Learning Verbs

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After finding the Thinkquest site earlier today, I have been looking at basic verbs. The site lists a few essential verbs. Today i have concentrated on two. Etre and Aimer or 'to be' and 'to like'.

Etre (to be)

je suis
tu es
il est
on est
elle est
nous sommes
vous etes
elles sont
ils sont

Aimer (to like)

j'aime
tu aimes
il aime
elle aime
on aime
nous aimons
vous aimez
elles aimont
ils aiment

They are quite tricky as different verbs can have very different endings. The Thinkquest site although visually unappealing is probably the easiest site I have found so far.

Victoria (ma petite amie) has offered to test me on the essential verbs on Thursday at midday. Hopefully I will do well!

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500!

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Just a quick post while on my lunch today to say thankyou to everyone has visited the site so far. I have had over 500 unique hits so far and by the looks of it a lot of you are coming back again and again. . The blog is also ranked highly on www.blogtopsites.com in the academic section. Feel free to rate me and leave comments on there too! Thanks for all the support so far. Especially Victoria, ma petite amie :-)

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P.S. I am just making a shopping list of food in French for when i go shopping later. It is going quite well so far. I've also added another link on the right hand side. Check it out here.

Basic Food

Cafe au lait. One of the phrases I have learned today. Mmm looks tasty :-)


Salut!

Haven't done as much French this weekend. My dad (mon pere) visited on Saturday (samedi) and I was too tired on Sunday (dimanche). Have just been downloading some more podcasts off Sebastien's French Pod class.

At work, one of my colleagues has decided to buy some French tapes to listen too. Salut michael! ca va?

I was reading on the BBC website and someone recommended buying a magazine of something that interests you and reading through that. This got me thinking and I want to start following a French Football team. Has anyone got any suggestions? I don't mind really though i would prefer a smaller team (not Lyon, Marseille, etc).

I have started learning about some of the names for foods and drinks using the Squizzes site, which despite far too many adverts is quite useful for picking up new words. I have also found the Talk French section of the BBC site, that seems to be clips of a television series.

I'm off to ASDA tommorow night so i can hopefully practice some of my new words there!

Au Revoir!

Day eleven (and ten)

La Goulas, Najac in France. The house I will be staying at for my holiday this summer.

Salut!

Sorry for no update yesterday, I gave myself a night off yesterday. I've been enjoying listening to the French Pod classes on my way to work. I'm even starting to enjoy some of the French songs!

Thanks for people's help and recommendations, I haven't looked through them all yet but I have a couple of day off work now so I can have a proper look through them. I've been reading through the reviews for Michel Thomas on Amazon and it sounds very good, I will perhaps invest in them when I get through the pod classes and the BBC courses.

Mon Pere is visiting tommorow so I'll do another short update tommorow and a big update on Sunday.

Au revoir

P.S. I want to make the site as functional and easy on the eye as possible, has anyone got any suggestions for improving the site? eventually i might get a 'proper' domain name as well, anyone any suggestions for that? Merci