In 3 Minute French — Course 1, we learn a handy way to give your opinion in French, but what other ways are there? — In lesson 3 of the first 3 Minute French course, we learn the phrase “pour moi”. Initially, we learn that it means “for me”, however, a little later on, we discover that you can use “pour moi” as a way of giving your opinion. In English, we don’t tend to…

Consonants in French are very often ignored when they’re on the ends of words. Here are some tips for helping you navigate the world of final consonants — TL;DR — the only consonants you pronounce on the end of French words are C, R, F and L If you’ve been learning French with 3 Minute French, you’ll have come across a few words in the first course that aren’t pronounced how you might expect. …

When you’re learning a lot of vocabulary, there’ll often be the odd few words that you simply cannot remember — Whether you’ve only just started learning French, or you’ve been learning for a while, there’ll always be a word, or two, or three that you just cannot seem to remember no matter how hard you try. …

Cue cards are a great tool that you can use alongside the 3 Minute French courses — Whenever I get a new student, one thing I always recommend is cue cards. Cue cards are an extremely useful tool when learning languages, and I use them myself all the time. They play an indispensable role in memorising new vocabulary. In my 3 Minute French courses, each lesson gives…

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The word for “that” in French is “ça” and “is” is “est”, so why don’t we say “ça est” for “that is”? — I thought I’d write this short post about the phrase “ça c’est”, because I get a lot of questions asking why we say “ça c’est” rather than “ça est” when we want to say “that is”. Hopefully it’ll clear up any doubts. C’est — it is One of the first things we learn in…

Those little lines and squiggles that you see on top and underneath some letters in French are rather important — The little lines above and below some letters in French are called accents, although you might also hear their posher-sounding name: diacritics. They’re not found in English, so if you’re a native-English speaker learning French, you might have been a little confused by them. Firstly, there are five different types…

YouGlish is a website that uses YouTube to help you improve your French pronunciation — YouGlish is a really clever site that uses YouTube to give you examples of French speakers pronouncing words in their own language. …

A good learning system is something that will almost guarantee success in whatever you’re learning. Some of it has to do with the method you use for learning, but a lot of it has to do with how well you form habits… — It’s great to have a goal, but a goal by itself won’t lead you to success. Imagine two language learners: the first learner succeeded in becoming fluent in a few years, and the second barely learnt to string a sentence together in the same amount of time. Both these learners…