For English speakers
Your advantages
[modifier | modifier le wikicode]A large share of English vocabulary comes from French (government, justice, beef, restaurant). The FSI ranks French among the languages most accessible to English speakers.
The challenges
[modifier | modifier le wikicode]- grammatical gender (le / la);
- conjugation, much richer than in English;
- pronunciation: [y], nasal vowels, silent letters, liaisons;
- false friends;
- expressions with avoir (avoir faim – to be hungry, avoir 20 ans – to be 20) where English uses to be;
- the position of pronouns (je le vois – I see him) and adjectives (often after the noun).
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