Unlocking French with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach. Paul Noble

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СКАЧАТЬ J’ai passé (zhay pass-ay) You have Vous avez (voo za-vay) You have spent / You spent / You did spend Vous avez passé (voo za-vay pass-ay) We have Nous avons (noo za-von) We have spent / We spent / We did spend Nous avons passé (noo za-von pass-ay) September septembre (sep-tom-bruh) Christmas Noël (no-ell) in Paris à Paris (a pa-ree) in France en France (on fronce) in Switzerland en Suisse (on swees) We spent Christmas in Switzerland. Nous avons passé Noël en Suisse. (noo za-von pass-ay no-ell on swees) You spent September in France. Vous avez passé septembre en France. (voo za-vay pass-ay sep-tom-bruh on fronce) and et (ay) it was c’était (set-ay) It was fantastic. C’était fantastique. (set-ay fon-tass-teek) lovely / very agreeable très agréable (trez ag-ray-arb-luh) It was lovely. / It was very agreeable. C’était très agréable. (set-ay trez ag-ray-arb-luh) I spent the weekend in Paris… and it was lovely. J’ai passé le week-end à Paris… et c’était très agréable. (zhay pass-ay luh weekend a pa-ree ay set-ay trez ag-ray-arb-luh)

      Well, that’s it, you’re done with Chapter 1! Don’t forget, you mustn’t try to hold onto or remember anything you’ve learnt here. Anything you learn in earlier chapters will be brought up again and reinforced in later chapters. You don’t need to do extra work or make any effort to memorise anything. The book has been organised to do that for you. Off you go now and have a rest. You’ve earned it!

      Between Chapters Tip!

      Between chapters, I’m going to be giving you various tips on language learning. These will range from useful tips about the French language itself to advice on how to fit learning a language into your daily routine. Ready for the first one? Here it is!

      Tip Number One – study (at least a little) every day.

      Learning a language is like building a fire – if you don’t tend to it, it will go out. So, once you have decided to learn a foreign language, you really should study it every day.

      It doesn’t have to be for a long time though. Just five or ten minutes each day will be enough, so long as you keep it up. Doing these five or ten minutes will stop you forgetting what you’ve already learnt and, over time, will let you put more meat on the bones of what you’re learning.

      As for what counts towards those five or ten minutes – well, that’s up to you. Whilst you’re working with this book, I would recommend that your five or ten minutes should be spent here learning with me. Once you’re done here, however, your daily study could be spent reading a French newspaper, watching a French film, or chatting with a French-speaking acquaintance. You could even attend a class if you want to learn in a more formal setting. The important thing is to make sure that you do a little every day.

CHAPTER 2

      I booked a table, ordered dinner and then paid the bill. What did you do?

       I booked a table, ordered dinner and then paid the bill. What did you do?

      The first chapter has shown you that you can learn how to create full and complex sentences in French with relative ease. It also began to show you how to convert huge numbers of English words into French and then start using them straight away.

      We will be doing more of both here, which will allow you to make enormous strides with your French in an incredibly short space of time.

      Let’s begin by carrying out a second Word Robbery…

       Time to steal some words!

      Word Robbery Number 2

      The second group of words we are going to steal are words that end in “ion” in English.

      Words such as:

      accusation reservation decoration invitation confirmation cooperation imagination irritation manipulation perfection domination creation innovation inspiration donation association concentration anticipation information exploration occupation

      There are around 1250 of these in English and we can begin using these in French right now.

      Adding them to the words we’ve already stolen so far, we have now reached a total of 2000 words stolen – and we’re only on Chapter 2!

      Words stolen so far 2000

      We’ve now carried out our second Word Robbery and have gained more than a thousand words ending in “ion”, and it only took us thirty seconds to “learn” them.

      If you look at the examples above, you’ll notice that most, though not all, of these “ion” words actually end in “ation”.

      When they do, they become even more useful because you can then use them to make the past tense in French.

      Let me show you how.

      Let’s take “réservation” as an example.

      The first thing you’re going to do with “réservation” is to cut off the “ation” at the end. Do this now and tell me, what are you left with?

       réserv

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