Speak French Now Book II: Improvise on the French Verb, Pronoun, Word Order, and Much More...!

By Ralph Hedges

Speak French Now Book II is oriented to improvising on French words and phrases. Improvising means taking a phrase and adding words, names, or changing verb tenses; whom you are talking to, for example, or when - present, past, future, or conditional. Improvisation then, is 'choices' of content and context.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387941865

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Talk French Now II for the Beginner,

Student, Traveler, Business

If you can’t talk French, you don’t know French !

©2022 Ralph Carroll Hedges

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Contents

Foreword

Reviewing

Section I : Révision…

Section II : Generative phrases: Il y a

Section III : Comparative French terms

Section IV : French verbs

Section V : The French elision

Section VI : The reflexive verb

Sectiion VII: Essential Words and Phrases

Section VIII : Pronouns

Foreword

In ‘Talk French Now Book I’ you were shown how words and phrases may be improvised upon simply by adding names to greetings, for one. Your French must communicate sincerely and not just a memorized French. If you are trying to just pronounce each word correctly, you’re on the wrong path – an entire phrase must be pronounced as a complete unit of thought in one breath just as you would for a single word. That takes practice listening to the sound-bytes in a translator. There will  be many ‘silent’ letters so that the pronunciation will include far less than the spelling.  That’s French. Master the shorter phrases and the longer phrases will come more easily. Your French must be French and not a translated effort from English. As you listen to the sound-bytes, listen to the English first. It will sound ‘normal’ easily understood and pronounced. Next, listen to the French translation. It will sound quite fast and difficult to understood. But to a French person, the opposite will be true, with the French easily pronounced and understood, with the English part fast and difficult to understand and pronounce.  This is an important point when learning to speak French. The French sound-byte that you are listening to is normal French, and your job