Tesson - FRENCH: Learn French: French Verbs & French Vocabulary: The Ultimate Crash Course to Learning the Basics of the French Language In No Time

In the English language, you will be accustomed to using the following parts of sentences naturally and will need to learn them in the French language. These are essential and without them you will falter because they are basic words that you need to put into sentences to help them to make sense. In English these are:

I, you, he, she, they and we.

Almost every sentence that you use will use one of these. In the French language, which one you use will determine the ending of the verb that you use. Thats the doing word, but to a certain extent that happens in your own language. The French language is so complex that in our effort to help you learn French quickly, we are going to show you a shortcut that really does help. First you need to learn the basic words that were shown above.

I = Je Pronounced as JHU

The Word you has two forms one informal and used with children and friends and the other used more formally with strangers or with people you need to show respect to because you dont know them that well. The underlining on the pronunciation shows where the emphasis is given on the word.

When talking to a group of people, even if they are friends, you revert to Vous instead of Tu simply because it represents you as a group of people rather than an individual.

When you are talking about men or women, you differentiate as follows:

They in French is divided because you may be talking about a group of women or you may be talking about a mixture of males and females. If you were talking about a group of women, for example, you would say:

They, when you are talking about men or a group who are of mixed sex, you always use the male version, thus:

So the question that you may be asking right now is how do you know the difference between a singular man and a group of men if the pronunciation is the same? The answer is simple because the verb that follows it will tell the listener whether this is a group or one person.

The last in this group of words that you need to learn is We

You really do need to learn all of these off by heart, so take a little bit of time learning them because they will be used all of the time. Repeat the words out loud and listen to yourself. If the pronunciation is a little off, practice makes perfect.

In future chapters, we will demonstrate how each of these works with the verbs which are essential so that you can speak in past, present and future. This is a quick way to learn to speak French because its only these three verbs that you need to conjugate. All of the others simply follow what you are saying, as you will see.

Test yourself on each of the words that have been introduced and test your pronunciation covering over the phonetic words shown on the right of the above tables. Other words worth learning.