Elementary
240 self-paced lessons: The passé composé and imparfait, object pronouns, y and en, pronominal verbs, comparisons, the future, the imperative, and survival situations from restaurants to doctors.
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The Passé Composé with Avoir, Part 1 of 2
Your first past tense: the present of avoir plus a past participle in -é, to say what you did with -er verbs.
Pattern Practice: J'ai Parlé, Tu As Parlé
Drill avoir + -é through all six subjects until it's automatic, with the elision in j'ai and the liaisons in nous avons, vous avez, ils ont.
Minimal Pairs: Je Mange or J'ai Mangé?
Train your ear for the tiny sound that separates the present from the past: je parle vs j'ai parlé, il regarde vs il a regardé.
The Passé Composé with Avoir, Part 2 of 2
Add -ir verbs (fini, choisi) and -re verbs (vendu, attendu, répondu) and the time markers that anchor a sentence in the past.
Negation and Questions in the Passé Composé
Ne...pas wraps the helper only; ne...jamais, plus and rien work the same way; and three ways to ask what someone did.
Déjà, Bien, Beaucoup: Short Adverbs in the Passé Composé
Short adverbs like déjà, bien, beaucoup and pas encore slip in between avoir and the participle: j'ai déjà mangé, j'ai bien dormi.
Dialogue Lab: Tu As Passé un Bon Week-end ?
Monday-morning small talk at work: ask about the weekend, say what you did, and react naturally.
Error Hunt: -é, -er, -ez, -ai
Four spellings, one sound: find and fix the slips in j'ai mangé, je vais manger, vous mangez and j'ai, using the swap test.
Build-Up: A Saturday in Five Steps
Start with one verb and grow a full past sentence step by step: time marker, adverb, object, and finally the negative.
Accents That Change the Word: a/à, ou/où, la/là, du/dû
Short words that sound the same but differ in spelling: il a vs à, ou vs où, la vs là, et vs est, son vs sont, du vs dû, and quick tests to choose.
Practice: Last Weekend
No new grammar: messages and short conversations about the weekend that mix regular passé composé forms, negation, questions, adverbs and time markers.
Unit 1 review: The Passé Composé with Avoir
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "The Passé Composé with Avoir", then a short unit quiz.
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