Depends on your purpose in learning French. So many teachers say this about the passe simple, but as soon as you pick up a book or even magazine it is everywhere.
@mpalin117 ай бұрын
I agree. Learning passé simple has been vital for me in reading French literature!
@connie57684 ай бұрын
You should be able to recognize it when reading, but we were taught that it's not used in spoken French. Both in the United States and in France, BTW.
@maxotat7 ай бұрын
This was interesting. ALL of my high school, college, and adult French classes in the USA taught passé composé and l’Imparfait. Even my Duolingo lessons are in passé composé and l’imparfait. I have yet to encounter Passé Simple.
@cathryn14137 ай бұрын
Me too. Thank his I didn’t have to memorize passé simple too!😂
@New_Wave_Nancy7 ай бұрын
Yes! Maybe this is a smart move on the part of French instruction in the US. I've never been taught passe simple.
@kennyhogg58206 ай бұрын
You encounter it when you read novels and such. I read the first Harry Potter book in french and it was used a lot in it. There are more recent books that don't use it but any books I've read used the passé simple. I've seen mangea many times reading.
@milliebeeski7 ай бұрын
Your videos are so incredibly helpful, and this one in particular is fantastic! Merci!
@sandradavis33027 ай бұрын
Wonderful! I briefly studied le passé simple but never saw it directly compared to le passé composé. Just hearing the former pronounced was a learning experience. Merci!
@user-jf5ro8uz5n3 ай бұрын
Vous avez tout à fait raison. Je suis québécois et je n'ai jamais entendu "je fus" chez personne. Je l'ai appris à l'école et je m'en sers parfois à l'écrit, (Ce fut un plaisir....) mais jamais à l'oral. Les Français que je connais font la même chose.
@eldredsashes7 ай бұрын
I learned a little about le passé simple in high school but I remember learning it was a literary tense, not one that is spoken.
@kathleenlarson23807 ай бұрын
I make pillow / cushion covers out of old quilts and bed spreads.
@sa21g22g237 ай бұрын
Merci beaucoup pour enseigner cette nouvelle thème du début de finde semaine
@justus65947 ай бұрын
Thank you for this lesson! I like the passe compose much better.
@xolang7 ай бұрын
et je viens d'envoyer un message à un ami français où j'écrivis "wow, nous téléphonâmes pendant 1¾ heure!" 😂
@susanbartone13477 ай бұрын
Merci!
@bluecafe20207 ай бұрын
merci !
@mikedawson997 ай бұрын
Encore une leçon très utile, merci beaucoup. Pouvez-vous demander à vos informaticiens si vous pouvez mettre en place des micro-paiements sur votre site Web afin que je puisse vous offrir un café
@lohphat7 ай бұрын
If you were reading a passage aloud in front of an audience or reading to. A child, won’t you speak the passé simple aloud or would you transform the phrase into the passé composé? Why does this tense exist? What sense or feeling does it convey instead passé composé?
@lacithedog55062 ай бұрын
"J’ai peur du passé, du présent, du futur, du passé simple et du plus-que-parfait du subjonctif." George Wolinski