Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• List the articles, numbers, days, months, adjectives and common question words
• Explain how to tell whether a French word is masculine, feminine, singular or plural
• Summarize the present tense, regular and irregular conjugations and their uses
• Analyze how to determine whether French is being used formally or informally
• Identify stress pronouns, direct object, indirect object, impersonal and reflexive verbs
• Compare passé composé and imparfait, the two main tenses used to talk about the past
• Explain the past perfect, also called the pluperfect, its conjugation and usage
• Recognize the tenses of the recent past, the immediate future, and the near future in French
• Recall how the simple future tense works and how to form its irregular stems
• Describe how to use the conditional tense to politely ask and offer and to express what would, could, or should happen
• Define the subjunctive, passive voice, adverbial pronouns, and imperative
• Explain the conjugation and use of the present participle, future perfect, and conditional past tenses