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David Issokson

David Issokson is a lifelong language enthusiast. His head is swimming with words and sounds as he speaks over six languages. Of all the languages he speaks, he's the most passionate about French! David has helped hundreds of students to improve their French in his private online lessons. When procrastinating working on his site, FrenchLearner.com, David enjoys his time skiing and hiking in Teton Valley, Idaho.

In today’s lesson we’ll have a close look at French word ville, meaning “city”. We’ll cover the pronunciation, several example sentences, the terms for “downtown” as well as the double -LL in famille (family) vs. ville. J’adore cette ville ! (I love this city!). la ville city

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Regrets – we all have them. Today we’ll learn how to express a regret in French. J’aurais dû translates to “I should have”. For example, J’aurais dû apprendre le français (I should have learned French). We’ll do a very brief grammatical explanation then look at some practical sample sentences. J’aurais dû I should have

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In today’s lesson I’ll answer the question: How do you say “should” in French. In short, je devrais means I should. I’ll explain how this is formed from the verb devoir (must, to have to) and provide several practical example sentences. The very bottom of this post has a fun pic of myself with an …

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In today’s lesson we’ll have a look at the object pronoun en, which has many translations including some, some of it, of them, about it and from there. Rather than getting into long winded grammatical explanations, I thought it would be a good idea to present several practical example sentences which you can start using …

Read More about En in French (pronoun) – 10 Example Sentences With Audio

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David Issokson

David Issokson is a lifelong language enthusiast. His head is swimming with words and sounds as he speaks over six languages. Of all the languages he speaks, he's the most passionate about French! David has helped hundreds of students to improve their French in his private online lessons. When procrastinating working on his site, FrenchLearner.com, David enjoys his time skiing and hiking in Teton Valley, Idaho.

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