Un Chat / Une Chatte  A Cat (m.) / (f.) Un Chaton   a Kitten Un Matou   a Tomcat Un Chat Domestique 

donner (to give)✨, prendre (to take) ✨recevoir (to get)✨ present tense

donner - to give 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

je donne                 [I give]

tu donnes               [you give]

il/elle/on donne     [he/she/it/ gives]

nous donnons       [we give]

vous donnez          [you give]

ils/elle donnent     [they give]

prendre - to take 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

je prends               [I take]

tu prends               [you take]

il/elle/on prend     [he/she/it takes]

nous prenons        [we take]

vous prenez           [you take]

ils/elles prennent  [they take]

recevoir - to get 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

je reçois                   [I get]

tu reçois                   [you get]

il/elle/on reçoit       [he/she/it gets]

nous recevons        [we get]

vous recevez           [you get]

ils/elles reçoivent   [they get]

Possessive Adjectives

16/3/2019

In English, possessive adjectives function differently than they do in French. In French, the adjective has to agree in gender and number with the noun it modifies. For example, the word “maison” is feminine so the possessive adjective is going to use the feminine version of the adjective. First, we take the version of “my” and translate it: “mon” (m.), “ma” (f.), or “mes” (m.&f.pl.). Now you have to choose which one to modify the noun with since the noun is feminine. The correct choice is “ma maison.” Here is a list of the possessive adjectives.

My:

Mon (m.)

Ma (f.)

Mes (m.&f.pl.)

Your (informal):

Ton (m.)

Ta (f.)

Tes (m.&f.pl.)

His/Her:

Son (m.)

Sa (f.)

Ses (m.&f.pl.)

Our:

Notre (m.&f.)

Nos (m.&f.pl.)

Your (formal):

Votre (m.&f.)

Vos (m.&f.pl.)

Their:

Leur (m.&f.)

Leurs (m.&f.pl.)

In my opinion, the trickiest one to remember is “leur/leurs” because you have to make sure the possessive adjective agrees with the noun it modifies and not the people involved. 

Example: Ils ont leur propre maison. > They have their own house. 

Example: Ils ont leurs propres maisons. > They have their own houses. 

Bien à vous !

The school system continues to fail neurodiverse students

Neurodivergence in academic settings is highly misunderstood & under discussed. Below is a master list of information on the reality of being a neurodivergent student in an education system built for neurotypicals; as well as resources and tools to aid students with autism, adhd, dyslexia and more in higher education. Please share this post so it can reach, educate and assist and many people as possible.

**this will be continuously updated. if you have any additions please feel free to message me or send me an ask and i’ll add it to the list!

✰ EDUCATE YOURSELF

NEURODIVERSITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

VALUING DIFFERENCES: NEURODIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM

ADHD EDUCATION CARRD

AUTISM EDUCATION CARRD

MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AUTISM

DEALING WITH DYSLEXIA CARRD

TONE INDICATORS CARRD

✰ HELPFUL READS/SELF HELP

NEURODIVERSE SELF-CARE: MANAGING ANXIETY THROUGH CONNECTION

NEURODIVERSITY WELLNESS: LINKS TO SOME GREAT COVID-19 RESOURCES

PREPARING FOR COLLEGE WITH DYSLEXIA

AT UNIVERSITY: THE ART OF SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISABILITY

HACKING YOUR ADHD - where you can learn techniques for helping your adhd brain

SURVIVING COLLEGE WITH ADHD

GOING TO COLLEGE WITH AUTISM

5 TIPS FOR AUTISTIC STUDENTS STARTING UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE

✰ TOOLS

FOCUS@WILL: an ios & android app designed to increase your focus and attention, Focus@Will uses specially engineered audio in which frequencies similar to the human voice are removed. Why? We are wired to pay attention to them, and they distract us.

FINISH: an app that lets you add tasks and divide them into “short term,” “mid term,” or “long term,” as defined by you.

CLAROSPEAK: ClaroSpeak offers the option of visual highlighting in-sync with the spoken words, a great range of colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading and word prediction to help with writing.

C PEN: The C-Pen Reader is a totally portable, pocket-sized device that reads text aloud with an English, Spanish or French human-like digital voice.

DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP

I dunno if you ever heard of this couple before but they are legendary for French langblrs and any student studying French. 

Now who are they? 

Well, it’s more like what are they. DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP is a popular acronym and mnemonic to help students remember the verbs that use être for passé composé instead of avoir.

Ex:

      J’ai reçu mes cadeaux .

      I received my presents. 

However for Vandertramp verbs, être is their player.

Ex:

      Je suis sorti mon lycée. 

      I left my highschool. 

Which verbs are Vandertramp verbs?

D - devenir ( to become ) 

R - revenir ( to come back ) 

&

M - monter ( to go up)

R - rentrer ( to return ) 

S - sortir ( to leave )

V - venir ( to come )

A - aller ( to go )

N - naître ( to be born )

D - descendre ( to descend / to go down )

E - entrer ( to enter )

R - retourner ( to return )

T - tomber ( to fall )

R - rester ( to remain )

A - arriver ( to arrive )

M - mourir ( to die )

P - partir ( to leave / to part )

When using these verbs in passé composé, remember that these verbs are être ( to be ) exempted from using avoir in this tense. I really hope this helps you guys in your language journey, trust me, this mnemonic saved me in many paragraphs and papers I had to submit in my French classes. Let me know if you have any questions or if you want to add onto this !

Hoping for better days,

Kopi <3

bon matin! c’est tôt pour moi, hmm? today I’ll be sharing some online resources for learning french ranging from vocab lists to full on courses! i hope you find these useful - the internet really is precious when learning languages! <3

⁎⁺˳✧༚ frenchtoday.com

this website threatens to put me out of business and I couldn’t be more delighted! vocab lists galore, free lessons, tips to work on your pronunciation, articles on french culture and even stories and poetry. i haven’t looked at everything available on there, but from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty useful!

⁎⁺˳✧༚ frenchpod101.com

this is a free course you can take, with options for absolute beginners and those already a little familiar with the language. it looks to be good for conversational french and is an easy, no nonsense starting point for beginners, who i know from experience are often easily overwhelmed.

⁎⁺˳✧༚ coffee break french

this is one I’m not quite as familiar with but has come to me highly recommended. it’s a podcast that covers the basics as well as providing dialogues and example role plays. give it a try and let me know how you find it!

⁎⁺˳✧༚ innerfrench (chaîne de YouTube)

this is a really interesting channel! you get to learn french through a variety of different topical discussions and he speaks slowly enough for you to get most of what he’s saying even if you’re a relative beginner, which can make you feel super smart :)

bien, c’est tout! i hope these recs are alright, and I hope we meet again soon~ a bientôt!

Wiccan Vocabulary in French - Vocabulaire wiccane en français

La Wicca - wicca

Le Chamanisme – Shamanism

Le Néo-paganisme - Neo-paganism

La Mythologie – mythology

gréco-romaine – Greco-Roman

slave – Slavic

celtique – Celtic

nordique- Norse

Un culte à mystères – mystery cult

Un wiccan – a Wiccan

Une sorcière / un sorcier – a witch

Un coven- Coven

La pratique solitaire (de la Wicca) – solitary practice (of Wicca)

Les dieux païens – Pagan Gods

La Grande Déesse – The Mother Goddess

Le Dieu Cornu – The Horned God

La Charge de la Déesse - The Charge of the Goddess

Le Panthéon - Pantheon

Le credo wiccan – The Wiccan Rede

Fais ce qu'il te plaît tant que cela ne nuit à personne -  An it harm none, do what ye will.

La règledu triple retour – The threefold law

☸️La réincarnation - Reincarnation

Les éléments – The elements

🔥Le feu - Fire

🌊L’eau (f.) - Water

🌍La terre - Earth

🌬L’air (m.) - Air

👻L’esprit (m.) - Spirit

📓Le Livre des Ombres – Book of Shadows

⭐️Un pentagrame (droit/inversé) -  Pentagram (upright/ inverted)

Un Pentacle - Pentacle

Une baguette magique - wand

Le rituel - ritual

Le cercle magique - magic circle

🎉Les fêtes (fpl.) wiccanes – Wiccan festivals

🔄La roue de l’année -  The wheel of the year

Le Sabbat – Sabbat

français | writing

hi friends! this list is basically a mash of literature/writing-related words…?

【 books/writing forms 】

l’anthologie (f) | anthology

le brouillon (m) | draft

le dictionnaire des synonymes (m) | thesaurus

épistolaire | epistolary

l’épopée (f) | epic

la nouvelle (f) | short-story

la pièce de théâtre (f) | play

la poésie (f) | poetry

la prose (f) | prose

la rédaction (f) | essay

le roman (m) | novel

【 literary devices 】

l’allégorie (f) | allegory

l’allitération (f) | alliteration

l’anaphore (f) | anaphora

la comparaison (f) | simile

l’hyperbate (f) | hyperbaton

l’imagerie (f) | imagery

la litote (f) | litotes/meiosis

la métaphore (f) | metaphor

l’oxymore (m) | oxymoron

la rime (f) | rhyme

【 people in the writing process 】

le/la dramaturge | playwright

l’écrivain (m) | author

l’éditeur/éditrice | publisher

l’égérie (f) | muse/creative inspiration

le rédacteur en chef/ la rédactrice en chef | editor (of a newspaper)

le réviseur/la réviseure | editor

【 punctuation 】

l’apostrophe (f) | apostrophe

les deux-points (m) | colon

les guillemets (m) | quotation marks (« »)

la parenthèse (f) | parenthesis/bracket

le point d’exclamation (m) | exclamation mark

le point d’interrogation (m) | question mark

le point (final) (m) | full stop

le point-virgule (m) | semi-colon

les points de suspension (m) | ellipsis

la ponctuation (f) | punctuation

le tiret (m) | dash

le trait d’union (m) | hyphen

la virgule (f) | comma

【 words 】

la consonne (f) | consonant

l’espace (f) | space

la lettre (f) | letter (of the alphabet)

le mot (m) | word

le paragraphe (m) | paragraph

la phrase (f) | sentence

la syllabe (f) | syllable

la voyelle (f) | vowel

【 extra 】

la bibliothèque (f) | library

la librairie (f) | bookstore

la littérature (f) | literature

la grammaire (f) | grammar

l’orthographe (f) | spelling

le stylo plume (m) | fountain pen

la tranche (f) | spine (of a book)

i’ll be honest: texting in french is somewhat of a nightmare. things are often written phonetically and literally nothing will look like the french in your textbook. however, just like actual french; it may be nonsense, but it’s nonsense with rules.

in general: - no apostrophes - no accents - je/tu + être and je/tu + avoir become one word je suis → jsuis tu as → tas - je + any verb can become one word je dois → jdois - objects become one word je l’ai → jlai - basically anything that can be combined is combined

ajd - aujourd’hui bcp - beaucoup c - c’est dac - daccord dmn - demain eske - est-ce que g - j’ai gt - j’étais je ss - je suis jcp - je ne comprends pas jpp - j’en peux plus jsp - je ne sais pas jtm - je t’aime koa - quoi koi - quoi mdr - mort de rire mm - même oklm - au calme pq - pourquoi pr - pour prcq - parce que psk - parce que ptn - putain ui - oui wi - oui we - ouais ue - ouais qqch - quelque chose qqn - quelqu’un qlqn - quelqu’un qlq - quelqu’un sa - ça slt - salut ski - ce qui squi - ce qui stp - s’il te plaît svp - s’il vous plaît tfk - tu fais quoi tg - ta gueule tjr - toujours tqt - t'inquiète tt - tout wsh - wesh ya - il y a

hope this helps! and although i did make this list based off of things my friends have said, not everyone texts like this - don’t be too afraid!

Writer Beware makes posts on which publishing houses to avoid at all costs, which words to look for and which words to watch out for in contracts, and several other things that will keep you in control and knowledgeable about the publishing process.  I’d suggest reading through the website if you want to avoid getting ripped off, cheated, or scammed.

Podcasts

Knowledge :

Au coeur de l’histoire (history)

les chasseurs de nazis (nazi hunters)

france musique 

on ne parle pas la bouche pleine (food + literature)

les chemins de la philosophie

le collège de france (advanced)

il était une fois (fairy tales)

la main verte (gardening)

la méthode scientifique

regardez voir (photography)

sur les épaules de darwin

very good trip (rock n roll)

chroniques du ciel (aviation)

la tête au carré (popularization)

les p’tits bateaux (pros answering children’s qs)

les grands musiciens (interview with a pro musician)

littérature moderne et contemporaine

Society :

Arte radio (politics, health, history, tech…)

slate (similarish to ted talks)

hashtag (debating very current problems)

quoi de meuf (women talking about pop culture)

affaires sensibles (trials)

les gentilshommes (relationships men/women)

bouddhisme et méditation

kiffe ta race (about racial problematics)

le flow (well being)

sois gentille dis merci fais un bisou (portraits of women)

les couilles sur la table (men talking to women)

miroir miroir (destroy social norms)

du grain à moudre (debating sensible questions)

coucou le q (casual sex ed)

change ma vie (about personal growth)

la poudre (powerful women’s interviews)

nice to hear you (talks with creators, ceos, artists and nice humans)

mortel (to reconcile you with death and mortality)

la menstruelle (periods)

Movies + tech :

La cartouche (gaming)

la chronique ciné

studio 404 (tech)

geek inc (nerd chatter)

nouveau monde (innovations)

2h de perdues (shitty movies)

silence on joue (gaming)

radio rôliste (role playing, mmorpg)

nociné (pop culture/movies)

season one (to discover new shows)