Review course Track 22 Review course Track 23 Review course Track 24 Review course Track 25
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 21 0:00 0:22 0:30 0:38 0:42 0:55 0:57 1:46 1:52 1:59 It is too late. Youre going too fast. It is too much. to work He is working too much. It is taking too much time. It is much too much. It is much too much for me. It is taking much too much time like that. Cest trop tard. Vous allez trop vite. Cest trop. travailler Il travaille trop. a prend trop de temps. Cest beaucoup trop. Cest beaucoup trop pour moi. a prend beaucoup trop de temps comme a.
After expressions of quantity use de (of).
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 22 0:00 0:13 0:35 0:53 1:22 Im taking it. he is taking He doesnt understand me. Je le prends. il prend Il ne me comprend pas.
Everybody is waiting for me. Tout le monde mattend. My friends are waiting for me. Mes amis mattendent.
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 23 0:00 1:36 In spelling -ir verbs in the short box, you drop the consonant that you dont sound. For the endings you have s and t. Dinner is being served. On sert le dner.
Advanced course: CD 1 Track 24 0:16 0:38 0:50 1:06 1:15 Im putting it on the table. He is putting it on the table. Where are you putting it? Put the book on the table. Dont put it here. Je le mets sur la table. Il le met sur la table. O le mettez-vous? Mettez le livre sur la table. Ne le mettez pas ici.
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Advanced course: CD 1 Track 25 0:12 0:21 0:34 0:39 0:45 0:51 1:02 1:16 1:27 1:38 Start now! Dont start! Lets not start! Lets wait! Lets not wait! Lets put the book on the table. on the floor Lets not put it on the floor. Dont put it on the floor. Commencez maintenant! Ne commencez pas! Ne commenons pas! Attendons! Nattendons pas! Mettons le livre sur la table. par terre Ne le mettons pas par terre. Ne le mettez pas par terre.
Whenever you use the positive command (imperative), the pronoun comes after the verb. In all other cases, the pronoun comes before the verb. Put it here. Mettez-le ici.
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 1 0:31 0:42 1:08 1:20 1:33 1:44 1:55 2:05 2:15 2:39 2:53 3:04 3:13 3:32 Dont put it here. Dont put it there. Put them on the table. Im calling you. Youre being called. Call me later. Dont call me today; call me tomorrow. Wait for me. Wait for me here. Will you wait for me? Dont wait for me. Ne le mettez pas ici. Ne le mettez pas l. Mettez-les sur la table. Je vous appelle. On vous appelle. Appellez-moi plus tard. Ne mappellez pas aujourdhui; appellez-moi demain. Attendez-moi. Attendez-moi ici. Voulez-vous mattendre? Ne mattendez pas.
Position of the pronoun with a positive imperative
Dont put them on the floor. Ne les mettez pas par terre.
You can avoid the positive imperative by using will you....
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 2 0:03 1:10 You have to wait for me. One has to wait for me. / One must wait for me. Vous devez mattendre. On doit mattendre.
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 3 0:05 0:11 0:13 0:15 0:33 0:39 1:01 1:08 1:49 1:58 2:02 2:06 2:10 2:17 2:26 Im doing it. I have he has they have Formation of future tense I will leave tomorrow. he will leave they will leave Je partirai demain. il partira ils partiront Je le fait. jai il a ils ont
-ai, -a, -ont hooked onto the infinitive forms the future tense and becomes -rai, -ra, -ront. I will leave he will leave they will leave we will leave you will leave je partirai il partira ils partiront nous partirons vous partirez
I will... and you will... have the same sound (-rai/-rez). we will... and they will... also have the same sound (-rons/-ront). The three sounds, -rai, -ra, -ront, apply to all verbs in the future tense.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 4 0:05 0:16 0:56 1:15 1:36 2:00 2:05 2:12 -oir verbs I will be able I will have to We will have to leave soon. Future of avoir I will have it. We will have it. Future of savoir Je laurai. Nous laurons. je pourrai je devrai Nous devrons partir bientt. / On devra partir bientt.
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I will know I will tell you later. I will write to you. I will do it. He wont do it. He wont tell you why he wont do it. Spelling of fera
je saurai Je vous dirai plus tard. Je vous crirai. Je le ferai. Il ne le fera pas. Il ne vous dira pas pourquoi il ne le fera pas.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 5 0:04 0:14 0:23 0:26 0:28 0:32 0:35 0:47 I will put it here. Je le mettrai ici.
All composite verbs in English that contain mit come from the French mettre. to commit to omit to permit to submit I promise I promise you. commettre omettre permettre soumettre je promets Je vous promets.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 6 0:09 0:22 0:34 0:45 0:51 I will take it. I wont understand him. He will sell it. He is selling it. Theyre selling it. Je le prendrai. Je ne le comprendrai pas. Il le vendra. Il le vend. Ils le vendent.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 7 0:03 0:11 0:35 1:01 1:13 1:19 to come he is coming they are coming It is coming. It is going to come. venir il vient ils viennent a vient. a va venir.
They are coming from Vienna. Ils viennent de Vienne.
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I will come we will come to come back I will come back They will come back soon. We will come back soon. We are going to come back soon.
je viendrai nous viendrons revenir je reviendrai Ils reviendront bientt. Nous reviendrons bientt. Nous allons revenir bientt.
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 8 0:00 0:29 0:37 0:39 0:41 0:44 2:24 2:36 Exception for future tense: tre (to be) I will be he will be they will be we will be you will be They are going to be here soon. They will be here tonight. je serai il sera ils seront nous serons vous serez Ils vont tre ici bientt. Ils vont tre ici ce soir. / Ils seront ici ce soir.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 9 0:00 0:24 0:40 0:57 1:10 1:39 2:07 It will not be possible to do it. a ne sera pas possible de le faire. It wont be necessary to do it today. It will take too much time that way. It will take much too much time. Its a pleasure to see you. / I enjoy seeing you. I am looking forward to seeing you. a ne sera pas ncessaire de le faire aujourdhui. a prendra trop de temps comme a. a prendra beaucoup trop de temps. a me fait plaisir de vous voir.
I enjoy very much seeing you. a me fait grand plaisir de vous voir. a me fera plaisir de vous voir.
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 10 0:00 0:18 0:19 0:20 0:26 0:29 0:32 1:19 1:23 1:26 1:29 1:34 1:41 1:48 Exception for future tense: aller (to go) Im going he is going they are going we are going you are going They are going to come with us. I will go he will go we will go they will go you will go I will go there. We will go there tonight. je vais il va ils vont nous allons vous allez Ils vont venir avec nous. jirai il ira nous irons ils iront vous irez Jy irai. Nous y irons ce soir.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 11 0:00 0:09 0:22 1:02 1:07 1:25 Three ways of using the future: will, going to, the present tense I will call you tomorrow. Im going to call you tomorrow. I call you tomorrow. I call you next week. Je vous appellerai demain. Je vais vous appeler demain. Je vous appelle demain. Je vous appelle la semaine prochaine.
The present tense is often used in French to signify the future.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 12 0:00 0:22 0:30 0:42 0:51 1:06 1:14 Exceptions for we in the present tense Exceptions for you in the present tense you are you are doing/making you are saying/telling What are you doing? What are you saying? vous tes vous faites vous dites Quest-ce que vous faites? Quest-ce que vous dites?
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I dont understand what you are saying. Tell me! Dont tell me; I dont want to know it! Dont tell it to me. Dont tell it to him. Dont tell it to her.
Je ne comprends pas ce que vous dites. Dites-moi! Ne me dites pas; je ne veux pas le savoir! Ne me le dites pas. Ne le lui dites pas. Ne le lui dites pas.
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 13 0:00 1:15 1:32 1:48 The key to the short box is the sound of the first person (I). Theres a difference in spelling, but the sound is the same. Everything must be ready today. we know Tout doit tre prt aujourdhui.
The key to the long box is the infinitive. nous savons
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 14 0:00 0:10 0:15 1:15 1:23 1:28 1:33 1:37 1:45 1:52 2:07 2:29 2:37 Verbs that contain prendre lose the d in the present tense. to learn to take back we understand you understand Do you understand? Do you understand it? Do you understand me? We are taking it. Why dont you take it? they are taking They are taking it. They dont understand it. apprendre reprendre nous comprenons vous comprenez Comprenez-vous? Le comprenez-vous? Est-ce que vous me comprenez? Nous le prenons. Pourquoi ne le prenez-vous pas? ils prennent Ils le prennent. Ils ne le comprennent pas.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 15 0:00 0:45 The verbs to have, to be and to go in the present tense. we have nous avons
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you have he is they are Where are they? They are not there. They are not in. He isnt in.
vous avez il est ils sont O sont-ils? Ils ne sont pas l. Ils ne sont pas l. Il nest pas l.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 16 0:00 0:28 0:41 0:46 Exceptions for they in the present tense they are doing They are doing it. They are not doing it. ils font Ils le font. Ils ne le font pas.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 17 0:00 For the past tense use have. If you want to say I bought it., you will say I have bought it.. Did you buy it? = Have you bought it? / I saw it. = I have seen it. / He didnt understand. = He has not understood. In French you dive into the past: have is the diving board. With -er verbs you dive into , which has the same sound as the infinitive. 1:54 2:36 2:41 2:57 3:16 3:23 3:32 3:43 3:51 I spoke he spoke Did you speak? We didnt speak with him. When did you speak with him? Did you buy something? What did you buy? He prepared the dinner. The picture started. jai parl il a parl Avez-vous parl? Nous navons pas parl avec lui. Quand avez-vous parl avec lui? Avez-vous achet quelque chose? Quest-ce que vous avez achet? Il a prpar le dner. Le film a commenc.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 18 0:00 0:10 already still / still more dj encore
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I would like another cup of coffee. a little more not yet We have not yet started.
Je voudrais encore une tasse de caf. encore un peu pas encore Nous navons pas commenc encore. / Nous navons pas encore commenc. Le film a dj commenc. / Le film a commenc dj. il y a dix minutes il y a deux jours
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The picture started already. ten minutes ago two days ago
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 19 0:00 0:06 0:08 0:12 0:17 0:24 0:40 0:54 1:08 1:19 1:33 1:47 2:12 2:28 2:39 2:56 3:14 3:31 3:46 4:00 4:14 I have it. I dont have it. I have them. I dont have them. I have some. I dont have any. I bought it. I didnt buy it. I bought them. I did not buy them. I bought some for you. I didnt buy any because I didnt find any. How many did you buy (of it) of them? Where did you buy them? to forget At what time did you call? She called me this morning. Why did you call me? Why didnt you call me? Je lai. Je ne lai pas. Je les ai. Je ne les ai pas. Jen ai. Je nen ai pas. Je lai achet. Je ne lai pas achet. Je les ai achets. Je ne les ai pas achets. Jen ai achet pour vous. Je nen ai pas achet parce que je nen ai pas trouv. Combien en avez-vous achet? O les avez-vous achets? oublier quelle heure avez-vous appel? Elle ma appel ce matin. Pourquoi mavez-vous appel? Pourquoi ne mavez-vous pas appel?
I forgot where I bought them. Jai oubli o je les ai achets. At what time did you call me? quelle heure mavez-vous appel?
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I called them. I called him. I called her. I called you. I didnt call you. to ask I asked you. I didnt ask you. Why did you ask me? Why didnt you ask me?
Je les ai appels. Je lai appel. Je lai appele. Je vous ai appel. Je ne vous ai pas appel. demander Je vous ai demand. Je ne vous ai pas demand. Pourquoi mavez-vous demand? Pourquoi ne mavez-vous pas demand?
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 20 0:00 0:16 0:24 0:31 0:42 0:56 1:04 1:19 1:28 1:44 2:09 2:22 2:37 2:42 2:45 2:54 3:04 With -re verbs when you dive, you drop the re and replace it with u. sold I sold it. Why did you sell it? Why didnt you sell them? He sold them. We sold some. I waited. I waited for you. You didnt wait for me. vendu Je lai vendu. Pourquoi lavez-vous vendu? Pourquoi ne les avez-vous pas vendus? Il les a vendus. Nous en avons vendu. Jai attendu. Je vous ai attendu. Vous ne mavez pas attendu.
Why didnt you wait for me? Pourquoi ne mavez-vous pas attendu? With -ir verbs when you dive, you drop the r. We finished. At what time did you finish? He slept. We slept well. He slept very badly. Nous avons fini. quelle heure avez-vous fini? Il a dormi. Nous avons bien dormi. Il a mal dormi.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 21 0:00 0:40 There are two diving towers: to have and to be. Dinner is prepared. Le dner est prpar.
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He sold it. Everything is sold. Nothing is sold yet. One served the dinner. Dinner is served.
Il la vendu. Tout est vendu. Rien est vendu encore. On a servi le dner. Le dner est servi.
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 22 0:00 0:16 0:27 0:40 0:50 0:55 Verbs that dont follow the pattern for diving into the past understood Service is included. Service is not included. Did you understand? Did you understand it? compris Le service est compris. Le service nest pas compris. Avez-vous compris? Lavez-vous compris? / Est-ce que vous lavez compris? / Vous lavez compris? Mavez-vous compris?
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Did you understand me?
Why did you not understand Pourquoi ne mavez-vous pas me? compris? I understood you. I understood you well. I understood you very well. I took them. I took some of it. Why did you take them? Why didnt you take them? I learnt. I learnt something today. I found out. Je vous ai compris. Je vous ai bien compris. Je vous ai trs bien compris. Je les ai pris. Jen ai pris. Pourquoi les avez-vous pris? Pourquoi ne les avez-vous pas pris? Jai appris. Jai appris quelque chose aujourdhui. Jai appris.
When you dive into the past, prendre becomes pris.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 23 0:14 0:18 0:27 0:36 When you dive into the past, mettre becomes mis. Where did you put it? Where did you put them? I forgot where I put them. O lavez-vous mis? O les avez-vous mis? Jai oubli o je les ai mis.
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to admit I promised you. No, I did not promise you. You promised me. I promised him. It is promised.
admettre Je vous ai promis. Non, je ne vous ai pas promis. Vous mavez promis. Je lui ai promis. Cest promis.
When you dive into the past, promettre becomes promis.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 24 0:00 1:14 1:27 1:29 1:36 1:39 1:42 2:14 2:23 2:30 2:55 3:06 3:12 3:21 3:28 3:38 3:52 4:01 4:18 4:29 4:45 4:49 5:01 The diving part of faire, dire and crire is fait, dit and crit the same as the present tense. He did it. the fact object object of art subject I didnt do it. Why did you do it? Why didnt you do it? He didnt do it. He told me. I told you. I didnt tell you. You told me. Why didnt you tell me? I wrote to you. Why didnt you call me? It is written. I was told. I called you this morning. Why didnt you buy them? Il la fait. le fait objet objet dart sujet Je ne lai pas fait. Pourquoi lavez-vous fait? Pourquoi ne lavez-vous pas fait? Il ne la pas fait. Il ma dit. Je vous ai dit. Je ne vous ai pas dit. Vous mavez dit. Pourquoi ne mavez-vous pas dit? Je vous ai crit. Pourquoi ne mavez-vous pas appel? Cest crit. On ma dit. Je vous ai appel ce matin. Pourquoi ne les avez-vous pas achet?
Usually words ending in -ct in English come from French.
Why didnt you write to me? Pourquoi ne mavez-vous pas crit?
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 25 0:00 0:20 0:40 0:47 1:14 1:37 1:43 1:45 1:50 1:56 2:01 2:23 2:20 2:50 3:08 3:29 I was I had I was very busy. He was here. they were Who was there? Nobody was there? I was there. I was very busy. It was ready. I was there but it wasnt ready yet. last night Who was there with you last night? I was there but nobody was there. we were you were jtais javais Jtais trs occup. Il tait ici. ils taient Qui tait l? Personne tait l. Jtais l. Jtais trs occup. Ctait prt. Jtais l mais ce ntait pas prt encore. hier soir Qui tait l avec vous hier soir? Jtais l mais personne tait l. nous tions vous tiez
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 26 0:00 0:28 0:31 0:45 0:58 1:11 Whenever you have -ais in the short box, in the long box you will have -ions and -aient. he had they had we had you had We had a plane. il avait ils avaient nous avions vous aviez Nous avions un avion.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 27 0:11 0:18 0:33 Everything was sold. Everything will be sold. Tout tait vendu. Tout sera vendu.
After all forms of to be or to have, you have to dive.
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Advanced course: CD 2 Track 28 0:20 0:26 0:36 0:41 1:04 1:10 he would like they would like My friends would like to go there. we would like you would like il voudrait ils voudraient Mes amis voudraient y aller. nous voudrions vous voudriez
Everybody would like to see it. Tout le monde voudrait le voir.
Advanced course: CD 2 Track 29 0:00 The endings -rais, -rait, -raient, -riez express would. Review course Track 55 Review course Track 56 vu Je lai vu. si je lavais vu
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 1 0:00 0:22 1:09 1:13 1:16 1:19 1:23 1:55 2:01 2:08 2:11 2:14 2:17 2:23 2:31 Use the same contractions for would as for will. I will have he will have they will have we will have you will have I would have he would have they would have we would have you would have I would have it. We would have it. We would have them. jaurai il aura ils auront nous aurons vous aurez jaurais il aurait ils auraient nous aurions vous auriez Je laurais. Nous laurions. Nous les aurions.
We would have bought them. Nous les aurions achets.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 2 0:00 0:19 0:28 0:32 For -oir verbs dive into u. seen I saw it. if I had seen it
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If I had seen it, I would have bought it. If I had known it, I would have told you. If you had told me, I would have seen it and I would have bought it.
Si je lavais vu, je laurais achet.
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When you dive, savoir becomes su. Si je lavais su, je vous aurais dit. Si vous maviez dit, je laurais vu et je laurais achet.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 3 0:12 0:34 0:45 0:51 1:36 1:46 2:05 2:13 2:51 He wouldnt have waited. You wouldnt wait. We wouldnt wait. He would sell it. He would have sold it. I did it. I didnt do it. You didnt tell me. Il naurait pas attendu. Vous nattendriez pas. Nous nattendrions pas. Il le vendrait. Il laurait vendu. Je lai fait. Je ne lai pas fait. Vous ne mavez pas dit.
Difference between would (-ait) and would have (aurait)
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 4 0:00 0:37 0:43 1:01 1:17 1:26 was, had and would have He was not here. Who was there last night? I was there with my friend but you were not there. Where were you last night? I was very busy and I didnt have the time to do it. Il ntait pas ici. Qui tait l hier soir? Jtais l avec mon ami mais vous ntiez pas l. O tiez-vous hier soir? Jtais trs occup et je navais pas le temps de le faire.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 5 0:10 0:23 0:46 0:56 I have had. Jai eu.
The diving part of avoir = eu; savoir = su; pouvoir = pu; devoir = d; voir = vu. Difference between pronunciation of vous and vu Did you see? Avez-vous vu?
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Did you see it? Where did you see me? I was there last night but I didnt see you. Where were you? I didnt see you.
Lavez-vous vu? O mavez-vous vu? Jtais l hier soir mais je ne vous ai pas vu. O tiez-vous? Je ne vous ai pas vu.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 6 0:11 1:18 Diving board levels: I saw it (I have seen it) / I had seen it / I would have seen it I would have told you why I didnt buy it. Je vous aurais dit pourquoi je ne lai pas achet.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 7 0:15 0:38 0:54 He wouldnt have done it. He wouldnt do it. If you had told it to me, I would have known it. Il ne laurait pas fait. Il ne le ferait pas. Si vous me laviez dit, je laurais su.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 8 0:00 0:55 1:12 1:42 1:48 1:52 1:57 2:30 3:20 3:49 4:38 4:47 There are some verbs where you dont dive from the low diving board (examples: was and had). if I had had been in summer summer fashion summer dress If I had been there, I would have seen it. si javais eu t en t mode dt robe dt Si javais t l, je laurais vu.
You would have seen it if Vous lauriez vu si vous aviez you had been there last night. t la hier soir. Whenever you have two or three consecutive verbs, the second and third are always the infinitive. I could they could Nobody could wait. je pouvais ils pouvaient Personne pouvait attendre.
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we could you could
nous pouvions vous pouviez
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Advanced course: CD 3 Track 9 0:12 0:31 0:42 0:55 1:10 I had to He had to wait. One had to wait. We had to wait. I wanted je devais Il devait attendre. On devait attendre. Nous devions attendre. je voulais
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 10 0:10 Its important to have a sharpened awareness of your own language in order to express yourself clearly in another. For example, the distinction between have and have to. I have to do it. They had to wait. You have to wait. Je dois le faire. Ils devaient attendre. Vous devez attendre.
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You dont have to wait does not mean you mustnt wait but you dont need to wait. to have need You dont have to wait. / You dont need to wait. You dont have to give it to him. You dont have to give it to me. avoir besoin Vous navez pas besoin dattendre. Vous navez pas besoin de le lui donner. Vous navez pas besoin de me le donner.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 11 0:00 0:24 1:17 1:22 will does not always express the future tense. Sometimes it means will you/will you, please (a polite request). Will you tell me? When will you tell me? When are you going to tell me? Voulez-vous me dire? Quand me direz-vous? Quand allez-vous me dire?
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Advanced course: CD 3 Track 12 0:00 0:11 0:19 0:25 0:33 0:40 0:50 1:09 1:23 1:39 1:45 Verbs that use -ais (handles) instead of diving: was / had / could / had to / wanted / knew was had could had to wanted I didnt want to do it. He didnt want to tell me. I knew I didnt know. Nobody knew where it was; nobody could find it. tais; tiez; tions avez; aviez; avions pouvais; pouviez; pouvions devais; devions; deviez voulais; voulions; vouliez Je ne voulais pas le faire. Il ne voulait pas me dire. je savais Je ne savais pas. Personne savait o ctait; personne pouvait le trouver.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 13 0:07 0:25 1:15 1:30 1:50 I knew where it was. If I had known where it was, I would have told it to you. I wanted to buy it. If I had wanted to have it, I would have bought it. Je savais o ctait. Si javais su o ctait, je vous laurais dit. Je voulais lacheter. Si javais voulu lavoir, je laurais achet.
When you dive into the past, vouloir becomes voulu.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 14 0:00 1:04 1:18 1:23 1:35 2:58 3:00 to go as a handle (Im going to do it) I was going I was going to do it. I wasnt going to tell you. I didnt know you were going to come today. this afternoon You didnt tell me that you were going to be here this afternoon. jallais Jallais le faire. Je nallais pas vous dire. Je ne savais pas que vous alliez venir aujourdhui. cet aprs-midi Vous ne mavez pas dit que vous alliez tre ici cet aprs-midi.
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We were going to leave today. Nous allions partir aujourdhui.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 15 0:00 If you had called me and if you had told me that you were going to arrive today, I would have waited for you and we would have had dinner. Si vous maviez appel et si vous maviez dit que vous alliez arriver aujourdhui, je vous aurais attendu et nous aurions dn.
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Advanced course: CD 3 Track 16 0:15 0:29 0:33 0:38 0:42 1:26 2:12 2:19 2:27 2:32 2:37 I am going to do it. We are going to do it. We were going to do it. You are going to do it. You were going to do it. Je vais le faire. Nous allons le faire. Nous allions le faire. Vous allez le faire. Vous alliez le faire.
Distinction between I am going to do it and I was going to do it (present -ing and past w-ing) He is going to do it. He wasnt going to do it. We are going to leave. We were going to leave. You didnt tell me that you were going to arrive today. Il va le faire. Il nallait pas le faire. Nous allons partir. Nous allions partir. Vous ne mavez pas dit que vous alliez arriver aujourdhui.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 17 0:00 0:57 1:01 1:07 1:15 1:20 1:35 1:43 1:45 1:49 2:08 w-ing tense for any verb I was staying We were staying here. He is waiting for me. He was waiting for me. We were waiting for you. We are waiting for you. he is leaving he was leaving we were leaving je restais Nous restions ici. Il mattend. Il mattendait. Nous vous attendions. Nous vous attendons. il part il partait nous partions
The w-ing tense expresses a straight line in the past.
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I was doing it. I was saying/telling it. to read I was reading to write I was writing
Je le faisais. Je le disais. lire je lisais crire jcrivais
The straight line for the w-ing tense can also be a broken line to suggest I used to do or I did it repeatedly. I did it every day. often frequently He used to prepare it. Je le faisais tous les jours. souvent frquemment Il la prparait.
He prepared it this morning. Il la prpar ce matin.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 18 0:50 Eighty percent of verbs end in -er; any new verbs in the French language will end in -er. There will never be any new verbs added to -re or -oir verbs.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 19 0:00 1:06 1:29 1:47 1:53 2:09 2:15 2:22 The -ir verbs can be divided into two branches. Verbs with ss in the plural are live: new verbs can be added to this branch. he would go the end I finish he is finishing we finish you finish they finish il irait la fin je finis il finit nous finissons vous finissez ils finissent
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 20 0:00 0:26 0:30 0:37 0:55 Verbs ending in -ir that have been hooked onto adjectives to grow The child is growing. The children are growing. to blush grandir Lenfant grandit. Les enfants grandissent. rougir
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you are blushing to (turn) pale you are getting pale to grow old he is growing old they are growing old to rejuvenate
vous rougissez plir vous plissez vieillir il vieillit ils vieillissent rajeunir
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Advanced course: CD 3 Track 21 0:00 0:07 0:24 0:58 1:53 2:01 to land the land / the earth We are landing in a few minutes. to land on the sea to land on the moon They are landing on the moon. atterrir la terre Nous atterrissons dans quelques minutes. amerrir alunir Ils alunissent.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 22 0:00 0:11 0:20 0:24 0:27 0:29 1:12 1:59 2:33 2:42 2:58 3:02 3:21 3:26 3:43 Verbs ending in -vrir or -frir to open to offer to cover to discover to suffer ouvrir offrir couvrir dcouvrir souffrir
This family of verbs (-vrir/-frir) is used like -er verbs but the past participle is different. opened I opened it. It is opened. / It is open. covered Everything is covered. discovered He discovered it. offered ouvert Je lai ouvert. Cest ouvert. couvert Tout est couvert. dcouvert Il la dcouvert. offert
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I offered it. I offered it to you. I offered it to him.
Je lai offert. Je vous lai offert. Je le lui ai offert.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 23 0:00 There are two forms of you: tu is a familiar form for use with family and friends. It goes in the short box, so it follows the sound of I, except for to have, to be and to go. you have you are going you are As an object, tu becomes te. What are you saying? Im telling you. When to use tu Quest-ce que tu dis? Je te dis. tu as tu vas tu es
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Whenever you want to say I have been doing it for ..., use the present tense with depuis. since I have been doing it for a long time. How long have you been working here? it makes He has been working here for a long time. depuis Je le fais depuis longtemps. a fait combien de temps que vous travaillez ici? a fait Il travaille ici depuis longtemps.
Advanced course: CD 3 Track 25 0:00 If you had been here last night, you would have seen it and you would have bought it. Everything is sold. Everything was sold. Si vous aviez t ici hier soir, vous lauriez vu et vous lauriez achet. Tout est vendu. Tout tait vendu.
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Everything will be sold. Everything would be sold. Everything would have been sold.
Tout sera vendu. Tout serait vendu. Tout aurait t vendu.
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Advanced course: CD 3 Track 26 0:18 There are three master keys that open the door to all tenses: -ing key Review course Track 79 Review course Track 80
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 1 0:00 0:51 1:04 1:07 1:10 2:34 3:43 3:46 4:02 5:24 Use of the -ing without a tense: in French use the infinitive without without knowing Seeing is believing. to forgive / to pardon Understanding everything is forgiving everything. I dont agree with it. Leaving is dying a little. discouraged sans sans savoir Voir cest croire. pardonner Tout comprendre cest tout pardonner. Je ne suis pas daccord. Partir cest mourir un peu. dcourag He left without saying a word. Il est parti sans dire un mot.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 2 0:00 1:05 1:11 1:24 1:33 1:46 1:54 2:02 2:22 2:31 2:41 The three master keys: 1. -ing key; 2. r key for will and would; 3. two diving towers (have/to be) He is selling the house. He was selling the house. He sold the house. He has been selling the house for a long time. The house is sold. The house was sold. The house has been sold. He will sell the house. The house will be sold. Il vend la maison. Il vendait la maison. Il a vendu la maison. Il vend la maison depuis longtemps. La maison est vendue. La maison tait vendue. La maison a t vendue. Il vendra la maison. La maison sera vendue.
He is going to sell the house. Il va vendre la maison.
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The house is going to be sold. La maison va tre vendue. He would sell the house. The house would be sold. if I had sold the house if the house had been sold He would have sold the house. The house would have been sold. The house will have been sold. Il vendrait la maison. La maison serait vendue. si javais vendu la maison si la maison avait t vendue Il aurait vendu la maison. La maison aurait t vendue.
He will have sold the house. Il aura vendu la maison. La maison aura t vendue.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 3 0:00 1:05 1:14 We would be very busy. We would be ready. We would have been ready. Nous serions trs occups. Nous serions prts. Nous aurions t prts.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 4 0:00 1:59 2:04 2:10 2:15 2:20 2:28 2:45 3:27 3:43 3:50 3:57 4:12 4:17 Sometimes you dive from the to be tower instead of to have, especially with verbs of coming and going. I went to see it last night. we went he went they went you went Where did you go? I didnt go. He came with us. He came back. We came back. At what time did you come back? They came back. He didnt come back yet. Je suis all le voir hier soir. nous sommes alls il est all ils sont alls vous tes all O tes-vous all? Je ne suis pas all. Il est venu avec nous. Il est revenu. Nous sommes revenus. quelle heure tes-vous revenu? Ils sont revenus. Il nest pas encore revenu.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 5 0:00 0:09 0:14 0:19 0:28 0:47 1:13 1:17 1:21 1:25 1:30 1:39 1:49 2:10 2:21 2:29 2:50 2:55 3:14 3:37 3:43 3:48 3:57 4:08 4:21 4:41 5:00 5:21 5:33 5:46 going group of verbs: aller, sortir, partir to go to go out to leave We went out last night. He left a few minutes ago. to come back to return to arrive We arrived. At what time did you arrive? He didnt arrive yet. aller sortir partir Nous sommes sortis hier soir. Il est parti il y a quelques minutes. revenir retourner arriver Nous sommes arrivs. quelle heure tes-vous arriv? Il nest pas arriv encore. / Il nest pas encore arriv. entrer Il est entr. rentrer quelle heure tes-vous rentr hier soir? Il nest pas encore rentr. / Il nest pas rentr encore. monter Je suis mont. Nous sommes monts. Ils sont monts. Je suis descendu. Il est descendu. Je suis rest. Combien de temps tes-vous rest? Nous ne sommes pas rests longtemps. Nous sommes partis tout de suite aprs le dner.
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coming group of verbs: venir, revenir, retourner, arriver
going and coming verbs: entrer, rentrer, monter, descendre to enter He came in. to re-enter (home) At what time did you come home last night? He didnt come home yet. to go up / to come up I went up. We went up. They came up. I went down. He came down. I stayed. How long did you stay? We didnt stay long. We left right after dinner.
to come down / to go down descendre
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We went to the cinema. We came home very late.
Nous sommes alls au cinma. Nous sommes rentrs trs tard.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 6 0:11 monter is used for every movement up (bring up, carry up, etc.) but if you use it in any sense other than going and coming, it takes avoir. The bellboy went up and he took up/brought up/ carried up my suitcase. He went down (he came down) and he brought down (took down/carried down) my suitcase. Le garon est mont et il a mont ma valise.
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Advanced course: CD 4 Track 7 0:00 0:14 0:26 0:35 0:43 1:00 1:05 1:11 1:15 1:19 1:23 1:29 1:57 2:37 3:08 3:19 3:27 3:41 to lift up Im lifting it up. Im getting up. We are getting up. You are getting up. He is getting up. They are getting up. She is getting up. Everybody is getting up. Nobody is getting up. It is getting up. You are getting up. (the tu form) heavy I cannot lift it up because it is too heavy. Will you lift it up? Can you lift it up? Lift it up! lever Je le lve. Je me lve Nous nous levons. Vous vous levez. Il se lve. Ils se lvent. Elle se lve. Tout le monde se lve. Personne se lve. a se lve. Tu te lves. lourd Je ne peux pas le lever parce que cest trop lourd. Voulez-vous le levez? Pouvez-vous le levez? Levez-le!
Dont lift it up. It is very heavy. Ne le levez pas. Cest trs lourd.
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Get up (please)! Dont get up. Im going to get up soon. Were going to get up soon. One is going to get up. (We are going to get up.)
Levez-vous! Ne vous levez-pas. Je vais me lever bientt. Nous allons nous lever bientt. On va se lever.
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Advanced course: CD 4 Track 8 0:00 0:12 0:38 1:02 1:19 1:34 to hurry Im hurrying. I am in a hurry. I am hurrying because I am in a hurry. We are hurrying because we are in a hurry. Hurry up because we are in a hurry. se dpcher Je me dpche. Je suis press. Je me dpche parce que je suis press. Nous nous dpchons parce que nous sommes presss. Dpchez-vous parce quon est press.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 9 0:08 0:15 0:28 0:41 0:50 0:58 1:21 1:31 1:57 2:18 2:33 3:04 3:14 3:18 3:24 3:43 Im asking you. I was asking you. I asked you. to call back Will you call me back? I call you back later. I call you back tomorrow. I will call you back. I remember. I dont remember. I ask myself. I wonder. I wonder why. I was wondering why. I asked you. Je vous demande. Je vous demandais. Je vous ai demand rappeler Voulez-vous me rappeler? Je vous rappelle plus tard. Je vous rappelle demain. Je vous rappellerai. Je me rappelle. Je ne me rappelle pas. Je me demande. Je me demande. Je me demande pourquoi. Je me demandais pourquoi. Je vous ai demand.
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Advanced course: CD 4 Track 10 0:00 0:51 1:07 1:47 1:52 2:16 2:48 2:56 3:05 3:13 3:33 Reflexive verbs always dive from the tre tower. I lifted it up. I got up. (I lifted myself up.) I tell myself. I told you. I said to myself. Im hurrying. I was hurrying. I hurried. We hurried. I asked myself why. Je lai lev. Je me suis lev. Je me dis. Je vous ai dit. Je me suis dit. Je me dpche. Je me dpchais. Je me suis dpch. Nous nous sommes dpch. Je me suis demand pourquoi.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 11 0:06 3:23 The subjunctive (it is absolutely necessary that you be here) expresses an element of doubt or uncertainty. It is necessary that... Cest (il est) ncessaire que... / Il faut que...
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 12 0:06 0:19 0:32 0:37 0:53 1:11 2:16 2:35 2:46 3:00 I must ask you. I must speak French. It is necessary that I stay. It is necessary that we stay. You must stay. You must start. We must stay here. I must stay. Il faut que je vous demande. Il faut que je parle franais. Il faut que je reste ici. Il faut que nous restions. Il faut que vous restiez. Il faut que vous commenciez. Il faut que nous restions ici. Il faut que je reste.
Present subjunctive of -er verbs: in the long box use the w-ing part.
It is necessary that we leave. Il faut que nous partions.
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Im leaving It is necessary that I leave. I must wait.
je pars Il faut que je parte. Il faut que jattende.
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The key to the subjunctive for verbs that dont end in -er is the form for they. I must finish. We must finish. You must finish. It is necessary that you put it on the table. He must put it here. I must tell you. I must read it. I must write to you. You must write to me. Il faut que je finisse. Il faut que nous finissions. Il faut que vous finissiez. Il faut que vous le mettiez sur la table. Il faut quil le mette ici. Il faut je vous dise. Il faut que je le lise. Il faut que je vous crive. Il faut que vous mcriviez.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 14 0:56 1:14 1:43 1:57 2:14 2:46 2:53 3:26 3:39 4:07 4:17 I want you to stay here. What do you want me to tell you? I would like you to tell me. I want you to read it. I want you to write to me. Do you want me to come with you? At what time do you want me to leave? Where do you want me to put it? they take Do you want me to take it? Je veux que vous restiez ici. Quest-ce que vous voulez que je vous dise? Je voudrais que vous me disiez. Je veux que vous le lisiez. Je veux que vous mcriviez. Voulez-vous que je vienne avec vous? quelle heure voulez-vous que je parte? O voulez-vous que je le mette? ils prennent Voulez-vous que je le prenne?
They are coming from Vienna. Ils viennent de Vienne.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 15 0:00 There are four one-syllable exceptions where the form for they is not the key to the subjunctive: ont, sont, font, vont
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At what time do you want me to be here tonight?
quelle heure voulez-vous que je sois ici?
I would like you to be ready. Je voudrais que vous soyez prt/ prte. Subjunctive of to be Subjunctive of to have Subjunctive of to go Do you want me to go there with you? At what time do you want me to go there? I would like you to go there with me. Voulez-vous que jy aille avec vous? quelle heure voulez-vous que jy aille? Je veux que vous y alliez avec moi.
Subjunctive of to do / to make What do you want me to do? Quest-ce que vous voulez que je fasse? What do you want me to tell you? Why dont you want me to do it? What do you want me to tell him? I dont want you to do it. Quest-ce que vous voulez que je vous dise? Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas que je le fasse? Quest-ce que vous voulez que je lui dise? Je ne veux pas que vous le fassiez.
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 16 0:00 0:48 1:01 1:11 1:26 1:57 2:18 2:48 Subjunctive: another exception is to know (que je sache) I must know it. We must know it. I would like you to know it. May I see it? Its important that he may see it. I hope that he may be able to... Il faut que je le sache. Il faut que nous le sachions. Je voudrais que vous le sachiez. Puis-je le voir? Cest important quil puisse le voir. Jespre quil puisse
Subjunctive: another exception is can (que je puisse)
Advanced course: CD 4 Track 17 0:00 0:32 0:45 0:53 1:31 1:42 1:54 2:04 Past subjunctive before I do it before I tell you before I leave I left. before I left before we start before we started avant que je le fasse avant que je vous dise avant que je parte Je suis parti. avant que je sois parti avant que nous commencions avant que nous ayons commenc
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I dont want any. I dont know what it means.

Je nen veux pas. Je ne sais pas ce que a veut dire.

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Everybody knows where it is. Tout le monde sait o cest.

en means of it, some of it, any of it.

I would like to go there.

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In French there are no -ing tenses: no am-ing, is-ing or are-ing.

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-ent at the end of a verb is silent and means they

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possibly certain certainly evidently constant constantly

possiblement certain certainement videmment constant constamment

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Ils servent le dner sept heures. On sert le dner sept heures.

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All nouns ending in -ance and -ence take la / une.

How much time? I dont have much time.

Combien de temps? Je nai pas beaucoup de temps.

After expressions of quantity use de (of).

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Position of the pronoun with a positive imperative

You can avoid the positive imperative by using will you....

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They are coming from Vienna. Ils viennent de Vienne.

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