The French language is spoken officially in more than 33 countries as an official or native language. French is the second most used language after the English language, which is officially spoken in about 45 countries. French and English are the languages spoken natively in 5 continents and also the languages that are taught in each country all over the world. Learning French is harder as compared to the other languages which many people learn today such as Italian, German and Spanish. The French language is intricate because of the unique pronunciation.
The French language is so sensitive to a few letters, which function differently depending on where the character is positioned in a phrase or word. The learner ought to be an observer to be able to notice this. Moreover, French language has a unique conversation style, which sounds more like a slurring sound. This style of conversation is known as pairing. When learning French, there are several conditions to be monitored in connection of words alone and a few more for pronunciation. Unlike the English language, the leaner has to watch intonation. Normally, the yes or no questions are marked by a tone increase while on mere talk; intonation is applied when one is ending the sentence. Though the French language is different, it has a similarity with the English language. The similarity is the total number of the alphabet letters. Both the languages have the same number of alphabet; A to Z.
The French language has conjugated verbs, which are isolated from the verb stem and has an ending. The first and even second conjunction has an identifiable stem from an infinitive, and does not change throughout the pattern. For instance, the word ‘parler’ which means to (speak), the stem is ‘parl-‘and in the word ‘finir’ which means to (finish) the stem is ‘fin.’ The third conjunction has an inconsistent stem and infinitive form. Additionally, to produce all forms of conjunctions in the pattern, numerous different stems are required. For instance, in the verb ‘boire’ (drink), it has distinct stems (boiv-boi, bu-and buv.)
In the French language, the endings normally depend on the tense, voice and mood of the verbs and sometimes depends on the subject, number and person. Each conjunction shows some form of syncretism, where similar forms are used to determine the different combinations in grammatical features, which is more noticeable in –er verbs. For example, a conjugated form of the word ‘parle’ can be realized as the 1st person or 3rd person subjunctive or indicative form of ‘parler’, or even a singular imperative. In addition, the 2nd and 3rd person subjunctive and indicative forms of ‘parler’ are also pronounce similarly as ‘parle’, except only in connection contexts.
There are many resources that can be used to learn French grammar and language. But many resources are mostly books. There are few audio courses and programs that are developing and being offered online making it easy to learn French. Most of these are decent resources that assist learners to learn French but in different ways. The most important thing is ensuring that the learning is effective. The major difficulties being faced by many learners is motivation and lack of progress while learning to speak French. Effective learning is more important as it saves money, effort and time.