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In French the past participles of direct verbs have to agree with the gender or number of their object. For example, ‘I saw him’ translates as ‘je l’ai vu’, but ‘I saw her’ as ‘je l’ai vue’, and 'I saw them'...

As most language learners will know speaking a foreign language can prove difficult - and scary! However, there are several ways in which you can easily improve. First of all, you can find a buddy, someone w...

First things first, we take the infinitive. Then, we take a look at the ending, or the last two letters. There are three groups- verbs ending in -er, verbs ending in -ir, and also verbs ending in -re. They c...

This is a common obstacle for students of French whose native language is English, which doesn't divide its nouns into genders. Unfortunately, there isn't a way of telling the gender of every word just by lo...

The conditional is a useful tense, used to express things that could/would/should happen. They are commonly followed by an 'if', for example: I would go to the supermarket if I had some money - J'irais au su...