this is a basic expression section of
the
vocabulary guide and what you will find
here
in the tables are a number of
let's call them greetings and
expressions and essential phrases
that you need to know to get started
speaking french
so go through all of these make sure you
can go from the
english to the french
and also go from the image and always
try the sound never forget it's about
repeating what you hear
right it's not so much about reading and
pronouncing
it's about bonjour listening and
repeating
do the exercises as well over here
um in addition to these basic
expressions and greetings
we have uh days of the week
and numbers that you need to start
familiarizing yourself with
as well once you do
go through these tables it's time to
play the vocabulary game
you know how this works you can slow it
down here
you see something and you write it out
[Music]
not fast enough today uh you can slow it
down here right
keep in mind it should never be a
spelling test of
you know your ability to quickly
produce something in writing you can
also look at it and just come up with
the
pronunciation right if you're able to do
that
then uh you've probably arrived at a
stage where you're you can spontaneously
use the word all right let's go back to
the uh the tables and the rest of the
guide
um one piece of grammatical information
uh concerns the present tense so this is
going to be when you're talking about
something
occurring or also things that happen in
in general
like the sky is blue uh now i don't
expect you to master all of the french
verb endings uh but start to familiarize
yourself with some
really important frequent verbs like
to work and avoir
to have and as with the vocabulary game
the conjugation game
simply asks you to either type out the
equivalent
from english or to be able to pronounce
it
you can check out more about verbs here
and you have some exercises
below that are based on the tables above
and finally make sure you go over and do
these translations
produce them yourself check them out
after with bon patron to make sure that
you have the grammar right
so there it is basic expressions and
numbers in french that should get you
started
it's a fairly lengthy section so take
the time you need probably two hours
and i think you'll be well on your way
to your first conversation