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In English, there is a concrete grammatical structure. In a simple sentence, you have the subject, the verb, and the predicate. Of course, this changes as we get into more …
Je voudrais un café s’il vous plaît. I would like a coffee please. This sentence in French uses the conditional tense. Voudrais is the conditional tense of the verb vouloir …
I’m French and grew up in a very small village in the French countryside. At home, at school and everywhere around me we spoke only French, and yet I’m fluent …
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