1. Alphabet & Pronunciation
1.1. Vowels
1.2. Consonants
1.3. Silent Final Consonants
1.4. Liaison
1.5. Syllable Stress
2. Similarities to English
2.1. Negation
2.2. Punctuation & Written Accents
3. Gender & Plural
4. Cardinal Numbers
5. Subject Personal Pronouns
6. Present Indicative Tense I
7. The Articles
8. Interrogative Pronouns & Adjectives
1. Prepositions
2. Present Indicative Tense II – Irregular Verbs
3. Possessive Adjectives & Pronouns
4. Demonstrative Pronouns & Adjectives
5. Object Personal Pronouns
6. Relative Pronouns
7. Ordinal Numbers I
8. Basic Phrases
9. Times & Seasons
1. Compound Past
2. The Verb “To Know”
3. Indefinite Adjectives & Pronouns
4. Conjunctions
5. Simple Future Tense
6. Telling Time & Describing Weather
7. Present Participle & Gerund
8. Adverbs
8.1. Other Adverbs & Adverbial Phrases
9. Directions
1. Degrees of Comparison: Comparatives & Superlatives
2. Partitives
3. Reflexive Pronouns & Verbs
4. Expressions Using “Avoir” & “Faire”
5. Present Subjunctive Tense I
6. Impersonal Verbs & Expressions
7. Future Perfect Tense
8. Interjections
1. The Pronouns “Y” & “En”
2. Imperative Mood & Giving Commands
3. The Conditional Tenses
4. Present Subjunctive Tense II
5. Perfect Subjunctive Tense
6. Imperfect Indicative Tense
7. Time Expressions: “En train de,” “Venir de,” “Depuis,” & “Ça fait”
1. The Past Infinitive
2. Simple Past Tense
3. Pluperfect Indicative Tense
4. Idiomatic Pronominal Verbs
5. Prepositional Verbs
6. Passive Voice
7. Diminutives & Augmentatives
In English, the stress can fall on any syllable in an individual word, e.g., “police” /po-lees/, “policy” /po-li-si/. The stressed syllable is in bold.
In French, the stress always falls on the last syllable of the word.
Here are some examples of French words:
| “police” | “politque” | “aliment” | “téléphone” |
| /po-lees/ | /po-lee-teek/ | /a-lee-mã/ | /te-le-fon/ |
| (police) | (policy) | (food) | (phone) |
If the words are strung together to form a phrase, the stress falls on the last syllable of the phrase. For example:
| une maison /µn me-zõ/ | a house |
| une petite maison /µn p(ə)-teet me-zõ/ | a small house |
| une petite maison blanche /µn p(ə)-teet me-zõ blãsh/ | a small white house |
| une belle petite maison blanche /µn bel p(ə)-teet me-zõ blãsh/ | a small beautiful white house |
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