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How do you revise for French exams?

A key thing to remember is that with languages it's impossible to cram everything you know in one go because it's a long process of building up your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar in order to give you t...
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Answered by Danielle M. French tutor
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When do you use avoir and when do you use être in the past tense?

Most verbs use avoir, but there are a specific group of verbs that take être as their auxiliary verb in not just the past tense, but in all of the compound tenses (such as the pluperfect tense). A nice way t...
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Answered by Danielle M. French tutor
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When do you use the relative pronoun que/qui/dont?

Qui functions as the subject in the sentence and is preceded by a noun or a pronoun. Qui replaces the subject. A simple way of knowing when to use qui is that it is followed by the verb directly e.g. c'est m...
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Answered by Danielle M. French tutor
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How can I learn new vocabulary more easily?

So first of all it's good to find out what kind of learner you are; visual, kinesthetic or auditory. If, like me you are a visual learner you will find that new words are hard to memorise unless you have see...
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Answered by Valentina O. French tutor
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How do I use "y" and "en" in sentences?

The concept of "y" and "en" can be difficult to grasp at first, as both words are often used quite idiomatically, and can be translated in a number of different ways. Y and en are adverbi...
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Answered by Callum D. French tutor
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