Bonjour ,

If you go down to the 🌳 🌳 🌳  'woulds' (woods) today, you're in for a big surprise...you'll meet a bear wearing pearls - all will become clear once you learn to see the woods for the trees. Read on...

This is the 'Would, Could, Should' course - with a bit of 'Would've, Could've, Should've' course. Try saying these sentences in French if you can:

• I would take a parasol if I were you. ⛱️
• We could buy them some flowers. 💐
• You should take an umbrella. ☂️

or

• Julien would've hired a car if he'd remembered to bring his driving permit. 🚙
• They could've played table tennis. 🏓
• Monique should've bought the tickets in advance. 🎟️

Conditional Mood

The fancy pants👖 grammatical terms for 'would/could/should' is the conditional mood. The character who will help you to remember how to use the conditional is, wait for it.... voici

Connie Conditional. Because the conditional is all about possibilities - the world is your oyster - she wears a necklace made of pearls which represent all those possibilities, those pearls in the oysters. The conditional is about what would/could/should be possible. 

Conditional Perfect

Then the fancy pants 👖  grammatical term for 'would've/could've/should've' is called the conditional perfect. 

You've done the present perfect - where you used the present tense of avoir/être + past participle - J'ai dormi. 'I have slept.' 😴

You've done the pluperfect where you used the - imperfect tense of avoir/être + past participle. J'avais dormi. 'I had slept.' 😴

Now with the conditional perfect you'll use the - conditional mood of avoir/être + past participle. J'aurais dormi. 'I would've slept.' 😴

Connie Conditional loves to pair up with Mlle Zen 🧘🏾‍♀️  who represents the imperfect tense. So be sure to have a good idea of how to form the imperfect and the pluperfect for more French fluency. I have chosen the order of the courses very carefully. If you've done the previous courses they will help with this one.

If all that grammar talk is scary 😱 - fear not I shall guide you through with downright silliness to help you with the trickier bits. You'll be juggling French verbs in different tenses - you will drop a fair few balls but with practice you'll drop less and less. 🤹

‘My first venture into on-line learning and what a pleasant surprise. Cecile brings the subject to life and her enthusiasm for French shines through in her use of memorable and fun examples, illustrated in a highly visual way. A very engaging teacher who manages to bring the subject to life and make it real - a million miles away from the dusty French I remember from lessons in the past. Merci.’ Andrew Glynn

What you get:

• Over 7 hours of video in total (you can revisit them as often as you need to) 📹
• Written summaries (you don't even have to lift a pen if you don't want to) 📄
• Practice questions with the answers (to see what you've remembered and where the gaps are) ✍🏾
• French songs (with lyrics and translations - powerful way to learn) 🎶
• Games (to make learning fun - it's not just kids who benefit from playing!) 🎲

The conditional and the conditional perfect will upgrade your French to ça alors level! Watch the eyebrows of your French speaker raise as you slip in a bit of Connie Conditional into your comedy French conversation. You'll be able to quietly smile to yourself as you impress the locals with your swanky French. 😁

This course will add a bit of ✨  bling ✨  and sparkle to your conversations - so get ready with your French diamonds 💍  and pearls. Whether you're listening to French or reading it, you'll understand a big chunk more - you'll do mental 🤸🏾‍♀️  cartwheels with the feeling of pleasure 🤸🏾‍♀️ that comprehension brings. If that sounds exciting to you mon ami - plongez - dive in! You will be so happy you did. I'm excited for you! 

CécileBB :-)