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Topics include pronunciation hints, cognates, numbers, nouns and articles, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions, basic idiomatic expressions, and useful vocabulary words.
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Table of Contents
1 THE SOUNDS OF FRENCH
1.1 Pronunciation Hints
1.2 The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
1.3 The French Alphabet
1.4 Accents
1.5 Liaison
1.6 Elision
1.7 Syllabification
2 COGNATES - WORDS YOU RECOGNIZE
2.1 Cognates Common to Both Languages
2.2 Cognates with Minor Spelling Changes
2.3 Faux Amis (False Friends)
2.4 Some Borrowed Words
2.5 Capitalization
3 BY THE NUMBERS
3.1 Counting from 1 to 1,000,000,000
3.2 Telling Time
3.3 Describing Time
3.4 Days of the Week
3.5 Months
3.6 The Four Seasons (Les Quatre Saisons)
3.7 Expressing the Year
3.8 Phone Numbers
3.9 Expressing Age
3.10 Calculations
3.11 Comparisons
3.12 Ordinal Numbers
Quiz: The Sounds of French - By the Numbers
4 NOUNS AND ARTICLES
4.1 Gender
4.2 Formation of Feminine Nouns
4.3 Plural Nouns
4.4 The Article
4.5 Special Uses of the Definite Article
4.6 The Indefinite Article
5 THE PARTITIVE ARTICLE (LE PARTITIF)
5.1 General Use
5.2 Formation
5.3 Omission of the Definite Article after "de"
5.4 Definite, Indefinite, or Partitive Article
Quiz: Nouns and Articles and the Partitive Article
6 ADJECTIVES
6.1 Function
6.2 Formation of Feminine
6.3 Position of Adjectives
6.4 Comparing with Adjectives
6.5 Possessive Adjectives
6.6 Demonstrative Adjectives ("This," "These")
6.7 Interrogative Adjectives
6.8 Adjectives of Number
6.9 Demi(e): Half
6.10 Indefinite Adjectives
7 PRONOUNS
7.1 Subject Pronouns
7.2 Direct Object Pronouns
7.3 Indirect Object Pronouns
7.4 With Two Verbs Together
7.5 With Two Object Pronouns Together
7.6 Y and en; Penser; Parler de
7.7 Interrogative Sentences with Pronouns
7.8 Disjunctive Pronouns
7.9 Relative Pronouns
7.10 Possessive Pronouns
Quiz: Adjectives and Pronouns
8 VERBS
8.1 L'indicatif
8.2 L'impEratif
8.3 Le Passe Compose
8.4 L'imparfait
8.5 Le Plus-que-parfait
8.6 Le Futur Proche
8.7 Le Futur
8.8 Le Conditionnel
8.9 L'infinitif
8.10 Le Participe Present
8.11 Les Verbes Pronominaux
8.12 Two Other Past Tenses of the Indicative