French Professor

You have been drilling verb tables and memorizing lists of food vocabulary. You can order a croissant and ask for directions. But when you open a real French conversation, the words you need are missi…

You have been working hard on your French. You can conjugate regular verbs. You know the difference between passé composé and imparfait. Then you land in Paris, and a friend says, “C’est ouf, j’suis c…

You are staring at a list of French verb tenses and feeling your brain short circuit. Passé composé or imparfait? Futur simple or conditionnel présent? The problem is not that French has too many tens…

You have stared at conjugation tables until your eyes glazed over. You have memorized the endings for *passé composé*, only to freeze when you need to describe what you *used to do*. The problem is no…

You already know enough French to hold a conversation. You can conjugate most verbs. You understand gendered nouns. But when you speak, something feels off. The words come out choppy, disconnected, li…

You see a French word like “eau” and your brain freezes. The spelling looks nothing like English. You wonder if you will ever pronounce it correctly. Take a breath. French pronunciation is actually mo…

You have been studying French for a while. You know your present tense, your passé composé, and maybe even the imparfait. Then someone says “il faut que…” and your brain freezes. The subjunctive mood …

You have tried the verb charts. You have stared at conjugation tables until your eyes glazed over. And still, when you try to speak, the grammar slips away like sand through your fingers. This is not …

You’ve tried conjugating verbs from a table. You’ve repeated “à, au, aux, de, du, des” until your eyes crossed. But the moment you try to form a sentence, your brain freezes. French grammar feels like…

Learning French as an American comes with its own set of challenges. Your brain wants to default to English logic, and French often works differently. That is completely normal. The good news is that …