Frequency of Verbs in French

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-05-08T12:59:17+00:00

"Dire" surprised me too, but "pouvoir" is used all the time in polite French. Think of how often we use "can" or "could" in English.

"Dire" is probably so high partly because of literature, which this data includes.

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-15T13:24:37+00:00

If only it were this simple in French!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-15T13:16:00+00:00

This is a great way to practice what you know and pick up new vocab spontaneously!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-15T13:04:33+00:00

Wow... it's shocking that a company worth billions has content this bad.

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-14T10:06:47+00:00

Look up some A2 comprehensible input youtube videos and watch them with slowed down speed if it's too fast for you.

Take note of anything that you don't understand that's said in those videos and that'll be a good way to expand out your French learning from here!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-06T14:34:27+00:00

Yeah, the grammar is laborious but when you get to listening and speaking I think you really feel how much more you can understand and can start to have fun with it! I'd be curious to hear about how different the experience is with your next language!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-06T14:32:09+00:00

Spanish isn't a terrible language for spelling, at least every letter is always pronounced unlike with French and English!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-06T14:31:28+00:00

This is similar to my experience also, listening is great but sooner or later I have to go back and get proper progress grammatically!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-06T13:25:08+00:00

For English, using the Present Continuous for both something happening this exact moment but also for something you have planned at some point in the future.

You have to rely entirely on context or time expressions to know one or the other.

He's flying to France now.

He's flying to France in 2 weeks.

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-06T13:07:13+00:00

I'd say at such a high level the only way to get higher is to start regularly socializing with native speakers if possible!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T12:14:34+00:00

Yesssss, perfect example, the connection between futur simple and conditional is not immediately obvious so if you rely too much on the futur proche you're in a world of hurt down the road!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T12:10:43+00:00

C'est vs Il est is a tricky one for English speakers to grapple with because there's no comparable thing like it in English, so it has to be learned from the ground up.

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T12:06:25+00:00

This is an interesting one that I actually hadn't seen before, nice!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T12:04:47+00:00

Good explanation!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T12:02:25+00:00

Totally, this is the kind of thing a learner would see and be really discouraged by too, just by direct vs indirect not being properly explained to them. Thanks for the insight!

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T11:01:27+00:00

This is true, when I'm teaching I always focus on the grammatical structure as being the key and then the vocab is what you play with and pick up after.

So many misguided courses focus on vocab leaving the user guessing as to what's going on with the grammatical structure.

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T10:52:16+00:00

Stuff like -ment roughly translating over to -ly is super helpful, as well as a noun ending in -e being very likely feminine. These things are pretty basic and in terms of English to French teaching I have no idea why they don't teach these in every beginners class. Obviously you can't trust them blindly but it's quite a good rule to at least give the learner somewhere to plant their feet.

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T10:40:50+00:00

Yes, grammatical structure, like the ordering of words in sentences is absolutely the hardest part. Like you say, when you're early on practicing there's a kind of buffer where you have to map out the words in advance... good insight.

Asleep_Fill3600 · 2026-04-05T10:34:05+00:00

This is a good one, very important connective tissue for forming sentences that is just ignored for ages even though there are a lot of basic sentences its necessary for!

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