One difference between english and french is the use of masculine and feminine nouns. In french, every noun has a gender and must be learned this way. Along with this, the adjectives must agree with the noun they modify in gender. Another difference is the endings of verbs for different persons. In english, I run, you run, we run, they all run. In french, cours, cours, courons, courent. These are the most basic grammatical differences between french and english, but since I know spanish fairly well I won’t have much difficulty in picking up on these differences.
I plan on continuing to learn more and more vocabulary and phrases in french and hope that I have the grammar knowledge I need to understand and construct the language. I’ve been using Duolingo, which has grammar notes along with all of the lessons which I have been using as I go along to get a better grasp on the specifics of the language. I don’t think I will need to use a reference grammar for my learning, simply because the grammar differences are slight and few.
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