French Essentials for Dummies

A from-scratch guide to French fundamentals French Essentials For Dummies is an easy-to-follow and accurate guide to core French concepts you can apply immediately to begin speaking, writing, and understanding French effectively. Discover how to conjugate verbs, how to use the correct verb tenses, and what you need to know about adjectives, adverbs, and other parts of speech. You can improve your conversational French and accelerate solo at-home, in-app, and in-class learning. Inside...

• Understand simple conversations
• Conjugate French verbs
• Utilize the right tenses
• Explore sentence structure
• Deploy proper grammar
• Answer yes or no questions in French
• Tell people what to do with commands

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Getting Down to Basics 5
Chapter 2: Putting Grammar to Work 21
Chapter 3: Here and Now: The Present Tense 45
Chapter 4: Describing and Comparing with Flair 69
Chapter 5: Connecting with Prepositions 89
Chapter 6: Asking and Answering Questions 97
Chapter 7: Using the Past 109
Chapter 8: Looking toward the Future 125
Chapter 9: Recognizing Verb Moods 133
Chapter 10: Ten Important Verb Particularities 153
Appendix: Verb Charts 161
Index 177

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Laura K. Lawless is the author of French Workbook For Dummies and a virtual French teacher who creates lessons, quizzes, listening exercises, and games for students around the world at LawlessFrench.com. Zoe Erotopolous, PhD is the author of French For Dummies and an experienced French language teacher. She currently teaches French at Fairfield University.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Zoe Erotopoulos, Erotopoulos Zoe, Laura K Lawless, Laura K. (Monterey Institute of Internati Lawless, Lawless Laura K.
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9781394373192
• ISBN: 978-1-394-37319-2
• Seiten: 192
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen > Erwachsenenbildung/Volkshochschule > VHS-/Kursmaterialien Sprache; French, Education, Linguistics, EDUCATION / Reference, Reference works, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching and learning, Educational: Arts, general, Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, LANGUAGE STUDY / French