French Lesson Week 1- Leçon 2 [French Auxiliary Verb Être]

[JamAirsoft]

Salut! I'm just confused about pronouns; would it be je vais en manger, or j'en vais manger? Thanks!!

[Marillia5212]

I give up! If i get 20 likes i will try to learn french again!

[FrenchTastic1]

@abacablog Hi , Someone already ask me the same question here (read my reply to PurpleRedDragron) and I would not want to repeat myself, but just to summarize, ÊTRE should sound ETR, and I know this, this is the "ideal" way, BUT in spoken conversation, a final sound euh' may at times pop up here and there in people's mouth. This, you can't really control, so I can understand when PurpleRedDragron says thay her teacher say ETRa rather than ETR. Language's "phono-fluidity" does happen. Merci.

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[meganlevegan]

Ah! Love you for this! I recently had an exam in French and messed up all my etre and avoir...This has been helpful!

[dpthroat69]

personne en France parle parfaitement le francais, donc, pour ceux qui aiment corriger tout le temps les etrangers, fait attention a vous meme d'abord.....la perfection n'existe pas....

[Jakdabom100]

Where are you from?

[mxikna]

Muchas gracias, muy util y sencillo :D

[LiLsLiM28]

no youre welcome in french was BIENVENUE.....but you can say de rien....mais c'est pas grave....je parle francais mais pas tres bien :) mais quand je suis dans notre classe je parle beaucoup :p

[CatchAndLearn]

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[belladona17]

merci!

[donfajn]

this is awesome. thanx so much, Herman

[overthehill91]

buddies accent is annoying

[brodydalle93]

thank you! very intresting, is similar to spanish, i´m from argentina, but is difficult to me, why didnt you say the present perfect and the past simple? is in another lesson?

[chuckygt62]

lallalalalalalalalaallalalalal­aalalalalalalalalalalalallalla­lalaallaa

[animelover000111]

You're missing 2 of the Etre

"Qui" AND "On"

[Saruman38]

"Qui" isn't a personal pronoun.

[animelover000111]

Sweet I have mid terms on tuesday on All this stuff!

yay...)= I hate french at school

[passionsfanNBC]

avoir- to have.

[ilikebollywood]

Bonjour, je m'appelle jas et j'ai etudais le francais a mon college et je trouve le francais tres difficile! J'ai travailler pour ma "pre-lims" et je suis mal a tete!

[alpacks]

"je suis mal a tete! "

you must use verb "avoir" here ! "être" is wrong for "to feel pain has the head" you must use : j'ai (avoir) mal a la tête (i'm french)

[widben]

bonjour j'mapelle walter et j'habite a washington DC USA. j'aime le français. merci au voir.

[anakara]

your lessons online are better than my UNI class

the book we have to use for basic french, is completely in french, i was totally lost.. thanx man, i have an oral exam tommorrow, and i'm only just grasping things

Merci

[belacqua22]

first of all, i'm from mexico. second, you are a great teacher, vous êtes meilleur que tous mes professeurs, je vous aime.i really liked your class. thanks a lot. bye!!

[mygirlmimi3]

can you tell me about any program i can buy to learn french, im in college taken french and I had to miss a class, and im having trouble with the verb avoir

[xxDarkstreamxx]

avoir? like how to conjugate (sp?) it?

[mygirlmimi3]

yes, i went to his yahoo class, i got it now. this guy is good, ty, i learn more here then i do in college.

[xxDarkstreamxx]

damn. that sucks.

well, good luck. ^_^

[barbur78]

thanks for you lesson!!:)...muchas gracias por tu ayuda!!

[pamelatube37]

Vous etes bon professeur, je suis content.... j'habite a Lourdes pour duex ans, je comprend a peu, je t'aime francais, merci au revoir

[PurpleRedDragon]

i'm a bit confused with the pronounciation of "Etre". my french teacher pronounces it like "etra", while u say it like "et"

are there different ways to say it?..

[FrenchTastic1]

Salut! "être" may sound slightly different depending on whether the speaker stress the last E or not. Sometimes it does sound like your prof's "êtra". In my case, i chose to say it without E so u may have heard something like "ETR" (not ET, though since I make sure the "R" gets pronounced at least :-) Sry for making it confusing(A grammar may be tied to an entire linguistic community, but speech is tied to individuals, which explains the difference in sound sometimes). Hope this helps. Merci!

[jjqnario]

hello, i would just want to know, and it bugs me so much, what "you're welcome" means in french. thank you.

[FrenchTastic1]

Translation of "You're welcome" in French = "De rien" (said as a mark of gratitude).

Herman

[jjqnario]

thanks a lot... so its meaning is like spanish "de nada". Does 'rien' means 'nothing'?

thanks again...

[jkrdsr]

I hear etr.

[kq07]

thanks alot!! im download the videos to my ipod. its so helpfull!!

[Uchicita]

Thanks so much, this is just amazing! It its very helpfull for beginners like me.

I'll keep looking for next french lesson ;)

Au revoir!

[FrenchTastic1]

Bonjour Uchicita,

comment vas-tu?

The next lesson for you will be week 2 - Lesson 1 (The auxiliary Verb Avoir). Thus, you can also work in sync with my written lesson on frenchtasticpeopledotcom . Let me know if you need any help.

Herman

[lilith2k4]

eres mi idolo

gracias

[ilander18]

Hi, There;

My name is Jane, I am from Sydney, Australia. Thanks for all your effort to prepare these wonderful French lessons. I find it great help to my French learning process. I love the beauty and musical sound of French language. Hope I will be able to speak it one day.

Thanks again.

Jane

[ilander18]

Hi, There;

My name is Jane, I am from Sydney, Australia. Thanks for all your effort to prepare these wonderful French lessons. I find it great help to my French learning process. I love the beauty and musical sound of French language. Hope I will be able to speak it one day.

Thanks again.

Jane

[maxiperreira]

Here, you say in English that you can use any noun or adjective IN FRONT OF the verb etre -- you mean AFTER not in front of, which means "before" the verb. je suis desole mais tu n'es pas correct!

(Oops -- I don't have accent marks on my keyboard!)

[FrenchTastic1]

maxiperreira, thanks for calling my attention on this. Indeed, the NON-NATIVE English speaker that i am was carried away while translating mentally my speech from French into English in this unfiltered tutorial. Based on all the examples i provided, one can indeed see that i meant AFTER, and not BEFORE. Always perfecting my English...thanks for helping. Merci!

[stuckinrutland]

merci beaucoup pour les lecons. je utilise ce video pour ma classe de francais.

[chocotofu3]

Very helpful!

[angelutus]

gracias por el material es muy bueno me gusta mucho las explicaciones, i'm spanish and i am learning frensh very useful.

[PantsBouquet]

They would be a lot more helpful with the follow along lessons, which cannot be accessed.....looks like I'll find another French Tastic teacher. Olive vwah! I mean, Au revoir!

[Kpmuelle]

does anybody know what the web site is to the yahoo downloadable file that helps and goes along with these lessons.

[Afatasstank]

Thanks a lot for posting these videos, they're very helpful

[FrenchTastic1]

hehe, i can see that you're also starting to feel the same frustation i feel each tiime i have to explain the french articles to my students. please, there's a downloadable lesson on this topic in my virtual class where i explain all this. But to answer this particular question, let me just say that it's arbitrary for the most part. There's nothing masculine in a cloud. Curious language, huh? :-)

[direkxun]

so the words 'suis, es, est and such' are the verbs to be, right?

and why is it that you use the verb 'est' in the sentence LE CIEL EST NUAGEAUX when this should go after the pronouns il (he) and/or elle (she)? Sky is neither a male nor a female.

sorry, but i just did not get it.

[daisyv316]

in french as well as in spanish everything is drescibed as a female or male, that is why you hear le, la, so many times.

[ced44310]

For "LE CIEL", we use the pronoun "il".

[emsters2by4]

merci beacoup

[iamayoub]

thanks sir,you are helpful, i appreciate it.

[Kpmuelle]

thanks man

[bnvdevil]

haha.. thanks for the lesson.. u should make some videos in spanish.. i believe u could relate spanish better with french.