Comments on: Intermediate Lesson #18 - If You Stay Out Too Late, You’ll Pay the Price in France! http://www.frenchpod101.com/2010/05/05/intermediate-lesson-18-if-you-stay-out-too-late-youll-pay-the-price-in-france/ Learn French with Free Podcasts Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at FrenchPod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever! Thu, 17 May 2012 19:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Julie http://www.frenchpod101.com/2010/05/05/intermediate-lesson-18-if-you-stay-out-too-late-youll-pay-the-price-in-france/#comment-12736 Sun, 09 May 2010 14:59:56 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2010/05/05/intermediate-lesson-18-if-you-stay-out-too-late-youll-pay-the-price-in-france/#comment-12736 My French teacher in high school had an excellent way to remember what took the subjuctive. WOUDINE. Each letter stands for an instance that take the subjunctive. W - wishing, O - obligation U- uncertainty, D - Doubt, I - Il faut que, N - necessity, E - Expectations. I think that's how it all went. It covers a lot of what takes the subjuctive. It's been years I'm surprised I remembered it. I don't know if in other lessons on the subjuctive you mention this or not, but it wasn't clear from this lesson. Maybe you should state that it always is in the secondary clause following the que. Example: Il faut que tu ailles chez le medecin. Or you can avoid the subjunctive and say Il faut aller chez le medecin. I usually avoid the subjunctive and I probably shouldn't but it still looms out there as something scary you learned in an upper level class. I loved the idiomatic phrases in this lesson. Couldn't you translate l'oiseau de la nuit as a Night owl? My French teacher in high school had an excellent way to remember what took the subjuctive. WOUDINE. Each letter stands for an instance that take the subjunctive. W - wishing, O - obligation U- uncertainty, D - Doubt, I - Il faut que, N - necessity, E - Expectations. I think that’s how it all went. It covers a lot of what takes the subjuctive. It’s been years I’m surprised I remembered it. I don’t know if in other lessons on the subjuctive you mention this or not, but it wasn’t clear from this lesson. Maybe you should state that it always is in the secondary clause following the que. Example: Il faut que tu ailles chez le medecin. Or you can avoid the subjunctive and say Il faut aller chez le medecin.

I usually avoid the subjunctive and I probably shouldn’t but it still looms out there as something scary you learned in an upper level class.

I loved the idiomatic phrases in this lesson. Couldn’t you translate l’oiseau de la nuit as a Night owl?

]]> by: FrenchPod101.com http://www.frenchpod101.com/2010/05/05/intermediate-lesson-18-if-you-stay-out-too-late-youll-pay-the-price-in-france/#comment-9543 Wed, 05 May 2010 09:30:00 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2010/05/05/intermediate-lesson-18-if-you-stay-out-too-late-youll-pay-the-price-in-france/#comment-9543 <p>Did you have a curfew when you were younger? What about now? What is a good time for a curfew?</p> Did you have a curfew when you were younger? What about now? What is a good time for a curfew?

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