The French conjugation practice is easier than the Spanish one. Here are 9 incredible tips to a French conjugation practice every French beginner should know
This post is all about French conjugation practice
Finding the best way to practice French conjugation is a must. Here are 9 amazing tips that will make your French conjugation practice much easier and efficient at the same time.
The blog will offer you a daily French conjugation practice in the innovative way described below.
I loved to see how practicing the English verbs was easy and you will be a pro at using any French conjugation practice if you follow my tips.
This post is all about the best ways to approach a French conjugation practice that every student of French should know.
BEST TIPS FOR ANY FRENCH CONJUGATION PRACTICE
I BELIEVE THAT IN ORDER TO LEARN BETTER, COMFORT AND SELF-CONFIDENCE ARE ESSENTIAL, THAT IS WHY IN ALL MY COURSES I SHOW YOU THESE LETTERS THAT BOTHER YOU FROM BEING THERE WHILE THEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCED. THAT IS ALSO WHY I SIMPLY ASK YOU TO IMITATE ME OVER AND OVER USING A LANGUAGE THAT IS CONTRACTED SO THAT YOU WILL FEEL EMPOWERED WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR YOU TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE FRENCH.
1. Don’t look at the classic charts
Don’t freak out.
If you focus on speaking French first, it will be easy for you. We chose to color in red all the letters that are not pronounced. We do that through all our courses.
When you start by just paying attention to the sound you will notice that the French conjugation is as simple as the English one and definitely easier to remember and use than the Spanish one. That’s good news if you were planning to choose French.
When I saw the English conjugation, it made me very confident I could master it. Watch our presentation and you will feel the same.
Go the easy path
Practice the verb ‘to speak’ PARLER
I would have loved to have something like that as it contains examples to practice on with all the contractions to use to become fluent soon.
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2. Be selective
You want to practice the verbs that are most used.
Actually, they are the same in all languages. To be, to have, to go, and to do, plus to want and to be able to. But we start with ‘parler’, to speak, which conjugates like 70% of the verbs.
I like to have a good plan when I want to know French conjugation. It goes faster.
If you follow the tips in this post you will go all the way to the finish line.
Repeat out loud
We are going to repeat them.
In this blog, I mention several times the quote in ‘the Crown’ that says: we learn through imitation. Right?
We’ll repeat over and over.
The quote continues with ‘Like everything in life if we pretend to be something long enough, we might become it. ‘ It’s the only way you will master things.
Repeat what is correct.
You will be a master at speaking French in the condition that what you repeat is not wrong. Repeating a million times something that is wrong will not make it right at the end. In my courses, I have recorded my interviews with French people like the French Consul, a model, a chef, etc… and I make you work on this impromptu material.
Repeat out loud.
If you get used to the way you sound when speaking French, you will start to like it and you will be able to make some adjustments by yourself.
If you are a visual person like me, you want to see what you are saying, but it’s a distraction. That is why in one of our courses, we work on interviews step by step, listening first without the text, repeating without the text, repeating with the text, and repeating along with the guest.
It will be your way to develop your sense of hearing that is flaky. You will gently develop your listening skills as you listen in detail. It will empower you for not only French but for everything else.
3. Choose to master the most used tenses first.
The Present tense
This is the most used tense of all and we are starting with that one. There is no surprise there.
The Subjunctive tense
That might be the biggest surprise in this French conjugation website.
It is regularly studied towards the end of the textbook. But after the present tense, it’s the most used tense in real-life situations.
The present tense and the subjunctive are the first tenses you should get used to speaking French with.
At the end of the French Whisperer training, you will be very familiar with the tenses you need when you speak French.
Practice Subjunctive of PARLER.
The other tenses
We have tenses in French that we only use in writing. So stay with the simple ones: The passé composé, the imparfait, the future, the conditional and the impératif.
4. Choose the conjugation practice that is right for you.
Learn with the movement
If you learn with your whole body your memory of the French conjugation is tenfold. The brain is flaky. You need to add some movement. The concept of singular and plural for example, and me and you and them, become clearer for you. Sensorial memory is best.
On stage, everything is choreographed. You know where you are or what you do when you say a particular line. It really helps to remember the text.
At the end of the practice, you will always remember that learning French verbs is not only easy but enjoyable even if you learn French on your own.
Choose a French conjugation practice that makes sense
The horizontal presentation
We will practice horizontally first because it’s the way we read naturally in our culture. Even if we are not aware of it, we are more comfortable when we find ourselves in a familiar environment. And if we come from a different culture, we have to adapt ourselves to the new environment until it becomes familiar to us. Then we feel more comfortable.
The vertical repetition
After we have read and repeated horizontally, we repeat vertically.
The horizontal presentation puts the singular and its plural correspondent closer to each other. It helps us make some more connections in our brain and learn faster.
‘on’ versus ‘nous’
The French use ‘on’ casually, meaning all the time, when they speak.
When I arrived in New York, the reason why I didn’t feel comfortable is not that I was not familiar with the language. I was not familiar with the way they were using the language. It was difficult for me to be understood.
This blog will help you tremendously the day you will have to speak French with the French.
The contractions
In all our courses, from the work on words to the one on conjugation and the one on dialogues and film dialogues, we are using colors. You will focus on the sound and see what it looks like on the paper.
As I learned English through reading and writing, I had to transfer my attention to sound. It slowed down my progress.
By working directly with the way it sounds with the maximum contraction you will hear faster, understand faster, connect better, blend more.
You will be thrilled when you notice the French are so amazed at your way of speaking French to them.
The workshop
Now, the beauty of my presentation of the French verbs is in its practice. I will show you how to practice it to perfection when you come to my free-of-charge workshop. I still have to decide on a date. It will be 4 days, about a 1/2 hour live each day, the first days to make you a master of one of my insanely powerful tools and one day to master this exercise on the verbs. There will be the 5th day also free of charge, but only for some of you. I’ll explain. I am building a group of French whisperers. To pre-register for this workshop, it’s free. Go to frenchwhisperer.com/frenchwhisperers. It’s first come first served and I will send you an email for you to confirm you are coming. Registration is free. Participation is free. You will have two of my tools that you can use all the time by yourself afterward.
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5. Add the Besherelle conjugation practice to your list
I still recommend that you pair this presentation with the classic one. The Besherelle is a little book every student of French should have.
I have used it as a French student and I loved it. All French verbs in existence are related to any French verb classified in this little book. So smart!!
Whenever you need to remember how to conjugate any verb, you will find it there easily.
6. Don’t miss one step
Immerse yourself, Repeat, implement, and master.
The immersion method promoted first by Berlitz has its flaws but the idea must be followed. The color-coded system makes immersion very easy for you.
For French conjugation, repetition is key. What you repeat and how you repeat is crucial.
You need a tool to implement it. If you are like me, you don’t like to be left empty-handed. Make sure that you are learning French with a tool you can use on your own when you are done with the program.
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7. Become independent
The blog will show you the contractions each time you say something. Practicing verbs with examples is a must.
You need to be able to read anything in French using the contractions on your own. I don’t know any other course that can bring you to that stage other than French Whisperer.
You will become independent. I swear that’s the step I had missed so much when I found out there was a big gap between what I had learned and the reality. After years of learning English, I still needed support.
With this training and the free workshop that you will be invited to occasionally, you will become independent and free, self-confident when you speak French.
8. Always keep an eye on your end goal.
It’s related to the precedent point. If you want to speak French, you must listen to French spoken by the French in their natural environment and when they are not being watched.
The best method will give you that opportunity. Choose natural conversations, not conversations recorded in a studio.
The way I learned was not the way the language was used. It was too proper. So, my advice is to go straight to the finish line. That is what French Whisperer is about. This technique proposes you don’t take a detour. You take a shortcut instead.
9. Don’t give up
Becoming independent very fast is what will make you keep going. You must feel you are going somewhere immediately. Then you will never give up.
You will continue to learn, using my tools if you choose to. Like me, you will keep adding a word here and there but you won’t need a French course anymore.
Trust the quote in ‘The Crown’: “We learn through imitation. Like anything in life, if we pretend to be something long enough, we may just become it.”
This post was all about practicing French verbs with a healthy French conjugation Practice every French student should adopt
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