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3 Minute French - Course 16

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Welcome to course 16 😊🇫🇷

This is the sixteenth course in the 3 Minute French series, and it has lessons 135 to 143, but it also has four extra half lessons, just because I couldn't fit everything into the main lessons! It's the longest course so far, and we really shift up a gear in our learning.

In course 16, I introduce a major new learning technique that appears in every lesson from now on: Comprehension exercises

Every lesson in course 16 begins with a short comprehension exercise where we work through a text together to see what we can learn. The texts are based on a range of topics, but they contain lots of vocabulary and structures you'll already be familiar with. They also contain new vocab and new structures, so they're great for building our language knowledge.

We start this course with a recap of the tenses we've learnt so far: the present tense, the present perfect tense, the imperative and the reflexive verbs. Then, we move on to a new tense: the imperfect tense.

The imperfect tense is the second past tense in French, and in this course we're going to learn how to form it and how to use it. We'll also look at the difference between the imperfect tense and the present perfect tense because, even though they're both used to talk about the past, they are very different.

We're going to continue looking at the prepositions à and de, and we'll see how certain verbs change depending on which preposition we use. The difference between parler à and parler de, or the difference between penser à and penser de are very interesting to look at.

In this course, we're also going to look at the fifth French structure, which it might not surprise you to learn, involves the imperfect tense.

We're going to be recapping the word depuis and how we used it with the present tense to say how long you've been doing something. And then, we're going to use it with the imperfect tense to say how long you had been doing something.

We're going to be looking at some new topics about our home life, and we'll get a Vocabulary Expansion Sheet full of words and phrases based around household chores.

There's also much more that we're going to be looking at including plenty of new words, looking at the word "pour" in front of verbs, a new negative expression "ne ... plus" and how the meaning of the adjective propre can change depending on whether you place it in front of the noun or after it.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy 😊

What will I learn in this course?

Here's a handy contents page you can use to see a brief outline of what you'll learn in this course. It will also come in handy whenever you want to recap any particular part of the course - you'll be able to find the lesson quickly without having to trawl through videos!

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Enrol in Course 16 today and take the next step towards French fluency!

Master advanced sentence structures, expand your vocabulary, and strengthen your comprehension with practical phrases for real-life conversations—delivered in fun, bite-sized lessons.

3 Minute French - Course 16

3 Minute French - Course 16 builds on everything you’ve learned so far, introducing more advanced grammar, a wider range of vocabulary, and new real-life topics to boost your fluency and confidence.

You’ll explore areas like comprehension, passive and active vocabulary, and more complex sentence structures, all broken down into simple, easy-to-follow lessons.

Each short, engaging lesson fits seamlessly into your routine, helping you continue your language-learning journey with clarity and confidence.

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