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The past historic or le passé simple is another past tense in French. However, nowadays it is never heard in spoken French and you will only see it in literary texts. In literary texts, it is use...

Writing an essay in French can be a daunting task but it can be treated in the same way as writing an essay in English or any language. You must have an introduction, main body through which you explore a...

Consistency is the most important thing when learning a language so I recommend practicing as regularly as possible, even if you can only do half an hour per day. Reading poems out loud while paying atten...

The subjunctive is a mood, not a tense, and it is used to describe attitude. It often expresses wish, fear, uncertainty, or hope.
"Que" is a good indication that the use of the sub...

This is a tricky one many students struggle with. The passive isn’t acutally a tense, it’s a “mood”, since it can be put into virtually any tense! The mood you will have learned at GCSE is called the indi...