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

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  • 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?..

  • 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!

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

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

    Herman

  • 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!

  • 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

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

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

  • @angiewhite81

    Hi there, I am sure they charge you an arm and a leg, some of us can not afford that; where as Herman is doing this all free of charge, he has only left it to the users desecration to donate some money so that he can continue the maintenance of the site, so that he can continue posting these videos and so on. One should appreciate it, he is spending a lot of time doing that.

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

  • 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....

  • Where are you from?

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