Kurbegov - Practice Makes Perfect French Vocabulary

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
French Vocabulary

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Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary is designed as a review and enrichment tool for the advanced beginner and intermediate learner of French.

The book is divided into four major parts (Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs) and twenty-four thematically organized units. Whether you are studying French in class, learning on your own, or reviewing, you can choose to follow the order of the units or study any of them independently from each other. Learning another language requires dedication, time, and, above all, frequent practice. Using prior knowledge, making connections with your first language, and recognizing word families will enhance and facilitate the learning process. The vocabulary lists in this book are built to reinforce and facilitate the use of those techniques and make learning both interesting and easy. The accompanying examples provide as much context as possible for you to understand the meaning of the vocabulary as well as how they are used in sentences.

Special notes alert you to words with multiple meanings such as la fille, which can mean daughter as well as girl. The book includes brief reviews of genders of nouns and corresponding articles, agreement of adjectives, and formation of adverbs. Structures such as comparative adverbial phrases are explained and illustrated. More than a hundred exercises provide ample practice of the material. The exercises have French titles that allow you to anticipate the task. The exercises are varied enough to accommodate various learning styles and levels of ability.

Some exercises merely test your memory and recognition. Others require you to show understanding of complex sentences and the ability to use context to derive meaning. Enjoy the journey and Bonne chance! PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
French Vocabulary

In this unit you will learn many nouns concerning everyday life from daily activities to common health issues. Since French nouns (for people as well as things) can be either masculine or feminine in gender and singular or plural in number, it is necessary to know a few generalities about the gender and number of nouns and the appropriate articles that precede them. As there is no logical explanation for the gender of objects or things, they simply have to be memorized as being masculine or feminine. Nouns that describe people, however, generally match the persons gender.

People of the male sex are masculine. The singular masculine noun is preceded by a masculine article such as le, un, and ce. People of the female sex are feminine, except for those few professions that were traditionally male professions, such as le professeur (the teacher, the professormale or female). However, this rule is often disregarded in contemporary French, and many people now say la professeur for a female teacher or professor. The singular feminine noun is preceded by a feminine article such as la, une, or cette. The definite article le or la preceding each noun in the vocabulary lists tell you whether that noun is masculine (m.) or feminine (f.).

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