Excellent!! The best explanation ever, especially with showing it on the time-line board. Genuis. I have always struggled with this, and now your awesome video explained it all. Un monde de remerciment!
Le futur antérieur est compliqué à placer en vrai quand on est natif. Le passé simple est parti dans une autre dimension tellement il est loin dans le passé et peu utilisé. Genre le passé antérieur 😅
J'ai lu que les françaises doivent deux les dictionnaires, un pour les mots, et un autre pour la grammaire. Cela semble plus et plus vrai comme j'apprends plus et plus du français 😅
@@totally_not_a_bot C'est pire que cela. En France, on ne lit même plus les dictionnaires, et on fait tous BEAUCOUP de fautes tous les jours. Donc ne vous inquiétez pas trop si vous faite des erreurs en Français, c'est rien, nous aussi 😅
I've been learning since a year but one of my friend who is learning from 8 years , says that she doesn't know anything except for bonjour and aurevoir even though she's learning from 1st grade.
@@Jmp2ba Hey, i'm a native english speaker, and i never understood the french tenses because tehy were handed on high when we were taught. Why does PQP com before PC? never hear so. What even *is* PQP? it was not explained
This timeline is incredibly useful. As I study French, I refer back to this timeline. As a visual learner, it helps tremendously to be able to SEE the relationship between the different tenses. Thank you for putting this together.
@@davidcalderwood4131 Notre langue commune n'est pas exclusive au Metropole Europeien. Senghor a enrichi la langue de Moliere d'une maniere digne en explorant la negritude.
I am learning French at school and find this video incredibly helpful. It's so much easier to see the tenses all compared this way rather than separate! Thank you very much.
LOVE your use of timeline and colors to represent the different tenses! Excellent visualization of this complex concept. My only tiny tip is to explain that the term "perfect/parfait" doesn't have its usual meaning of "without flaws" but in the context of verb conjugation it means "complete." Explaining this to my own language learners helped them to embed an understanding that tenses like "past perfect" were actions *completed* in the past, or "Future perfect" was action that will have been completed in the future. Thank you so much for such a clear, beautiful and precise video!
This is by far the best French lesson I've ever had... thank you so much for your hard work this was such an ingenious way of showing how tenses change.
verb tenses are the biggest things holding me back from leaving my French A2 plateau and entering the B level. i always get them mixed up or just forget them. having the visual along with the thoughtful explanations helped so much! this video was SO helpful, i paused and took notes as i watched and had so many "aha!" moments! merci beaucoup!!!
I am a retired Montessori elementary teacher. This is exactly how grammar is presented in Montessori education - with a timeline; in the native tongue, English. It is actually taught at at the 9-12 age in the context of the child's first language with the purpose of the child being able to utilize this understanding when learning other languages. It is a good example of how Montessori education lays the foundation for future learning. Until I learned it in Montessori training, I had never seen it presented in this manner. At the time, and in your video, I found it very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
@@learnfrenchwithalexa thank you so much for this visual! Please is it possible to also get the graphic? Thanks a lot for all you do to make french easier. I have been learning French 'forever!' and am still struggling. English speaker, now living in Montreal...but I will not give up :)
I am an English teacher myself, and my knowledge of French is extremely limited, and to be honest I just clicked on the video out of curiosity, I didn't know any tense of French, but after your explanation, and because you compared them to the English tenses, I understood to perfection, at least the basics of how the tenses work in French and their equivalences in English. I know that many people have already said this but, you are an excellent professeure, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge to the world.
You're the 1st French teacher I've ever known who uses a verb timeline other than myself! Amazing video! I have added the link for this video to my timeline handout for my students to watch. I use your videos A LOT with my FSL students. TOP prof!
Thank you very much Alexa. Just to show my gratitude. I started learning French with your videos in 2019. And now, I'm glad to annonce my fluency in the language... Je vous suis très reconnaissant pour votre rôle remarquable dans mon apprentissage de la langue française. Que Dieu vous donne la grâce nécessaire et suffisante pour continuer toujours à faire du bien pour le bien-être de l'humanité. Merci infiniment.
We're about to travel back to a French country and this video was the best revision for me since I was a little kid from 4th grade! Wish me luck 🙏 I hope I can finish school in French after all these years I spent in an English school! ❤❤❤ 😊
I taught basic French but I am going to France in about a month and need to brush up on verb tenses. It has been a lifelong struggle as French verb tenses are so perplexing! This tutorial and chart are AMAZING. MERCI BEAUCOUP ALEXA!!!
I always say "If you got an excellent teacher you will learn it easily!" You explained the tenses in a short and precise way and showed graphics for visual learners - outstanding! Thank you so much Alexa!
This video is super useful for breaking down french conjugation. I was born and live in Quebec, am considered an English Quebecer and these concepts were instilled from an early age. Especially through the Bescherelle. You don't need all of the tenses but the Present, Futur, Passe and Imparfait. Most of my foundation is based on my time in french school and being around the language for so long. It takes some getting used to. But don't feel bad, even native French speakers have trouble passing language exams here. It's just a matter of understanding the basics. Also, French speakers appreciate the effort, so don't be shy!
MILLIONS TIMES THANK YOU! I just finish my second semester in my career (foreing languajes) and I suffered so hard in French, the french tenses made me cry a lot because everyone could memorized everything but I couldn't understand anything, I though I was bad at french, but thank to you I know how can I start again, merci!
What a really helpful video I’ve ever waited for .. it simplifies the most difficult part in learning French ❤️ 🇫🇷 and in ONLY ten minutes. I can’t thank enough teacher Alexa ❤️❤️ A big thanks from all of my heart ❤️ And we are waiting for more .. as we also find the regular and irregular verbs another difficulty that we suffer from..
This is definitely, extremely helpful for me! as an mandarin speaker learning French it is difficult to come to a timeline for verb conjugation like this since the concepts of time are distinctly different, and I have never seen any other french teachers teaching these concepts through such a clear explanation and visual presentation. Thank you so much!
My first viewing of your videos , WOW ! We have a French film club that shows films from all periods of film making. I read the subtitles , but those who understand French always get the jokes and dramatic turn of events quicker, a double ripple of laughter , sighing , and crying. My school tried to teach me French from eight years old , and gave up when I was fourteen. My father was excellent at languages , but I do not think the language gene was passed on to me. Your video has aroused my interest in learning French , thank you.
I am just starting to lay the basic framework of understanding of French. The timeline is the best explanation of the French tenses that I have seen. I am going to practice a number of verbs in every tense. Thanks!
Well, in real french we use présent, futur and imparfait, passé simple just in books. In termes of mode, indicative, imperative, conditional (if condition) and subjonctive mainly after conjunction introduced by que. There are 3 kinds of verb according to the "stem": in E, in I and zero one (sa called 3rd group). Last letters are regular e-es-e for the ER (E group) + 2 or 3 in IR, otherwise it's s-s-t or x-x-t with verbs in OIR. The endings of present tense are partially irregular with some 8 verbs (avoir, être, aller, faire, dire etc... vous êtes, faîtes, dîtes and ils sont, vont, font and so on). Really suppletive forms occurs with avoir, être and aller, just learn them) and the irregularities met in other tense or modes are mainly with the same verbs + those in OIR. About the 3rd group, the point is to remember which consonannt will "link" the plural forms. It can be S (pronounced Z), SS, Y. Some 3 or 4 unregular cases here with forms in N (preNons - preNNent), V (buVons - boiVent) and so. Pay attention to vowel changes due to the position of the stress on the last syllable (pEUx - pouvONs). Nothing scaring, even french people can speak french... Have a nice day!
I’m just getting started learning French but have studied Spanish and Italian. This was so helpful seeing all the configurations in one place, thank you!
@@spikefivefivefive Vous m'avez enseigné plus en conjugaison en 10 minutes que mon professeur en 4 ans ( le problème est que le Français est une langue très précise ) bon courage
Another level of organization (along with this timeline) which has helped me is to group these 10 tenses into 4 groups related by structure. Group 1 - Imparfait / Presént / Futur simple Je mangeais / Je mange / Je mangerai (I used to eat) / (I eat) / (I will eat) (I was eating) / (I am eating) / (I will be eating) The structures are related as they are Pronoun + Conjugated Verb. Group 2 - Plus-que-parfait / Passé composé / Futur anterieur J'avais mangé / J'ai mangé / J'aurai mangé (I had eaten) / (I have eaten) or (I ate) / (I will have eaten) The structures are related as they are Pronoun + Conjugated Auxiliary Verb (avoir or être) + Past Participle of the verb. Group 3 - Passé récent / Present progressive / Futur proche Je viens de manger / Je suis en train de manger / Je vais manger (I have just eaten) / (I am currently eating) / (I am going to eat) The structures are related as they are Pronoun + stuff + Infinitive of the Verb Group 4 - Imperatif Mange / Mangez / Mangeons (singular) / (plural) / (we) Have I over simplified this? Does this hold up in general? Curious as to what others think.
It was the most glamorous explanation for the ease of understanding I've ever seen. You always push me forward to learn without giving up this complex language. Thank you so much, Alexa.🙏🙏🙏
That was the most helpful, easy-to-understand explanation of French tenses I have ever seen!! I love the graphic timeline!! That visual is so effective in visualizing the tenses. You did an amazing job!!
I've just started learning french (26days ago) and this helps me to have an overview of the different perceptions of time in french... and you explained it great! tkx!
Alexa, your cheerful explanations and examples have helped us understand more the minute differences among different tenses. They are very helpful. keep up the good work. Love your channel. Already subscribed.
Passé composé was what we learned in high-school French, it's too bad that none of us understood what exactly it meant. Plus, more focus on conversation would have been so helpful! Merci beaucoup, Alexa!
I never understood the tenses and this is very helpful! Although I'm kinda confused between some verbs' uses especially that I'm not a native English speaker but I'll look up the rest of your videos! Thank you very much :)
This is by far the best explanation available to define the crux of how tense structure works in French language. This helps me to clarifies the verb forms to be used when I'm thinking in English and converting the sentence in French. My native language is Hindi. I studied English as a second language and wanted to learn french as well, this has been helpful .
This was indeed more than useful and helpful. In addition to this video being useful, your teaching method est vraiment adorable. And this makes You quite a Darling Lady!
J'adore le chronologie! What a great way to understand the tenses that are so confusing to language learners. You have a great video that I keep coming back to whenever I am brushing up. C'est magnifique!
@@turnipsociety706 mais j’ai appris le français à L’école depuis 7 ans et je vais continuer avec la langue au l’université, au cours de ces 7 années, Mes professeurs n'ont pas autant aidé que cette vidéo. J’ai du mal avec l’imparfait pour la plupart et mes profs n’ont pas aidé mais, maintenant, je comprends le temps et je peux étudier et réviser pour mes examens. Désolé pour mon français, comme j’ai dit, je suis anglais donc ce n’est pas parfait. Je kiffe la langue et l’étudie des langues donc je vais continuer et apprendre💪
3 years of high school French (merci, Mme Simon!) and 55 years of reading. I’ve come across the 'recent' tenses but always thought of them as idiomatic expressions rather than formal tenses, so thank you for that.
Ça dépend. J'enseigne le français depuis six ans maintenant, et j'ai toujours utilisé une ligne du temps. C'est plus logique. Maintenant que j'ai trouvé cette vidéo, je vais pouvoir l'utiliser pour les révisions. C'est clair et concis. En classe, il faut souvent s'arrêter pour répondre aux questions. Et ça, ça complique un peu les choses.
Oui, this video is immensely helpful. Just to have as a guide in front of me while I try to speak in full sentences this is amazing and all one one page. No flipping between units or study sheets! Merci beacoup!
Just loved the way she put… « It is still a past tense, but in the future » 😂❤ Such a great teacher who explains everything precisely while making learning fun with an amazing sense of humour…
Merci . Tu es intelligente . I am a jss3 student and no one has explained this like you . Merci , au reviour et merci . I used my mum's phone to watch this video, tu vrai intelligente
Come un bilangue français second-langue- I find myself using j'aurais more as a 'past-future' tense than as future perfect. And it took me about a decade of immersion schooling to internalize what you explained perfectly in 10 minutes. C'est genial!
Hello Alexa. Where have you been all my life!!!! I have just tumbled upon your video. But believe me, you now have a new follower...... I am a very visual person and this timeline helps me enormously. As another follower indicates below, a picture paints a thousand words! I have been in France for many years and speak French quite well, but I have never studied French per se and I have faulted with French tenses for a long time. Your explanations are very clear and your energy and clarity are excellent. Thank you so much. I now have a French teacher! Maureen from Paris.
A very useful idea to show where the tenses occur on a timeline. When I took French in school we never studied the plus-que-parfait, futur proche or futur anterieur (but I heard of them because I saw them in tables providing conjugations of verbs in all the tenses) so I never knew what they were used for. And I never heard of the passe recent, futur proche, or present progressif at all (except for the last one which I heard of recently when I began studying Spanish). In school we mainly studied the present, passe compose, imparfait, conditional, and futur (which you call the futur simple). You did a good job of explaining what various tenses are used for. Edit: Another tense we didn't study in school is the passe simple but I was aware of it because I saw it in verb conjugation tables.
Genius! You have cut through so much confusion and frustration with this handy reference timeline. I have never seen anything explained so clearly, it should be in every French language textbook. I copied this lesson and saved it to my favorites at the top of the page for ease of access as I plan on going over and over this lesson and the others that you mentioned. Thank you so much.
I studied French for 6 years in school and this all went over my head. I lived in Nice for two years and learned all this by swimming in the deep end…. Not even realizing all these complex conjugations. Good representation of the various tenses
This is so well-explained! I learned French in school from elementary through high school and no one explained the various tenses this clearly. I’m brushing up on my French and this really helped. Merci beaucoup!
Another very common way to represent a continuous action in French is by using "Faire" in a rather specific construction. It's a rather complex construction '"cela + faire (conjugated at 3rd person singular) + a duration + que + verb at indicative" (or + subjonctive if "faire" is using a conditional tense but that is way way less common) Cela fait des heures que j'attends. I have been waiting for hours Cela faisait des heures que j'attendais (lorsque tu es arrivé) I had been waiting for hours (when you arrived) -------------------- As in English, the present can be used for a timeless truth. Je ne mange pas de viande --> I don't eat meat --> I'm a vegetarian And you can use the imparfait for a truth in the past: - je ne mangeais pas de viande (à l'époque) --> I didn't eat meat (back then) --> (Back then,) I was a vegetarian. As in English, you can use the present tense for many future actions: - Je pars demain --> I leave tomorrow
I used to be a Spanish teacher, and this is how I explained the tenses to my Spanish students. I am studying French by myself, and I found this very helpful!
This is great! I'm doing Duolingo, but I like seeing rules mapped out in one place like this to better understand the WHY vs just memorizing. I am so glad I found this!
I had a French lesson 5 days a week for 5 years at school, and some of those tenses I never even heard of. I left school not even able to make simple conversation, and totally unable to understand a native speaker, and I was actually near the top of my class. There was so much basic stuff I was never taught. I see now what I was missing from you and other apps I follow like Duolingo. You're the best though. I wish I had you as a teacher back then.
Thank you for sharing this timeline! It’s been 30+ years since my French classes and this made all the difference. Now, I really want to re-learn the French skills that I lost in said 30+ years. 😂
Thanks for the video! It is helping in my native English, Spanish and French! Many assume that because we're native English speakers, we don't struggle with the English grammar!
Just to re-iterate what all the comments have already said, this is so incredibly well explained, and the visual of the timeline was such a great tool for me to learn personally. And in 10 minutes! Thank you so much for the work you do, especially making learning french so accessible and fun!
Studying Latin unlocked my own English grammar for me. Only when I understood English grammar (moods, voice, tenses, etc.,) was I able to effectively study French. I use timelines to teach my Latin students. This was an excellent model!
I recently earned my certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and the instructors used the timeline, which was helpful. Unfortunately, English has, like, 18 tenses so that timeline got pretty crowded! This video was really helpful.
As a French speaker trying to improve my English that video is a gem 💎. Best of both worlds because I can review both my French and make some parallels with English tenses 💯 It makes me work on the parallel English tenses while reviewing
THANK U SO MUCH! I have been struggling so much in French. After I graduated I am homeschooling for 1 year with your teaching. It has been the best year!! tu es la meilleur professeur du monde!! Mon prof de français, son enseignement est comme de la merde
It’s much much clearer to me now since in alliance Français didn’t explains to me what’s the purpose of equivalent in English they just taught me how to conjugate verbs only that’s it Without deep understanding of that Thanks for your big help
Greatest long-term memory method of explanation for french language verb tenses that I've seen until now, using this guide timeline. I just wanted to make it clear that in English "I used to eat"...is not like "I was eating" at all in meaning or in timing and duration. "I used to" is exactly the imparfait, but "I was eating" means that you have to specify an exact time for when you were doing it. What were you doing last weekend at that restaturant? I was eating. What were you doing yesterday at the parlor? I was eating. You cannot however by all means say, "I was eating with my friend during college." Incorrect, except if it was the start of a story, " One day I was eating with my friend during college, when an armed guy came up to us." BUT did you ever run on the highway? Yes, I used to run on the highway in the old days. (An action that started and continued in the past, but is no longer being done.) = Imparfait. One more thing about the future tense: In English language, there is no such thing as "I will have eaten", it is "I would have eaten" instead. Thanks a lot for your video.
I'm from Sri Lanka...I'm studying french language for my advance level examination...These tenses were the biggest problem for me...Thank you so much help me to solve it ❤
Excellent!! The best explanation ever, especially with showing it on the time-line board. Genuis. I have always struggled with this, and now your awesome video explained it all. Un monde de remerciment!
Maybe you struggled because you did not know them in English to start☝️
@@Jmp2ba no need to be an ass about it
We all have a learning style and the timeline is a helpful model for this visual learner. Thank you, Alexa
SAME!! Merci beacoup! :)
You make a complex topic so simple & fun. You are so charismatic & talented. Thanx so much
french learners relax, i am a native french myself and i have to watch this for a basic french test at school lol
Le futur antérieur est compliqué à placer en vrai quand on est natif.
Le passé simple est parti dans une autre dimension tellement il est loin dans le passé et peu utilisé. Genre le passé antérieur 😅
J'ai lu que les françaises doivent deux les dictionnaires, un pour les mots, et un autre pour la grammaire. Cela semble plus et plus vrai comme j'apprends plus et plus du français 😅
@@totally_not_a_bot C'est pire que cela. En France, on ne lit même plus les dictionnaires, et on fait tous BEAUCOUP de fautes tous les jours. Donc ne vous inquiétez pas trop si vous faite des erreurs en Français, c'est rien, nous aussi 😅
@@medhinicoux2446 Merci 😂
Damn!😂 that so cheerful!
I went to 10 years of french school, and no one... NO ONE has ever explained it this well to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
same I've been learning French for 6 years in school and no one ever explained it like this
Are french student?
Honestly same here LOL
I've been learning since a year but one of my friend who is learning from 8 years , says that she doesn't know anything except for bonjour and aurevoir even though she's learning from 1st grade.
REPOST!!
I had 4 years of French and never properly understood some of the tenses. This explanation using the timeline is so helpful! Thank you!
These Tenses are the same in English. Of course, if you don’t know them in English, you also won't know them in French☝️
Did you know them in English before learning them in French? That might be the problem.
I had 19 years of french and just now I understand that thanks teacher
I almost drop learning french just cuz these tenses
@@Jmp2ba Hey, i'm a native english speaker, and i never understood the french tenses because tehy were handed on high when we were taught. Why does PQP com before PC? never hear so. What even *is* PQP? it was not explained
This timeline is incredibly useful. As I study French, I refer back to this timeline. As a visual learner, it helps tremendously to be able to SEE the relationship between the different tenses. Thank you for putting this together.
Same! Im a visual learner and this was TRULY helpful!
visual learners unite!
Merci. J’ai commencé mes études de français il y a 40 ans et j’ai développé un amour pour la langue.
@@davidcalderwood4131 Notre langue commune n'est pas exclusive au Metropole Europeien. Senghor a enrichi la langue de Moliere d'une
maniere digne en explorant la negritude.
I am learning French at school and find this video incredibly helpful. It's so much easier to see the tenses all compared this way rather than separate! Thank you very much.
EXACTLY!
I have to listen more than once and take notes. And then repeat out loud each verb tense.
I totally agree.
LOVE your use of timeline and colors to represent the different tenses! Excellent visualization of this complex concept. My only tiny tip is to explain that the term "perfect/parfait" doesn't have its usual meaning of "without flaws" but in the context of verb conjugation it means "complete." Explaining this to my own language learners helped them to embed an understanding that tenses like "past perfect" were actions *completed* in the past, or "Future perfect" was action that will have been completed in the future. Thank you so much for such a clear, beautiful and precise video!
This is by far the best French lesson I've ever had... thank you so much for your hard work this was such an ingenious way of showing how tenses change.
Wow, thank you!
verb tenses are the biggest things holding me back from leaving my French A2 plateau and entering the B level. i always get them mixed up or just forget them. having the visual along with the thoughtful explanations helped so much! this video was SO helpful, i paused and took notes as i watched and had so many "aha!" moments! merci beaucoup!!!
You explained something my teachers could not explain for years within a few minutes. Thank you
Are you french student?
I am a retired Montessori elementary teacher. This is exactly how grammar is presented in Montessori education - with a timeline; in the native tongue, English. It is actually taught at at the 9-12 age in the context of the child's first language with the purpose of the child being able to utilize this understanding when learning other languages. It is a good example of how Montessori education lays the foundation for future learning. Until I learned it in Montessori training, I had never seen it presented in this manner. At the time, and in your video, I found it very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
I am a french native speaker from Canada and i have to say that i'vr never had a teacher explain tenses that well to me, good job Alexa!!
Are you presently taking English lessons somewhere?
@@Marcoosianism yes I am!
@@Nothing-dk1xh I was replying to "Recalled", but nice!
I learned more about English grammar during my high school French classes than I ever did from my English teachers. 🤷♀️
I would pay money for a nice quality poster of this timeline! It's fantastic and so clearly explains the time relationships and verb tenses. 💡🙏🏻👍🏻
I can send you the full graphic if you’d like to email us Kimberly!
@@learnfrenchwithalexa thank you so much for this visual! Please is it possible to also get the graphic? Thanks a lot for all you do to make french easier. I have been learning French 'forever!' and am still struggling. English speaker, now living in Montreal...but I will not give up :)
@@learnfrenchwithalexa I would love too to have that graphic. Could you send me as well ??
I am an English teacher myself, and my knowledge of French is extremely limited, and to be honest I just clicked on the video out of curiosity, I didn't know any tense of French, but after your explanation, and because you compared them to the English tenses, I understood to perfection, at least the basics of how the tenses work in French and their equivalences in English. I know that many people have already said this but, you are an excellent professeure, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge to the world.
You're the 1st French teacher I've ever known who uses a verb timeline other than myself! Amazing video! I have added the link for this video to my timeline handout for my students to watch. I use your videos A LOT with my FSL students. TOP prof!
Seeing the timeline mapped out makes this so much clearer - SO helpful! Merci beaucoup :)
Thank you very much Alexa. Just to show my gratitude. I started learning French with your videos in 2019. And now, I'm glad to annonce my fluency in the language... Je vous suis très reconnaissant pour votre rôle remarquable dans mon apprentissage de la langue française. Que Dieu vous donne la grâce nécessaire et suffisante pour continuer toujours à faire du bien pour le bien-être de l'humanité. Merci infiniment.
De rien ... et félicitations ! 👏 👏 😄
writing is not good Alexa, please change hand writing
We're about to travel back to a French country and this video was the best revision for me since I was a little kid from 4th grade! Wish me luck 🙏 I hope I can finish school in French after all these years I spent in an English school! ❤❤❤ 😊
I taught basic French but I am going to France in about a month and need to brush up on verb tenses. It has been a lifelong struggle as French verb tenses are so perplexing! This tutorial and chart are AMAZING. MERCI BEAUCOUP ALEXA!!!
I always say "If you got an excellent teacher you will learn it easily!" You explained the tenses in a short and precise way and showed graphics for visual learners - outstanding! Thank you so much Alexa!
I left the video to do my law assignment, but my cat stayed and she now knows the French verbs and tenses, so thank you very much!
This video is super useful for breaking down french conjugation. I was born and live in Quebec, am considered an English Quebecer and these concepts were instilled from an early age. Especially through the Bescherelle. You don't need all of the tenses but the Present, Futur, Passe and Imparfait. Most of my foundation is based on my time in french school and being around the language for so long. It takes some getting used to. But don't feel bad, even native French speakers have trouble passing language exams here. It's just a matter of understanding the basics. Also, French speakers appreciate the effort, so don't be shy!
Didnt even understand these tenses in english which made it harder at school. Thanks for clarifying!
MILLIONS TIMES THANK YOU!
I just finish my second semester in my career (foreing languajes) and I suffered so hard in French, the french tenses made me cry a lot because everyone could memorized everything but I couldn't understand anything, I though I was bad at french, but thank to you I know how can I start again, merci!
What a really helpful video I’ve ever waited for .. it simplifies the most difficult part in learning French ❤️ 🇫🇷 and in ONLY ten minutes. I can’t thank enough teacher Alexa ❤️❤️
A big thanks from all of my heart ❤️
And we are waiting for more .. as we also find the regular and irregular verbs another difficulty that we suffer from..
This is definitely, extremely helpful for me! as an mandarin speaker learning French it is difficult to come to a timeline for verb conjugation like this since the concepts of time are distinctly different, and I have never seen any other french teachers teaching these concepts through such a clear explanation and visual presentation. Thank you so much!
Wow, thank you so much !! I am very glad my videos are helping you! 🥰
This helps a lot. All I need to do now is actively use all tenses to have burned into my brain!
Very useful but how do you burn it into your brain? Please tell me too! 🌻
@@keenan0700 Practice.
I just started learning French and you have been a savior! Thank you so much for such amazing videos!
The most helpful video on RUclips for all new french learners
My first viewing of your videos , WOW ! We have a French film club that shows films from all periods of film making. I read the subtitles , but those who understand French always get the jokes and dramatic turn of events quicker, a double ripple of laughter , sighing , and crying. My school tried to teach me French from eight years old , and gave up when I was fourteen. My father was excellent at languages , but I do not think the language gene was passed on to me. Your video has aroused my interest in learning French , thank you.
This timeline example was extremely useful. I've never seen it explained this way and it makes so much sense! Thanks!
I am just starting to lay the basic framework of understanding of French. The timeline is the best explanation of the French tenses that I have seen. I am going to practice a number of verbs in every tense. Thanks!
Well, in real french we use présent, futur and imparfait, passé simple just in books. In termes of mode, indicative, imperative, conditional (if condition) and subjonctive mainly after conjunction introduced by que. There are 3 kinds of verb according to the "stem": in E, in I and zero one (sa called 3rd group). Last letters are regular e-es-e for the ER (E group) + 2 or 3 in IR, otherwise it's s-s-t or x-x-t with verbs in OIR. The endings of present tense are partially irregular with some 8 verbs (avoir, être, aller, faire, dire etc... vous êtes, faîtes, dîtes and ils sont, vont, font and so on). Really suppletive forms occurs with avoir, être and aller, just learn them) and the irregularities met in other tense or modes are mainly with the same verbs + those in OIR. About the 3rd group, the point is to remember which consonannt will "link" the plural forms. It can be S (pronounced Z), SS, Y. Some 3 or 4 unregular cases here with forms in N (preNons - preNNent), V (buVons - boiVent) and so. Pay attention to vowel changes due to the position of the stress on the last syllable (pEUx - pouvONs). Nothing scaring, even french people can speak french... Have a nice day!
that's really confusing, like most French textbooks! Alexa made it nice and simple to understand so that's what I'm going to follow
Thank you for sharing that. It brings such clarity...grammar notwithstanding!
This is an excellent explanation of tenses. Best ever! Thank you!
Thank you so much! 😄
You are a genius! This explanation will go a long way to help many struggling students of French globally.
Merci beaucoup! 😁
Crystal clear. Learn french for 1 year now, not yet seen something so clearly explained.🤩
Super helpful since it’s been years since I took French in college. And this makes me remember, like a refresher course 🤓 Merci Alexa
A refresher is always a good idea!
I’m just getting started learning French but have studied Spanish and Italian. This was so helpful seeing all the configurations in one place, thank you!
Vous avez m'enseigner plus formes de verbes en 10 minutes que mon professeur en 4 ans !
Exactement. 😂
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@@spikefivefivefive Vous m'avez enseigné plus en conjugaison en 10 minutes que mon professeur en 4 ans ( le problème est que le Français est une langue très précise ) bon courage
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Another level of organization (along with this timeline) which has helped me is to group these 10 tenses into 4 groups related by structure.
Group 1 - Imparfait / Presént / Futur simple
Je mangeais / Je mange / Je mangerai
(I used to eat) / (I eat) / (I will eat)
(I was eating) / (I am eating) / (I will be eating)
The structures are related as they are Pronoun + Conjugated Verb.
Group 2 - Plus-que-parfait / Passé composé / Futur anterieur
J'avais mangé / J'ai mangé / J'aurai mangé
(I had eaten) / (I have eaten) or (I ate) / (I will have eaten)
The structures are related as they are Pronoun + Conjugated Auxiliary Verb (avoir or être) + Past Participle of the verb.
Group 3 - Passé récent / Present progressive / Futur proche
Je viens de manger / Je suis en train de manger / Je vais manger
(I have just eaten) / (I am currently eating) / (I am going to eat)
The structures are related as they are Pronoun + stuff + Infinitive of the Verb
Group 4 - Imperatif
Mange / Mangez / Mangeons
(singular) / (plural) / (we)
Have I over simplified this? Does this hold up in general? Curious as to what others think.
It was the most glamorous explanation for the ease of understanding I've ever seen. You always push me forward to learn without giving up this complex language. Thank you so much, Alexa.🙏🙏🙏
As a Spanish speaker. It made sense because we have the same tenses. Thank you 😊
Best vidéo EVER! ❤️🇨🇵💕 I can use this for my Spanish and English students as well! Tu es magnifique ! 😘
This is the most helpful explanation I've ever seen for french verb tenses. Thank you !!
That was the most helpful, easy-to-understand explanation of French tenses I have ever seen!! I love the graphic timeline!! That visual is so effective in visualizing the tenses. You did an amazing job!!
I've just started learning french (26days ago) and this helps me to have an overview of the different perceptions of time in french... and you explained it great! tkx!
Alexa, your cheerful explanations and examples have helped us understand more the minute differences among different tenses. They are very helpful. keep up the good work. Love your channel. Already subscribed.
Passé composé was what we learned in high-school French, it's too bad that none of us understood what exactly it meant. Plus, more focus on conversation would have been so helpful! Merci beaucoup, Alexa!
I never understood the tenses and this is very helpful! Although I'm kinda confused between some verbs' uses especially that I'm not a native English speaker but I'll look up the rest of your videos! Thank you very much :)
This is by far the best explanation available to define the crux of how tense structure works in French language. This helps me to clarifies the verb forms to be used when I'm thinking in English and converting the sentence in French. My native language is Hindi. I studied English as a second language and wanted to learn french as well, this has been helpful .
This was indeed more than useful and helpful. In addition to this video being useful, your teaching method est vraiment adorable. And this makes You quite a Darling Lady!
J'adore le chronologie! What a great way to understand the tenses that are so confusing to language learners. You have a great video that I keep coming back to whenever I am brushing up. C'est magnifique!
Ce n'est pas présenté comme on l'apprend à l'école mais je pense que c'est plus synthétique et plus clair. Merci.
ca depend de l'ecole. J'ai appris l'anglais avec ce genre de lignes temporelles
@@turnipsociety706 mais j’ai appris le français à L’école depuis 7 ans et je vais continuer avec la langue au l’université, au cours de ces 7 années, Mes professeurs n'ont pas autant aidé que cette vidéo. J’ai du mal avec l’imparfait pour la plupart et mes profs n’ont pas aidé mais, maintenant, je comprends le temps et je peux étudier et réviser pour mes examens. Désolé pour mon français, comme j’ai dit, je suis anglais donc ce n’est pas parfait. Je kiffe la langue et l’étudie des langues donc je vais continuer et apprendre💪
3 years of high school French (merci, Mme Simon!) and 55 years of reading. I’ve come across the 'recent' tenses but always thought of them as idiomatic expressions rather than formal tenses, so thank you for that.
Ça dépend. J'enseigne le français depuis six ans maintenant, et j'ai toujours utilisé une ligne du temps. C'est plus logique. Maintenant que j'ai trouvé cette vidéo, je vais pouvoir l'utiliser pour les révisions. C'est clair et concis. En classe, il faut souvent s'arrêter pour répondre aux questions. Et ça, ça complique un peu les choses.
Oui, this video is immensely helpful. Just to have as a guide in front of me while I try to speak in full sentences this is amazing and all one one page. No flipping between units or study sheets! Merci beacoup!
Merci beaucoup, Cette leçon était vraiment instructive
Just loved the way she put… « It is still a past tense, but in the future » 😂❤
Such a great teacher who explains everything precisely while making learning fun with an amazing sense of humour…
Merci . Tu es intelligente . I am a jss3 student and no one has explained this like you . Merci , au reviour et merci . I used my mum's phone to watch this video, tu vrai intelligente
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I find myself using j'aurais more as a 'past-future' tense than as future perfect.
And it took me about a decade of immersion schooling to internalize what you explained perfectly in 10 minutes. C'est genial!
Thank you so much. This is brilliant and makes things so clear in my mind.
Wonderful! 👏
Hello Alexa. Where have you been all my life!!!! I have just tumbled upon your video. But believe me, you now have a new follower...... I am a very visual person and this timeline helps me enormously. As another follower indicates below, a picture paints a thousand words! I have been in France for many years and speak French quite well, but I have never studied French per se and I have faulted with French tenses for a long time. Your explanations are very clear and your energy and clarity are excellent. Thank you so much. I now have a French teacher! Maureen from Paris.
This timeline is extremely helpful. Many things clicked and will help in developing a plan on how to study and practice.
A very useful idea to show where the tenses occur on a timeline. When I took French in school we never studied the plus-que-parfait, futur proche or futur anterieur (but I heard of them because I saw them in tables providing conjugations of verbs in all the tenses) so I never knew what they were used for. And I never heard of the passe recent, futur proche, or present progressif at all (except for the last one which I heard of recently when I began studying Spanish). In school we mainly studied the present, passe compose, imparfait, conditional, and futur (which you call the futur simple). You did a good job of explaining what various tenses are used for. Edit: Another tense we didn't study in school is the passe simple but I was aware of it because I saw it in verb conjugation tables.
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I have studied French for three years in school but I can hardly use French verbs but you have taught me well
Thank you very much for a wonderful explanation ☺️
Genius! You have cut through so much confusion and frustration with this handy reference timeline. I have never seen anything explained so clearly, it should be in every French language textbook. I copied this lesson and saved it to my favorites at the top of the page for ease of access as I plan on going over and over this lesson and the others that you mentioned.
Thank you so much.
bro this woman is carrying me through GCSE French so easily shes a tremendous help !!!!!!!! thank you from the bottom of my heart madame alexa
I studied French for 6 years in school and this all went over my head. I lived in Nice for two years and learned all this by swimming in the deep end…. Not even realizing all these complex conjugations. Good representation of the various tenses
This is so well-explained! I learned French in school from elementary through high school and no one explained the various tenses this clearly. I’m brushing up on my French and this really helped. Merci beaucoup!
Another very common way to represent a continuous action in French is by using "Faire" in a rather specific construction.
It's a rather complex construction '"cela + faire (conjugated at 3rd person singular) + a duration + que + verb at indicative" (or + subjonctive if "faire" is using a conditional tense but that is way way less common)
Cela fait des heures que j'attends.
I have been waiting for hours
Cela faisait des heures que j'attendais (lorsque tu es arrivé)
I had been waiting for hours (when you arrived)
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As in English, the present can be used for a timeless truth.
Je ne mange pas de viande
--> I don't eat meat
--> I'm a vegetarian
And you can use the imparfait for a truth in the past:
- je ne mangeais pas de viande (à l'époque)
--> I didn't eat meat (back then)
--> (Back then,) I was a vegetarian.
As in English, you can use the present tense for many future actions:
- Je pars demain
--> I leave tomorrow
This presentation demonstrates how my first language French influenced my English language usage.
I have tried to extract this from French teachers in the past to no avail. Thank you so much; I am now quite excited about learning more from you.
I used to be a Spanish teacher, and this is how I explained the tenses to my Spanish students. I am studying French by myself, and I found this very helpful!
Merci. I am just starting to revise my French learnt 30 years ago. This was so useful!
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I had many confusions😢 on the French tenses. This video is very useful and clear. Thanks a lot!!
This is great! I'm doing Duolingo, but I like seeing rules mapped out in one place like this to better understand the WHY vs just memorizing. I am so glad I found this!
Your timeline is genius! I got a lot from this video than from any that I’ve seen on this topic. Bravo!!
I had a French lesson 5 days a week for 5 years at school, and some of those tenses I never even heard of. I left school not even able to make simple conversation, and totally unable to understand a native speaker, and I was actually near the top of my class. There was so much basic stuff I was never taught. I see now what I was missing from you and other apps I follow like Duolingo. You're the best though. I wish I had you as a teacher back then.
Thank you for sharing this timeline! It’s been 30+ years since my French classes and this made all the difference. Now, I really want to re-learn the French skills that I lost in said 30+ years. 😂
Thanks for the video! It is helping in my native English, Spanish and French!
Many assume that because we're native English speakers, we don't struggle with the English grammar!
Thank you, the best timeline ever, something I really struggled with as tenses not taught at school.
Just to re-iterate what all the comments have already said, this is so incredibly well explained, and the visual of the timeline was such a great tool for me to learn personally. And in 10 minutes! Thank you so much for the work you do, especially making learning french so accessible and fun!
This is a great representation of the verb tenses! I learned more about French and it made me miss my days of studying linguistics... Thank you!
Studying Latin unlocked my own English grammar for me. Only when I understood English grammar (moods, voice, tenses, etc.,) was I able to effectively study French. I use timelines to teach my Latin students. This was an excellent model!
Spanish is my first language so to me, it makes more sense to think about French tenses in Spanish rather than English! Really cool!
I have been studing french for some months, and this is the best class i had! Clear and strict to the point! Congrats Alexa!!!
Short, precise, clear and pleasant. thank you! Great video!
I recently earned my certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and the instructors used the timeline, which was helpful. Unfortunately, English has, like, 18 tenses so that timeline got pretty crowded! This video was really helpful.
As a French speaker trying to improve my English that video is a gem 💎. Best of both worlds because I can review both my French and make some parallels with English tenses 💯
It makes me work on the parallel English tenses while reviewing
Quelle explication fantastique!! J’ai étudié le français depuis 27 ans mais jamais vu une explication si claire! Merci merci merci!
THANK U SO MUCH! I have been struggling so much in French. After I graduated I am homeschooling for 1 year with your teaching. It has been the best year!! tu es la meilleur professeur du monde!! Mon prof de français, son enseignement est comme de la merde
An amazing 👏 teacher that I have seen . I am very good at french reading because of her .she has intelligent skills to teach french language
It’s much much clearer to me now since in alliance Français didn’t explains to me what’s the purpose of equivalent in English they just taught me how to conjugate verbs only that’s it
Without deep understanding of that
Thanks for your big help
9:37 - This Timeline was Helpful and This can be Used for My Revision. Also the Colours make it Interactive :)
Wow this is the clearest timeline to differentiate all the tenses I never understood since high school.
I'm glad RUclips sugested your channel to me. You have such a direct and clear explanation.
Greatest long-term memory method of explanation for french language verb tenses that I've seen until now, using this guide timeline.
I just wanted to make it clear that in English "I used to eat"...is not like "I was eating" at all in meaning or in timing and duration.
"I used to" is exactly the imparfait, but "I was eating" means that you have to specify an exact time for when you were doing it. What were you doing last weekend at that restaturant? I was eating. What were you doing yesterday at the parlor? I was eating. You cannot however by all means say, "I was eating with my friend during college." Incorrect, except if it was the start of a story, " One day I was eating with my friend during college, when an armed guy came up to us."
BUT did you ever run on the highway? Yes, I used to run on the highway in the old days. (An action that started and continued in the past, but is no longer being done.) = Imparfait.
One more thing about the future tense: In English language, there is no such thing as "I will have eaten", it is "I would have eaten" instead.
Thanks a lot for your video.
Why is there no such thing? I will have eaten by the time you arrive. Are you saying that is improper English grammar?
I'm from Sri Lanka...I'm studying french language for my advance level examination...These tenses were the biggest problem for me...Thank you so much help me to solve it ❤