Learning French - An Introduction

• Learning French can be hard for some people.
• Learning French with this French Tutorial makes it much easier.
• Learning French with the aid of Phonetic pronunciation is great
• Speak French with the correct accent immediately.

" I am not able to speak French fluently but, I get by."
"Je ne peux pas parler le français courament mais, je me débrouille."
"Je nuh po pah parlay luh fronsay cooramaun may, je mu debroolya."

The verb (To be able, can) Pouvoir [ puvwah ]

The Negative "Not" is two words ne and pas. Ne comes immediately before the conjugated verb and Pas after it. Therefore:

"I am not able" becomes ( Je ne peux pas) [ je nuh po pa ]

In writing this book our aim is to encourage everyone to speak French without hassle. Hence the title " French without Tears." Grammar, pronunciation and accent are essentials in any language but not necessarily in that order or in the beginning. Many of us have had piano lessons, sadly, few of us have attained proficiency. We believe the scales can be offputting and depressing to many, therefore we try to avoid that pitfall. Our first sentence above indicates the method we have adopted. Where appropriate we portray the book in this fashion, in English, French and phonetically, getting the reader to speak as early as possible using and understanding the make-up of sentences.Words in French are sounded evenly and distinctly. In English the emphasis is usually on one syllable or another. Airport (Eng) - Aéroport (Fr) [air-o-por] and Important (Eng) - Important (Fr) [om-por-ton]

By giving you a combination of Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adverbs and Adjectives we would expect you to be able to compose intelligent sentences thereby encouraging you to persist.

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