Introduction:
The French language is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other languages d’oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France’s past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.
It’s never easy to learn a new language, but French isn’t as hard as it seems, although its grammar can be very confusing.
Things to keep in mind
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Alphabets
The French alphabet is based on the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, uppercase, and lowercase, with five diacritics and two orthographic ligatures. The letters ⟨w⟩ and ⟨k⟩ are rarely used except in loanwords and regional words.
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Hardest Thing about French Grammar: Gendered Nouns
The hardest part about French grammar is managing gendered nouns and their agreements. Nouns in French are either feminine or masculine, which you can identify by the article preceding them:
English article Masculine French Article Feminine French Article
The le la
A un une
This is truly the most painstaking thing about French grammar, and it’s something I still get wrong every day, even though I live and work in the language.
Perhaps what’s most frustrating about gendered nouns is that they serve very little purpose
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Conjugation
There are many forms and tenses in French. you won’t need to use them all on a daily basis, but it’s nevertheless confusing. The sequence of tenses is more complex due to the sheer number of French forms and tenses.
There are around 200 common irregular verbs in English, and regular verbs always conjugate in the same way. French has many more irregular verbs, and conjugation can be very difficult to memorize as it can be confusing — although they can sometimes share some similarities with each other.
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Plurals
In English, the rule is easy: adding -s or -es works most of the time, with some rare irregular nouns men, knives, teeth, mice, cacti or some other nouns which don’t have a plural form.
As for collective nouns, it’s rarely a guessing game: a school of fish, a murder of crows, a pride of lions, a convocation of eagles, a pack of dogs, a regiment of flamingos…
The general rule of thumb in French is to add -s at the end of a word to make it plural, however, there are a few exceptions many of them are covered in our lessons, especially the plural form.
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Pronunciation
Pronunciation plays on a fairer ground in French the rules tend to be quite clear and it’s actually much easier than it seems, even with all the silent consonants and the very similar sounds such as “é”, “è” and “ê”.
On the other hand, French is easy if you are interested in learning it by various easy methods or I can say techniques like:
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Join Online Communities
Your learning method will always be specific to you, but you are never totally alone. Although methods may differ, many language learners encounter the same obstacles and find themselves asking the same questions.Join online classes by downloading applications like Multibhashi Multibhashi is a platform to learn languages effectively and effortlessly. Multibhashi offers more than 30 languages.
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Keep it Smile
On the contrary, however, resist the charms of only-in-Arabic oddities you’ll stumble across in the dictionary. Your writing teacher—or anyone else receiving a letter from you—will likely not appreciate your arcane vocabulary. Arabs may be famous for revering poetic expression, but they also appreciate a clear and simple writing style.
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Set Goals
Why are you learning Arabic? The only way to pick key vocabulary from a sea of synonyms is to have a specific achievement in mind. Gossip, read a poem, charm a crush, rock the karaoke mic—pick a mission and work toward it. And then pick another and another …
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Say whatever you can no matter how little.
This applies to any foreign language, of course, but it’s especially true for Arabic, in which all the grammar rules and weird words can easily terrify you into silence. Fortunately, native Arabic speakers are possibly the world’s most enthusiastic supporters of language students. Even a few words will likely earn you praise and encouragement to keep chugging along through the next seven years—or however long it takes.
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Conclusion
While it’s true that French is a hard language to master even for native speakers, the good news is that you don’t necessarily need to master a language to be able to use it on a conversational or a professional basis. Languages are never easy to learn, but some can be easier than others, and French belongs to the easier languages to learn for native English speakers. Practice is key to learning a language faster and better, and you shouldn’t be scared of speaking broken French. Many French speakers will actually find the gender mistakes you make – and your accent – charming!