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this is a basic expression section of

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the

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vocabulary guide and what you will find

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here

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in the tables are a number of

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let's call them greetings and

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expressions and essential phrases

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that you need to know to get started

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speaking french

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so go through all of these make sure you

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can go from the

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english to the french

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and also go from the image and always

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try the sound never forget it's about

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repeating what you hear

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right it's not so much about reading and

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pronouncing

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it's about bonjour listening and

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repeating

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do the exercises as well over here

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um in addition to these basic

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expressions and greetings

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we have uh days of the week

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and numbers that you need to start

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familiarizing yourself with

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as well once you do

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go through these tables it's time to

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play the vocabulary game

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you know how this works you can slow it

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down here

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you see something and you write it out

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[Music]

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not fast enough today uh you can slow it

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down here right

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keep in mind it should never be a

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spelling test of

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you know your ability to quickly

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produce something in writing you can

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also look at it and just come up with

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the

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pronunciation right if you're able to do

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that

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then uh you've probably arrived at a

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stage where you're you can spontaneously

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use the word all right let's go back to

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the uh the tables and the rest of the

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guide

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um one piece of grammatical information

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uh concerns the present tense so this is

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going to be when you're talking about

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something

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occurring or also things that happen in

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in general

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like the sky is blue uh now i don't

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expect you to master all of the french

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verb endings uh but start to familiarize

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yourself with some

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really important frequent verbs like

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to work and avoir

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to have and as with the vocabulary game

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the conjugation game

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simply asks you to either type out the

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equivalent

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from english or to be able to pronounce

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it

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you can check out more about verbs here

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and you have some exercises

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below that are based on the tables above

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and finally make sure you go over and do

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these translations

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produce them yourself check them out

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after with bon patron to make sure that

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you have the grammar right

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so there it is basic expressions and

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numbers in french that should get you

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started

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it's a fairly lengthy section so take

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the time you need probably two hours

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and i think you'll be well on your way

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to your first conversation