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How can I improve my listening skills?

Try listening to pop music: there's so good stuff out there! Really pay attention to the lyrics. Watching movies with English subtitles (and then move to French subtitles, then none) will help lots as well.
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Answered by Rebecca H. French tutor
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How do you use the subjunctive tense?

This is quite a difficult tense to use , but will give you extra marks if you use it fluently in your exams along with the other more regularly used tenses. It is to be used when the sentence you are using c...
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Answered by Elinor J. French tutor
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How do you know whether nouns are masculin or feminine?

It is not something you can just figure out straight away. There are tricks you can use to guess, which I will go through with you in a minute. It all comes down to learning your vocabulary, and practicing. ...
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Answered by Elinor J. French tutor
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What is the French subjunctive?

The subjunctive is a mood which expresses actions or ideas which have an element of doubt or subjectivity about them. Examples include emotions, will/wanting, possibility, necessity and opinions/judgements. ...
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Answered by Natasha H. French tutor
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How do you form the imperfect tense?

To form the imperfect tense for regular verbs in French, all you have to do is take the "nous" form of the verb, take off the -ons ending and add the following endings according to the person: -ais...
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Answered by Daina A. French tutor
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