Okay, main, main, and we are live I think. Are we live? No?
We are live. Okay, bonjour tout le monde. A bit of a crazy, you know, that's the thing with Liam and I when we realize we've just made a mistake five minutes before going live and you think, oh dear, can we fix it?
But... Every problem can be fixed, I think, somehow. Do you believe that, Liam?
Yeah. Yeah, he believes. Even in private lives, do you think every problem can be fixed?
Yeah, if you call Adam. Okay, bonjour tout le monde. Hello.
I'm just trying to have some time, or, you know, get some time here because... We did not announce the live. Bonjour.
We did not announce the live. It was unlisted. We realized that the video was unlisted while it's open to all. So I did do some publicity just now on Instagram. As you know, we have 171,000 followers on Instagram.
We have nearly 300,000 followers on TikTok. We are, well, I think on Facebook, 350,000. I don't know. Anyway.
So I'm very proud of this and proud of my team for having achieved such a high number. So all in all, we are topping the two million followers everywhere, which is really, really cool. Anyway, bonsoir, bonjour. Jen, look, people, stop comments.
Alexa misses my comments. No, I haven't. I can see it. It's like Jen. Jen Luca is like frustrated because actually the comments are going so fast that I can't see.
Yes, I can see you. Okay, I can see you. Thank you, Helen. Yes, this is quite an achievement that we've topped, you know, two point something million followers. And it's a win to my superb team.
I have a team of very, very clever people. And you know, the best way that they make me look good this because you know I'm surrounding myself with very intelligent people I always say that you know it's not all my doing it's definitely the doing of some very clever people surrounding me anyway thank you Despioner now this is an open live it's a lesson but it's open to everybody the next lesson at 1 30 is just an exclusive live which means that that you exclusive to people that are paying access to this, i.e. my website subscribers, you know, LearnFrenchWithAlexa.com or the people that have subscribed through the membership on YouTube. OK, good work needs teamwork.
Yes, absolutely. And I've always believed that. So if you're a young entrepreneur out there, you have to believe in your team.
And you've got to listen to them because they will come up with ideas. It can't be just you. And you've got to accept that is. Your business has to be their business and they've got to, you know, take it upon their stride and be proud of their business.
So, Alison, thank you for your incredible course. Three years ago, I didn't speak French. I didn't know how to speak French, but now I can speak more French. I can speak French more. I tell you, Alison, well done you.
Very, very, very proud of you. OK, we are going to start. I have done enough small chats. you know small chatting i'm going to do something of a revision and if you are of b1 b2 level you might find this well actually the right level if you're a little higher than that you might find this a little boring but hey try to make it exciting on your side i don't know how but anyway bonjour elizabeth gilbert bonjour petit bavardage yeah small talk i don't know what it's called uh in french actually uh small talk Ah, I tell you what we say, parler de la pluie et du beau temps, to talk about the rain and the beautiful weather. Je parle de la pluie et du beau temps, it's your equivalent to small talk.
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OK, now, Jethala, Jethala. No, stop. Jethala. No, wait.
I can't pronounce their name. Don't don't give me the answers. Don't give me the answers because I've got to do many lessons first. Right.
Don't don't give me the answers yet. What we are going to do is have a look at the. passé composé and we are going to have a look at filling this in but first of all listen listen really really uh sorry jeta lal thank you pograj jeta lal please do not give us the answer because that's not fair on the people wanting to try to do it by themselves okay uh jeta hal tarak meta okay sorry i'm not sure what that means out there i don't speak here Hindi, so I don't know. Okay, is the name of a great TV character? Oh, I see, right, okay, I wouldn't know, I wouldn't know.
Okay, I see that, yeah, some people are laughing, and I can't laugh because I have no cultural reference whatsoever. Okay, so here we go. Le passé composé, c'est quoi? So when I talk about the passé composé, it's a tense, and...
as it says in the name, it's a past tense, okay? So it's a past tense that is used to talk about an action finished by the time you talk about it. For example, you would say, I drank tea this morning.
And because you are giving me a timeline, it was this morning, okay, or yesterday, I drank tea. It's an action that has taken place and is gone and done over with, okay? So by the time you talk about it. it's already done. Okay?
Now how do you form the passé composé? Now it's in the word. Passé is passed and composé is composed.
It's composed of two things. So you've got your subject pronoun, okay, plus an auxiliary plus a past participle. So in English it would be I have taken, for example. So let's have a look.
I is a subject pronoun. okay that's a subject then the auxiliary is have and the past participle is taken and it comes from the infinitive to take yeah we agree on that okay so you do pretty much the same in French it's a past tense okay you either use être as an auxiliary to be and this is a the way you conjugate it je suis tu es il est on est Nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont, elles sont. And this is the present tense.
Yeah, the present. So when you are going to compose the passé composé, you will compose it with the present tense of this auxiliary. OK, so to have is I have, present, I have. But as soon as you add the past participle to it, it becomes a past tense. Same in French.
OK, so here we go. Euh... Avoir? J'ai? Tu as, il, elle, on a, nous avons, vous avez, ils, elles ont.
So that's the present tense of avoir. So what you would do, depending on the verb you use, you would say for example ate. You would start with I have eaten, so j'ai, and then you need the past participle. So eaten in French is manger, that's the infinitive, you drop the R and you add an accent and here is your past participle. The hardest thing you're going to have to learn when doing a passé composé is what is the past participle of the verb you want to use.
It's not so much the selection of the auxiliary, it's What is the past participle? So let's have a look at that. Les participes passés irréguliers.
How do you form a past participle in the passé composé? Well, for any ER verbs, all you need to do is drop the R and add an accent. OK, so il a mangé, elle a mangé and so on. OK, for any I. IR verbs that belong to the second group such as choisir ou finir, ok, ou obéir, you drop the R.
Here is your passe, participe. So you would say, j'ai choisi, I have chosen. Here you would say, j'ai mangé, I have eaten. And for the third group verbs, which are the highly irregular verbs, and this is where you need, you need to learn your past participle of those irregular verbs by heart, if you want to conjugate in the passé composé. So for any of that, you have to learn that some RE verbs will end with U.
Vendre, to sell, will become vendu in its past participle. participle form. So I have sold will become j'ai vendu. I have seen will become j'ai vu. Okay, can you see that?
So, les troisièmes groupes sont très difficiles pour moi. Yann, so what I would recommend, okay, it's to learn the list and I have done a video on YouTube and in the course as well of a list of the main verbs. with their past participle. So you say prendre, prix, boire, but, vendre, vendu, apercevoir, aperçu, vouloir, voulu, etc. And I think it's about learning the top 20 verbs and understanding what they are in their past participle.
They're highly irregular. Oh, you've got it, Liam, have you? Yeah. Gosh, you're good.
Liam is good. See, I told you, surround myself with clever people. Anyway, the more you listen, the more right the verb sounds. It's just learning them. Ali, absolutely.
You learn them. Absolutely, Ali. It's about that.
It's about repetitions as well. And yeah. Alex, I'm from Armenia. Can you say, hi, Armenia? Bonjour, Al-Armeni.
Hi, Armenia. Okay. But when do you know whether you use être ou avoir? You know, a lot of the time, this is very difficult. Well, you would, and I'm sorry, that's my telephone.
I should have switched it off. Either have a verb use avoir or être. The verbs using être in a passé composé, which means je suis, tu es, il est, and then a past participle, would be verbs which are reflexives. or movement verbs. Okay.
And by movement verbs, Ali, Mrs. Vandertramp. And let's have a look at doctor and Mrs. Vandertramp. Here you go.
Look, this is the acronym that Ali is using here. Can you see that? And yes, Dr. Mrs. Vandertramp, Vanshika, absolutely. And what I've done here for you, I have added the past participle of those.
And it's way... worth watching this video again or screenshot it or get the support guide. There is a support guide with this.
You can get it if you are a member at Learn French with Alexa, the YouTube channel. Okay so devenir, revenir, monter, rester, sortir, venir, aller, naître, descendre, entrer, retourner, tomber, rentrer. arriver, mourir, partir. Ok so what's happening here I've just given you some of the verbs that take être in the passé composé and of course you've got all the reflexive verbs. Ok so with être the participle will have to agree Okay, engender a number with a subject.
So what does it mean? Well, look at what I have given you. Look at these options here.
Okay, I'm giving you the past participle here. But why do you think there is E in bracket and S in bracket or ES? Well, that's because depending on the subject we're using, you will have to add either an E if that subject is feminine or S if that subject is plural.
or ES if the subject is feminine plural. Only would you do that if you're using the auxiliary être. It doesn't happen when using the auxiliary avoir. Okay, so here's an example. Elle est allée chez sa mère ce week-end.
She went to her mother this weekend, double E, because we are talking about elle, she, and because we are using the auxiliary. to be. Okay? But for avoir, doesn't agree.
Can you see? L-A-H-E-T. There is no double E.
Why? Because we are using A as an auxiliary. Avoir. Okay.
This is a very super quick lesson. Of course, I've got hundreds more based on that topic, you know. And anyone from Finland?
Hello. Bonjour. Pardon, je suis dans ta habanique.
C'est pas grave. Well, I couldn't wait for you, Nick. I didn't know whether you would turn up. Anyway, Alexa is passé including in Dr. Mrs. Van der Tromp.
Je suis passé, j'ai passé. Ah, it can be both. Passé, you would say, passer, te voir. Je suis passé, let's have a look. Did I put passé here?
I didn't and I think that's because it can be both. It's a very good question. Je suis passé te voir. Passé, il est passé me voir. It can, yes, absolutely, be part of that list as well.
Passé, absolutely. Okay, let's have a look at the first one based on what I've just taught you. I would like you to conjugate the verb venir in the passé composé, okay, based on what you read as a subject.
Joséphine et son fils, and then you have to conjugate these infinitive verbs into the passé composé, nous voir, so we can. So, what do you think it would be here? If you were to conjugate this in the passé composé, what would it be? Now you can answer. Ja, ja.
I can't remember, I'm so sorry. Okay, this point, yeah, sont venus. Sont venus, okay.
Let's have a look at whether we have other... Sont venus, Elisabeth? Sont venus, Ali? Sont venus? Question mark.
We don't know. I'm going to explain, of course, the answer in a minute. It's a tough one. This one is the hardest one of them all, actually. Ils sont venus, Ian.
Bonjour from Uganda. Uncle Ben, bonjour à l'Uganda. Sont venus, sont venus, sont venus, très bien. Ok, so it seems like we are agreeing that the answer would be sont venus.
And of course, I wouldn't be a teacher if I were not explaining to you why it is sont venus. Now, dopka, you put es at the end. Helen, you put no, nothing. Okay, now I'm going to tell you, tell you why, why it is venue with an S.
Now, the best way for me to explain this is by going backwards. We start with venue. Okay, so let's say, this is very important, so listen really carefully. The subject is Josephine et son... Okay, now Joséphine is a lady, son fils is a boy and that will be relevant in a minute.
Okay, now the verb is venir, okay, venir, okay, to come. It is one of the movement verbs so therefore we know that we must conjugate them, this verb, with the auxiliary. Yes, go on. Être. Okay, to be.
Now let me really quickly go back to to be here. I'm going to erase that just so you can see. Which one should it be? Suis, est, est, sommes, elles, est, ou, sont.
Knowing that the pronoun The subject is Josephine and her son. Okay, is Josephine and her son I? Is Josephine and her son you?
Well, no, it's not. Is it il or elle? No, because there are two of them.
So it has to be plural. Okay, d'espoir, it's il. Definitely, it's there. Il, elle.
So il, elle, son. So let me go back here. We have to have son.
Okay. Then, venir, the past participle of venir is venu. Okay. Now, some of you have added an S to it.
Some of you have added an ES to it. Okay. This is what's happening.
You must, because we know that we have to agree the past participle with the auxiliary. Okay. We know that. Because we're using to be, we must agree in gender. a number, so based on that subject.
So we know that it is IL, okay? But there is a lady in that group, okay? And there is a boy in that group. Why isn't it EL, okay?
As in the, she. Why is it IL, okay? Well, and listen to me very carefully. When you have a lady in the group, And a man, the man takes over. And grammatically speaking is stronger.
Okay, so that's the boy is stronger. So I'm going to do a little drawing here with the biceps. Okay, I must be very careful with what I'm drawing. This is, ta-da!
Here we go. That's the boy, he's stronger. Okay, now...
So, never mind about the woman. Never mind, we've got the boy, so therefore it's there. What a caricature. So, never mind about the boy, the woman, it's there no matter what, masculine.
So, knowing this... We don't add an E. We must, however, add an S because the group, it's a group here.
So I'm going to add an S. OK, I don't know. Character open to misinterpretation. No, no, not at all.
It's a man going like this with biceps up. There is no misinterpretation anywhere else. OK, anyway. Please give me a good doubt for me.
Oh, shout. You are saying, Shani, good luck for your exam tomorrow. Anyway, so are we clear?
I'm not going to develop on these answers. You know, I'm not going to spend. As you know, I have many other lives, you know, coming up. Not many, just one.
I mean. No, I mean, I'm not sure Liam would be happy with many. I'm sure in his head he thought, what?
Okay, if it was Helen, a mother and daughter, it would be venue US. Absolutely. Yes, absolutely.
Well done, Helen. Yes, as they are both female. Gary.
Hi, I'm Francis. Is there a live learning for new beginners? Yes, Francis, if you go, if you...
are on the website as a member of the website okay and even as a member of youtube channel you will find that i provide lives for beginners i would recommend master classes rather than the live for beginners master classes are targeted so there is a link on this for master classes there is one in two days time for complete beginners and that's a speaking one that means we have a maximum of 10 in a group and you get to practice, you know, I would definitely, definitely look into that. It's a pain one, you don't need to be necessarily a subscriber of my website, you can access without even being that. How do we form questions and negatives in passé composé inclusive?
Emilia, I love that questions, but it would take me 30 minutes easily for me to explain that, so... Do you know what? We are going to make a point. I know that one of my teachers is reading, watching this.
Charlotte, if you hear me and see me, could you make a note of that question? It's a very good question. How do we form questions and negative in passé composé, including reflexive verbs?
Such a good question. So we will address that. OK, I address that in the course, of course, in details. But if you're not part of the course, Emilia, watch out for another live.
But I do address that in the course. Can't remember which lesson. OK. I'm in year 8 so my French isn't so good. Cheney, you're fine, you're fine and you've got lots of time.
Now can you do number 2? Le gardien de l'immeuble démissionné la semaine dernière. So we've got a time indicator here which is la semaine dernière, last week.
We want to say, et ne pas s'est composé, ok, et ne pas s'est composé, le gardien de l'immeuble, so the guard, the building. Concierge if you wish. Has quit. Démissionné is to quit a job. Okay?
Like to get out of your mission if you want. Last week. But how do you say has quit?
Okay. Now we have Despionne saying démissionné, a démissionné, a démissionné, a démissionné. Hi Colombia from... Hello to Colombia. A démissionné.
A... démissionner, it's absolutely that. Now this is not how... ah! Just realized I'm using the wrong color.
I promised myself I would use démissionner. Okay, now the way I have done this verb is quite simple. We know that it's an ER verb, so you drop the R and you add an accent.
We have the past participle here. However, the difficulty would be in understanding what is this subject pronoun. Le gardien de l'immeuble, the housekeeper, whatever, flat keeper.
It's he, isn't it, if you replaced it, okay? So it's il, okay? And so knowing that, knowing that we have to conjugate it with avoir, il a démissionné.
So he has démissionné. Can you see that? Landlord? No, no, no, it's not a landlord.
It's more like a concierge. What? A guardian?
A guard? I don't really have a guard, so a concierge is the person who... Yeah, the guard of the building. I usually live in the building.
Okay. It's like a concierge, right? Yeah, a concierge, but it's different here. Yeah, building secretary. In France, it's someone who lives in the building, right?
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, a concierge, it's a... They live in the bottom of a building and usually they mop the floor, the entrance floor, and look after people.
Caretaker in the UK, Helen says. It doesn't have the same effect because they usually don't live in the building like they do in France. Thanks, guys.
Helen, Gary and Ali. Like a security guard. Yes, it's like a security guard.
Janitor, janitor. Uh, now a security guard kind of. Yes, caretaker.
Okay, so let's have a look. We might actually be able to do two more like that and you can do the rest, you know, at home. And because, as you know, I've got the life at 130. Now, Ian, je recommande de devenir abonné.
Le cours est très fantastique, magnifique. Alexa est une géniale prof. Oh, Ian. Oh, la la. Can you see me blush?
Do you know what? I'm so red, not because I'm blushing but because I'm so hot under these lights. It's about 30 degrees outside and I am surrounded by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 lights.
It's, yeah, it's crazy. Anyway, right, do the next one for me, please. Prendre, to take.
Prendre is to take. Mon cousin et moi. Now remember, remember the subject. Mon cousin et moi. and then we need to use prendre in the passé composé l'avion hier so to take the plane yesterday so basically we want to say my cousin and I took or have taken or took the plane yesterday okay uh if I pay for the schools on your website does that give access for the youtube channel as well uh Liam so you get access to way more on their websites hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of videos and support guides and stuff but it doesn't give you access to the paid membership which anyway you get everything of in the website yeah so the link that you will get on the live if you have access to that course on the website is exactly the same link that this guy gets on youtube however they don't get Well, a minute portion, they get 0.1% of what is in the course.
So, avons pris, avons pris, on pris. Ah, okay, that's interesting. Is it son pris, avons pris, on pris? So not a motion verb, so needs to be avoir.
Yeah, absolutely, it's not a motion verb. But it's interesting because we have different answers here. Avons pris, on pris.
This is really interesting. The doorman in US is the gardien de l'immeuble. Thank you, Senora L. I know some of you think, what is it? What is it?
What is it? So, oh, what's the sentence? Mon cousin et moi en prendre. Now, let me just go through that. Mon cousin et moi.
And this is the hardest part. And the verb is prendre. Okay, so like I say, you need to take it all out. And I know that it's not, you know, when you speak French and trying really hard, it doesn't come naturally. But if you keep doing this, if you keep doing this, you will eventually not think about it.
You will eventually do it naturally. Think about that. Who is mon cousin et moi? If you were to replace it by a subject pronoun, is it I?
No, it's my cousin and I. It's not I because my cousin is in the group. Okay.
So is it je? Is it you? Tu? No. Okay.
Is it il? Well, no, it's not il because my cousin is with me. It's not.
So it's definitely there is one person plus one. It's a plural. So the plurals are either nous, as in we, vous, as in you, a group of people, or il, or... elle. V, masculine, feminine.
Yeah, can you see that? Mon cousin et moi is nous, absolutely, because it's me and my cousin. Okay, so once you know that, that mon cousin et moi, it's we, you should be able to conjugate the verb to have here. So j'ai, tu as, il as, elle a, nous. Nous avons.
Okay, so mon cousin et moi avons. Okay, because prendre is used with avoir in passé composé. Mon cousin et moi avons, and then what we do is we transform prendre into... Unless you know, and this is the question I think we were talking with Iem. I can't remember who at the very beginning saying, but it's so hard.
The third group verbs are so hard. Learn them by heart. Learn that prendre in the past participle is pris.
Okay. So it's like I'm saying, my cousin and I have taken. Now, editor, you cannot say avant-prenant.
Why? Because you can't say avant-prenant because You cannot have two verbs conjugated next to each other. You can either say nous prenons, we are taking, or nous avons, we have.
But you can't say two conjugated verbs next to each other like that. You have to have prendre like a participle. Okay, so here we go. Sorry, I'm distracted. What's the conversation?
about Liam on WhatsApp. Lunch! Now, meanwhile Liam and my teachers are having their own little conversation on WhatsApp. So Liam is multitasking which is very impressive for a man.
That's right. No, it's sexist. That's sexist.
Sorry, I take it back. Nowadays I can't say that. I take it back, I take it back. Okay. So here we go.
So it's nous avons pris. OK. So mon cousin et moi avons pris.
OK. There you go. OK. L'avion hier.
So my cousin and I have taken the plane yesterday. OK. So what I'm going to do, and because I took a long time explaining the very fast first part, I would like you to be able...
to do the rest by yourself, okay? You can take a screenshot, watch this video again. You know, there will be the answers, you know, the answers will be given by, if you, well, if you have subscribed to the YouTube channel as a member, you get access to a pCloud, and this pCloud gives you access to all the support guides available for my videos. Yeah, it's a really good deal, by the way.
Men can multitask. Call me shock. For Christ's sake. Now, imperfect or passé composé, it's very difficult for me.
I have done a video that is really successful, Van Schicka, understanding the difference between the imperfect and the passé composé. One thing is, look at my timeline video. This timeline video was the best video I did last year, I think it was. One of the strike of genius, I think, because we received hundreds of thousands of views.
I mean nearly a million I would assume you know and I tell you it helps a lot of people so do watch it. So I'm going ma soeur a sorti avec ses amis, prem di ratio, no it's ma soeur est sorti avec ses amis and sorti i.e. I show you this okay you can again screenshot it if you want est sortie, and i because ma soeur is a lady, and we are using to be as a movement verb.
Quand est-ce que tu as posté cette lettre? Ok, to post a letter. Vous avez fini les travaux.
On a fait une soirée karaoké hier. There you go. So I'm going to put myself big now. Zoop!
There you go. And I'm going to have to leave you because if you want to have access to the exclusive live, of course you can, quite simply, if you're a member of the YouTube channel. I don't know how much it costs. Not much.
I don't think it's a lot of money. I don't know. But it's not much.
But you get access to the exclusive lives and they're really cool. Really, really cool. But if you want to talk to someone, OK, my teachers are here.
OK. and because they've started doing master classes and they are really cool. Any timeline on when it will be available? My subscription will expire soon and I believe I have enough time to finish the existing C1 and C2 video plus all sub quizzes.
Robin, the timeline of what? Sorry, oh you're dealing with it. Okay, so I see you soon. There was a question I wanted to address. Oh, no, you addressed it.
The C1, C2 levels. Are the exercises enough to master it on C1 level? Okay. Do you know that the TEF course that we have written, if you wanted to move on to something really hard at C1, C2 level, when all the TEF course has been written in that in mind, with that in mind, you know, it's worth looking at. Even though it's geared towards exams, it's really good.
It's very good in terms of higher level content. Okay, it was the video that introduced me to Alexa. It helped me with Tansy so much.
Oh, excellent. Well, I'm glad that you... Can you see that I'm sweating? I am shiny.
I'm shiny. I'm sweating so much under these lights. Oh my God, it was... Please, is it possible for those sentences be translated in English for new beginners like me here?
Ah, I'm sorry. It's I did not write them down on the screen. It will be available on the support guides. But it's a yeah, it's it's a Francis.
It's a very good question. Alexa's mind right now. Yeah, Pugraj, how do you know? How do you know I am this person for sure? I'm going to go because I need to see what's going on in that WhatsApp group.
I think people are talking behind my back. Oh, I'm pretty certain that these guys have a special WhatsApp group without Adam and Alexa in it, you know, so they can slack me off like that. Okay, if it's very hot, Ali, yes, I don't know where you are from, Ali, but it's really hot here.
We are in London and yeah, it is. Remember to say au revoir, à bientôt, bisous, bisous, the Alexa voice. Of course, I'm going to do that.
Au revoir, à bientôt, et puis bisous, bisous.