Connor (corrigez-moi svp)

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[unreal rampart]

if your goal is specifically learning grammar you'd want to use a reference book for French grammar, just reading novels can expose you to more advanced structures, which is good, but you'll need to understand them in order to get anything out of it

[stone dock]

ah ok thank you, do you have any grammar books specifically that you would recommend?

[halcyon iron]

Do you want a grammar exercice book ?

[stone dock]

yea and grammar theory

[halcyon iron]

If so, i can reccomend you " grammaire progressive du français " it has levels for all stage OF learners like beginners intermediate and two others i guess

[stone dock]

learning and excercises

[halcyon iron]

This is the book that my professor gave me actually

And He gave me" exercice grammaire en context "

This book also has levels i guess

[stone dock]

ah ok, thank you so much man, this will be great help for me!

[halcyon iron]

You are beginners level right ?

[stone dock]

b1

[halcyon iron]

Oh

[stone dock]

but my grammar needs some work

[halcyon iron]

We might be on the same level or you May be better than me i guess then

So you will most likely need the books that i reccomend

I can send you some pages if u want to

Or you could just Google it and find a pdf and check yourself too

Thats what i do

If u cant find any, i can find it for you too

[stone dock]

the main things i focus on at the moment is the skills that take to longest to get good at: listening, talking, learning noun lists, learning verb lists. I think once i master all of them grammar should be easy since i can dedicate all my time to it.

[halcyon iron]

Thats exactly right

[stone dock]

yea that would be really good actually

[halcyon iron]

Im not a master in both languages but thats the way i learned english

[stone dock]

ah ok

[halcyon iron]

Okay i will send you via private message

[stone dock]

alr sure

[quick estuary]

Not to put a downer but listening, talking, and verbs all depend on grammar too. If you're not used to it, you might have difficulties in, say, differentiating between when to use the perfect and the imperfect (il a fait? il faisait? tu as dit? tu disais?).

[stone dock]

perfect is a completed action and imperfect is a continuous action

[quick estuary]

They’re both completed but the imperfect has a sense of duration and entirely-in-the-past whereas the perfect is more like one-off actions. That’s not a distinction that is always clear-cut and can even change by context.

[stone dock]

oh ok, how do i find out when they change by context

or what would some examples look like?

[quick estuary]

Well it’s in the name: it depends on context. For example, in narration and storytelling, stories often have a paragraph or two of background info, the ‘normal’ state of things before the plot starts. That background info will almost always use the imperfect even when you don’t expect them to because they’re background info that takes place entirely in the past.