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on October 17, 2021

Maybe try using these when writing down a recipe 😉

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Angie's tips!

These tips are things I did myself to work on my French when I was a student. I hope they can help you too ☺ Post-its for household vocabulary Self-explanatory. This is good for beginners specially and pre-intermediates. It'll help any level really, because sometimes we don't learn every-day English, we learn it in school or to discuss certain subjects, so this can help you learn those everyday words, useful when going on vacation and booking a hotel for example. → Put the names of things, the simplest things, on them. Wall, stove, hairdryer, printer.. Shopping list Beginners can start increasing their every day vocabulary with this easy task. Write your grocery lists in English! "Shop" abroad online Use sites like Ikea.co.uk, Bestbuy.com (electronics), Lowes.com (=castorama), Tesco.co.uk (everything), Target.com (groceries & home) to learn the real word for what you're looking for by navigating the categories. Use your hobbies Interested in garde...

The verb SUCCEED (réussir à faire)

Because in French we say "réussir à faire" and "réussir" = "succeed", I hear a lot of people translate that expression to "I succeeded to do". But actually there's a nuance. First of all, "succeed to do" is grammatically wrong, because "suceed" is followed by the preposition "in" and then by a gerund ("ing"), so you would have to say "succeed in doing". That's for the grammar, now for the nuance. If you pay attention, you'll see that this expression isn't that used in English by natives, and we often use "manage to" instead, for example: I managed to do my homework all by myself Did you manage to finish the exercise? There was a lot of traffic, but I managed to get to the meeting on time. First, "succeed in" is a slightly more formal alternative to "manage to". And according to thisvsthat.io, this is where the real nuance is: "manage to...

FEAR - Parler de la peur

In English we have quite a few* words to talk about fear. *quite a few: un bon nombre, un certain nombre Let's start with nouns, to say "la peur". Really there's only one: fear Ma peur des araignées . → My fear of spiders. Well, we also have fright but usually it's preceded by "a" and is less general.. Its definition, according to Merriam-Webster, is "fear excited by sudden danger, alarm". I think in French it would correspond more to " frayeur" . Ça m'a fait une belle frayeur → It gave me quite a fright Then we have the adjectives. This is where it starts to get interesting. There's two main ones to talk about the effect of fear: afraid & scared . They mean the same thing. J'ai peur de voler en avion → I'm afraid of flying / I'm scared of flying. J'ai peur des frelons → I'm afraid of hornets / I'm scared of hornets. Note how the verb after afraid/scared is a gerund (in -ing from), t...

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