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How to easily tell if a word is feminine or masculine in French?

Depending on the word category or it's ending? You can guess whether it is masculine or feminine. However there are exceptions but knowing the strategies will help you identify French nouns gender with about 90% accuracy.

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Lexicity

Let me introduce you to a great, great website: Lexicity. It contains resources regarding dead languages (Mayan, Sumerian, Old Norse, to only quote a few). And it, of course, has an Old French section.

Have fun, my pretties!

Resources masterpost

Being exposed to French:

Websites, social media

IG accounts with lots of stories

Online courses about French

Online courses in French

French subreddits

Fanfictions

Buzzfeed

Improving your:

Pronunciation

Speaking

Stutter

Things to listen:

Music

Podcasts

Radio stations

TED talks

Things to read:

Graphic novels/comics

News

Ebooks + quizzes (by me)

Short stories

Vikidia - kids Wikipedia

Things to watch:

Cartoons

Kids shows

The Simpsons the movie

True crime

TV programs - sci-fi shows, travelling, etc.

Youtubers

Extra:

Antidote 10 + BonPatron - Grammarly equivalents

Conjugation by le Nouvel Obs

Deepl - very good at translating sentences/expressions

Forbo - natives pronouncing things

Lexicity - about Ancien/Moyen Français

Lingolden - Chrome extension that teaches vocabulary

Linguo.tv (french videos + subtitles)

Reverso - very good alternative to Google translation

Vocab List/Grammar from My Blog Masterpost

if only i actually knew all these words

Keep reading

French Witchy Vocabulary

Tell me if anything is wrong!

La sorcellerie - The witchcraft

Les éléments - The elements (M)

La terre - The earth

L’eau - The water (F)

L’air - The air (M)

Le feu - The fire

L’esprit - The spirit (M)

La baguette magique - The wand

L’épée - The sword (F)

La tasse - The cup

Le pentacle - The pentacle

La lune - The moon

Le soleil - The sun

Le cercle - The circle

Le sel - The salt

La bougie - The candle

La pierre - The stone

Le cristal - The crystal

La plume - The feather

Le grimoire - The grimoire

Le sortilège - The spell

La prière - The prayer

La malédiction - The curse

L’autel - The altar (M)

Le sanctuaire - The shrine

La magie - The magick

La nature - The nature

Le culte - The coven/cult

Le panthéon - The pantheon

La sorcière - The witch

Ancien/ne - Ancient

Magique - Magical

Pur - Pure

Blanc/he - White

Noir/e - Black

Gris/e - Grey

Spirituel/le - Spiritual

Religieux/se - Religious

Naturel/le - Natural

Mystique - Mystical

Prier - To pray

Maudire - To curse

Danser - To dance

Chanter - To sing

Guérir - To heal

Croire - To believe

Invoquer - To invoke

Ensorceler - To enchant/spellbind

Écrire - To write

Consacrer - To devote

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How to improve pronunciation

Salut! How would you recommend someone to improve their pronunciation in French if they don’t have access to a class/live in the country where French is spoken? I’m trying so hard but I struggle a lot with pronunciation but it’s so so important to me to be able to pronounce words properly and speak well because I love this language so much and it’s very important to me but I’m struggling a lot

You don’t have to live somewhere in particular or go to school to get any kind of skill. Practice and hard work will always be enough. Now :

Study this post about phonetics

Study this post about pronunciation

Listen to audiobooks while reading the written version (see below) 

Watch subtitled stuff (Netflix, TED talks, hacked content, TV5 Monde’s Sept jours sur la planète, Public sénat)

Speak to yourself, pretend to be a Youtuber, debate out loud (…) and record it so you can listen to it later

Some resources :

Youtube’s pronunciation channels

The website Forbo (natives pronouncing words)

The website Reverso (translation, pronunciation, context)

The website Linguo.tv (french videos + subtitles)

Phonetic transcription

Audiobook/ebook combo :

Le Petit Prince - Saint Exupéry AU / EB 

1984 - George Orwell AU / EB 

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo AU / EB 

The Art of War - Sun Tzu AU / EB

The Call of Cthulhu - Lovecraft AU / EB 

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll AU / EB 

L’Île mystérieuse - Jules Verne AU / EB 

The Bible AU / EB 

The Fellowship of the ring - J.R.R. Tolkien AU / EB 

Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen AU / EB 

Le Horla - Maupassant AU / EB 

Candide - Voltaire AU / EB 

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe AU / EB 

Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde AU / EB 

Hope this helps! x 

Some fruits and vegetables vocabulary in French

Here are some basic fruits and vegetables in French. Hope it will be useful to somebody…

(I’ve been inspired by another post but I can’t remember the blog)

some people were asking for a actual and i can never pass up an opportunity to procrastinate so here’s just a couple of things i always need to remind myself of…now back to my paper :(