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A Short Course in Reading French
Celia Brickman
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A Short Course in Reading French
Celia Brickman
About This Book
This textbook teaches the basics of French grammar, reinforcing its lessons with exercises and key practice translations. A systematic guide, the volume is a critical companion for university-level students learning to read and translate written French into English; for graduate scholars learning to do research in French or prepping for proficiency exams; and for any interested readers who want to improve their facility with the French language. In addition, A Short Course in Reading French exposes readers to a broad range of French texts from the humanities and social sciences, including writings by distinguished francophone authors from around the world.
The book begins with French pronunciation and cognates and moves through nouns, articles, and prepositions; verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; a graduated presentation of all the indicative and subjunctive tenses; object, relative, and other pronouns; the passive voice; common idiomatic constructions; and other fundamental building blocks of the French language. Chapters contain translation passages from such authors as Pascal, Montesquieu, Proust, Sartre, Bourdieu, Senghor, CĂ©saire, de Certeau, de Beauvoir, Barthes, and Kristeva. Drawn from more than two decades of experience teaching French to students from academic and nonacademic backgrounds, Celia Brickman's clear, accessible, and time-tested format enables even beginners to develop a sophisticated grasp of the language and become adept readers of French.
There is an answer key for translation exercises and for non-copyrighted translation passages available to professors and teachers who have assigned this title in a class. Please provide your name, title, institution, and number of students in the course in an email to [email protected].
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masculine singular definite article: | le |
feminine singular definite article: | la |
alternative singular definite article: | lâ |
masculine and/or feminine plural definite article: | les |
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Table of contents
- CoverÂ
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- ContentsÂ
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1.  Nouns, Articles, and Prepositions, and the Principle of Agreement
- 2.  Verbs, Subject Pronouns, and the Present Tense/PrĂ©sent De lâIndicatif
- 3.  Adjectives and Adverbs
- 4.  Reflexive Verbs
- 5.  The Imperfect/lâImparfait
- 6.  Past Participles/Les Participes Passés
- 7.  Le Passé Composé/The Compound Past
- 8.  Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
- 9.  Additional Forms of the Negative
- 10.  More Irregular Yet Common Verbs
- 11.  Impersonal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns, Impersonal Verbs, and an Introduction to the Word QUE
- 12.  The Future and Conditional Tenses/Le Futur Simple et le Conditionnel
- 13.  Present Participles and Imperatives
- 14.  The Passive Voice
- 15.  Le Passé Simple/The simple Past, or the Past Historic
- 16.  Relative and Interrogative Pronouns and Adjectives
- 17.  More Compound Tenses
- 18.  The Causative FAIRE
- 19.  Le Subjonctif/The Subjunctive
- 20.  Modal Verbs and Other Common Idiomatic Verbal Constructions
- 21.  Changes of Tense with Idioms of Time
- 22.  Common Idiomatic Expressions
- 23.  Configurations of the Infinitive
- 24.  Some Verb Families
- 25.  Further Translation Passages
- Appendix
- Index