{"id":21971,"date":"2015-05-06T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=21971"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:29:46","slug":"i-invoke-the-right-of-parley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/i-invoke-the-right-of-parley\/","title":{"rendered":"I Invoke The Right of Parley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do some fautes<\/strong> (mistakes) people make in English annoy you? Mixing up then<\/em> and than<\/em> or effect<\/em> and affect<\/em>? Des fautes<\/strong> that make no sense grammatically, but still happen all the time.\u00a0 Ces fautes<\/strong> might be annoying, but they provide a lot of insight into how people really parlent<\/strong> (speak).<\/p>\n

La semaine derni\u00e8re<\/strong> (Last week) I talked about the famous French cancan<\/a>, and this week I\u2019d like to continuer \u00e0 d\u00e9velopper l’id\u00e9e<\/strong>, but with une autre faute<\/strong> that French speakers often make.<\/p>\n

La conjugaison<\/strong> in French is one of the hardest things to master. There are so many variations of the same verb! You have to memorize l\u2019imparfait, le pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9, l\u2019infinitif, le future simple, le conditionnel, le subjonctif<\/a><\/em>\u2026 And if that wasn\u2019t enough you have to dodge tous les verbes irr\u00e9guliers<\/a><\/strong> (all the irregular verbs) as well!<\/p>\n

Cependant<\/strong> (However), in spoken French, many of les conjugaisons<\/strong> aren\u2019t as different as their written counterparts. This leads to a lot of francophones<\/strong> mistaking one conjugaison<\/strong> for another when writing.<\/p>\n

This is especially true for des verbes r\u00e9guliers<\/a><\/strong> (regular verbs). Take the verb parler<\/strong> (to speak) as un exemple<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Parler, parl\u00e9, parlait, parlez<\/strong>
\ninfintif, participe pass\u00e9, imparfait, deuxi\u00e8me personne du pluriel au pr\u00e9sent de l\u2019indicatif<\/em><\/p>\n

All four are pronounced pretty much the same way: something like parLEY<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Regardons<\/strong> (Let’s look at) a few more conjugaisons<\/strong> that are pronounced slightly differently:<\/p>\n

Parlerai, parlerez, parlerais, parlerait, pareraient<\/strong>
\npremi\u00e8re personne du singulier au future simple, deuxi\u00e8me personne du pluriel au future simple, premi\u00e8re personne du singulier au conditionnel, troisi\u00e8me personne du singulier au conditionnel, troisi\u00e8me personne du pluriel au conditionnel
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

All of those conjugaisons<\/strong> are pronounced like parleREY<\/em>!<\/p>\n

These fautes<\/strong> will ease the burden of memorizing the pronunciation of all those conjugaisons<\/strong>! It will also help you understand des fautes<\/strong> French speakers make when righting<\/em>… I mean writing. \u201cJ\u2019ai parler\u201d<\/em> doesn\u2019t make much sense unless you know how people parlent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Do some fautes (mistakes) people make in English annoy you? Mixing up then and than or effect and affect? Des fautes that make no sense grammatically, but still happen all the time.\u00a0 Ces fautes might be annoying, but they provide a lot of insight into how people really parlent (speak). La semaine derni\u00e8re (Last week)…<\/p>\n

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