French nouns

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Today we are going to study male and female nouns.

In French a noun could be male or female.  There’s no rule to classify nouns as male or female for a given word.  All we can do is to practice and keep on using the French nouns to start learning whether they are male or female nouns.

Here there are some examples:

Le Livre

(The Book)

Un mouchoir

(A handkerchief)

La femme

(The woman)

Une voiture

(A car)

Nouns usually are used with adjectives.  If a noun is female, its adjective must be female too and it will end with an –e:

Un home intelligent

(An intelligent man)

Une femme intelligente

(An intelligent woman)

La voiture verte

(The green car)

Le mouchoir vert

(The green handkerchief)

That’s it.  Keep on practicing French nouns and their genre.

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The Parts of the Body

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Today we are going to study the parts of the body and how do you say them in French.  Here it's a list that it can help you to improve your vocabulary

ENGLISH	FRENCH
Back	Le Dos
Body	Le Corps
Bone	L’os
Chest	La Potrine
Elbow	Le coude
Finger	Le doigt
Foot	Le Pied
Hair	Le Cheveu- Les Cheveux
Hand	La main
Head	La tête
Knee	Le Genou – Les genoux
Leg	La Jambe
Muscle	Le muscle
Nail	L’ongle
Neck	Le Cou
Skin	La peau
Shoulder	L’épaule
Stomach	Le Ventre

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Pronunciation: La Liaison

Pronunciation: La Liaison

In this lesson we are going to start studying some important aspects about your French pronunciation.

Some pronunciation areas are governed by the grammatical concepts elision and liaison, and enchafnement.

Keep the following pronunciation points in mind. Liaison occurs when one word ends in a consonant that is normally silent and the following word begins with a vowel or mute h.

It is only a concern in spoken French, of course, but it is still a part of the formal language rules.  In these cases you pronounce the word as an only word

UN ENFANT

When a pronoun that ends in a consonant is used with a verb that begins with a vowel, liaison occurs.

NOUS AVONS

Les nombres supérieurs à 100

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Today we are going to study the numbers from 100 to 1000.  Remember that, in order to write any number in French you just need to use a combination of these numbers and the rest of the rules you have already known from the previous lessons:


100- Cent
200- Deux Cents 
300-  Trois Cents
etc.

305- Trois cents trois

544- Cinq cents quarante-quatre 

1000- Mille 
2000- Deux Mille
etc. 

3500- Trois Mille Cinq Cents

1000000 Un Million 
2000000 Deux Millions
etc.

3.256.782. Trois Millions Deux Cents Cinquante-six Mille Sept cents quatre-vingt deux

Un milliard

(A billion)