3 Minute French - Course 16 | Language lessons for beginners

Build on from the knowledge you learnt in Courses 1-15, and learn how to communicate in even more situations.

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Mar 2024
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What you will learn

Start to work through "Comprehension Exercises" to build your passive vocabulary

Learn about the imperfect tense, what it is, how to form it and how to use it

Look at how certain verbs can change depending on which preposition they use

Get introduced to Structure 5

Look at some more ways to make verbs negative in French

Look at the phrase "du tout"

Find out how to use the suffix -aine with numbers in French

Find out about the extremely useful word "d'accord"

Learn lots of vocabulary related to the house and household chores

Learn what object pronouns are and the difference between direct and indirect object pronouns

Look at the difference between "que" and "qui" in French

Learn a new way to give your opinion on something

Description

Welcome to course 16 :-)

This is the sixteenth course in the 3 Minute French series, and it has lessons 135 to 143, but it also has four extra half lessons, just because I couldn't fit everything into the main lessons! It's the longest course so far, and we really shift up a gear in our learning.

In course 16, I introduce a major new learning technique that appears in every lesson from now on: Comprehension exercises

Every lesson in course 16 begins with a short comprehension exercise where we work through a text together to see what we can learn. The texts are based on a range of topics, but they contain lots of vocabulary and structures you'll already be familiar with. They also contain new vocab and new structures, so they're great for building our language knowledge.

We start this course with a recap of the tenses we've learnt so far: the present tense, the present perfect tense, the imperative and the reflecxive verbs. Then, we move on to a new tense: the imperfect tense.

The imperfect tense is the second past tense in French, and in this course we're going to learn how to form it and how to use it. We'll also look at the difference between the imperfect tense and the present perfect tense because, even though they're both used to talk about the past, they are very different.

We're going to continue looking at the prepositions à and de, and we'll see how certain verbs change depending on which preposition we use. The difference between parler à and parler de, or the difference between penser à and penser de are very interesting to look at.

In this course, we're also going to look at the fifth French structure, which it might not surprise you to learn, involves the imperfect tense.

We're going to be recapping the word depuis and how we used it with the present tense to say how long you've been doing something. And then, we're going to use it with the imperfect tense to say how long you had been doing something.

We're going to be looking at some new topics about our home life, and we'll get a Vocabulary Expansion Sheet full of words and phrases based around household chores.

There's also much more that we're going to be looking at including plenty new words, looking at the word "pour" in front of verbs, a new negative expression "ne ... plus" and how the meaning of the adjective propre can change depending on whether you place it in front of the noun or after it.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy :-)

Content

Lesson 135

Lesson 135a
Lesson 135b
Lesson 135c
Lesson 135d
Lesson 135f
Lesson 135g
Lesson 135h
Lesson 135i
Lesson 135j
Lesson 135k
Lesson 135l
Lesson 135m
Lesson 135n
Lesson 135o
Lesson 135p
Lesson 135q
Lesson 135r
Lesson 135s
Lesson 135t
Lesson 135u
Lesson 135w
Lesson 135x
Lesson 135y
Lesson 135z1
Lesson 135z2
Lesson 135z3
Lesson 135z4
Lesson 135z5
Lesson 135z6
Lesson 135z8
Lesson 135z9
Lesson 135z10
Lesson 135z11

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Reviews

Sarah
July 17, 2023
I've taken all 16 courses and as usual the teacher is clear and conveys the concepts well. If you found the previous 15 courses useful, you'll find this one is too. I deducted a star for the following three reasons: 1. The teacher is still teaching in English. At this stage, 16 courses in, I think it's long past time that he teach in French. I take another French course series here at Udemy and the teacher began teaching in French during the second course. Yes, there may be some words we don't understand (at first), but at this point it's time for immersion. 2. I appreciate that the teacher is trying new things, but I didn't find the new comprehension sections at the beginning of the lessons all that useful. Mainly because we never review the words again. They took a considerable amount of time at the beginning of each lesson, and I found the time trade-off just wasn't worth it. I would rather have learned new vocabulary the way he usually teaches it, with a review at the end of the lesson. 3. Finally, I found that we'd already covered some of what was taught in this course. For example, we'd already covered the past imperfect tense in a previous lesson. The only thing we hadn't been taught is when to use it, but that could have been taught in a couple of lessons rather than teaching it as if it's new. There were a few other times when this was the case. I agree that repetition is important, so I wouldn't remind a review of something we've learned in another course. But teaching it as if we've never learned it before takes quite some time, which takes time away from learning new vocabulary and grammar. But overall, a good course. Just a few suggestions for the teacher for future courses, especially teaching in French.
Arthur
July 28, 2022
This is an awesome course! I enjoyed it very much I recommend it to anyone that wants to learn French. It made me realize that I can become fluent in French my target language without spending too much money.
Jade
July 26, 2022
Very helpful to put these words into context. Never thought I'd get this far into a course and still enjoy it! Thank you Kieran, you are the sweet voice in my ear every morning :-)

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