Hello, my name is Kain and love learning French. I was a student in French 1 in American high school for my sophomore year, and I'm planning to enter French II in my Junior year. Since I'm a student and experience all the awkward stages of learning...
Bonjour or bonsoir. Going off lesson three with the gender theme, I thought it would be fair to include words also. But seriously, words do have genders in French. We have this in English, Spanish, Italian, German, and many more languages. Just that in English it's a little bit disguised.
Examples in English are:
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In French everything has a gender, and yes even your chair has a gender. It's female by the way.
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It's a complete shock to native English speakers when hearing this. Heck even I, a person that was learning German for a year, was completely culture shock when hearing this. Why is it such a shock? In English we tend to have two birth genders given to one another by distinct feature. Ignoring Tumblr for a moment, English speakers tend to use the pronouns he, she, it, and they to address a person, place, thing, or an idea. When addressing a chair, aka a thing, in our minds we use it to call the chair over. If you know chair had movable legs. Usually English speakers address animals and humans having a specific gender, and we give it an appropriate pronouns to go to it. This is because animals and humans move, break, and speak. When talking about a chair we call it a it. Get what I'm saying? But in French there will be random genders for the nouns. Sorry if you were expecting red to be a hot, fierce young man, but red isn't a noun or a pronoun. Red is a color. Just a color.
French Articles
What is an article? An article is a word that helps modify a noun. In English we have two articles which are a/an and the. The is a definite article, an article to refer to a specific or particular member of a group, while a/an is an indefinite article, an article that refers to an member of a group. In French, they have a little more then two articles.
Hey, how's it been? It's been years. Originally I started this book because I wanted it to help me study for French class. It ended up well if you're wondering. I'm not comfortable explaining everything that happened and why I stopped updating. Long story short, my life was really chaotic while I was gone enabling me to force on anything other then art because that made me happy. I ended up moving social media's a bunch of times while I was away during this time. Ultimately, I forgot about lost pass accounts. I only remembered this one because I ended up going through old emails and seeing I notifications from this account. I'm honestly very happy that a lot of people found this book very helpful even though there were a bunch of errors. I'm so sorry about that. If I could I would fix those up but uncomfortable senior year and college has really drained me dry. I can't even speak it anymore. If anything I hope your journey to learning French is going successfully. Thank you. Thank you. I know having troubles isn't a very valid excuse, but please take my word that it gotten so bad I honestly push every that wasn't important to the side. I'm sorry so sorry for disappearing for years. If I ever decide to take up French again as a language credit, I'll make sure to come back and update it. On that note I'll leave places where you could reach me and my new Wattpad.
