🇫🇷Hello everyone and welcome back to my virtual classroom

 📚Today, we will introduce ourselves and we will talk about the masculine and the feminine forms. I have a special guest!

 1-    Here are a few words we should remember from our 1st lesson: 
-       Bonjour! (Hello!)
-       Au revoir! (goodbye!)
-       À bientôt (see you soon!)
-       Français (French)
-       Merci (Thank you)
-       De rien (You are welcome)

2-    Let’s add a few new ones:
 -       Bonjour! 
-       Comment ça va? (how are you?)
-       Ça va bien, merci! (I am doing well, thank you!)
-       Je m’appelle Cathy! (“I am called Cathy” or “my name is Cathy”)
-       Comment tu t’appelles? (“how are you called?” or “What is your name?”)
-       Je m’appelle Jessie
-       Je suis française (“I am French” – the “E” at the end of “française” marks the feminine form, but we will get back to it later)
-       Tu es français(e)? Tu es américain(e)?  Tu es irlandais(e)? Tu es anglais(e)? (are you French, American, Irish, English?)
-       Je suis américain(e). (I am American)
-       Merci et à bientôt! (thank you and see you soon!)
-       De rien et au revoir! (You are welcome and goodbye!)

3-    The Masculine and the feminine forms.

• In English, human beings (and some animals) are labeled as male and female by carrying the Pronouns “he” or “she” but most objects are considered as neutral with the pronoun: “it”.
•  In French, every noun has a gender, meaning that they can be either masculine or feminine. 

-       La pluie (the rain) - Feminin
-       Le soleil (the sun) – Masculin
-       Une chanson (a song) - Feminin
-       Un livre (a book) - Masculin

There are many rules in French to learn how to recognize the gender of a noun, but these rules are often broken. 

Fun Fact: French is roman language mostly derived from Latin and Greek. It is also a patriarchal language, so it seems to me that words were once labeled based on their meaning and their use:

-       La maison (the house), la table (the table), la cuisine (the kitchen), la chaise (the chair), la sieste (the nap), la beauté (the beauty), la tête (the head), la lune (the moon), la naissance (the birth), la robe (the dress), etc. All these words are feminine and are somehow all attached to the woman gender.

-       Now, le travail (the job), le cerveau (the brain), le professeur (the teacher), le combat (the battle), le soleil (the sun), le pantalon (the pants), are all masculine nouns.

 Besides, “le canapé” (the couch) is masculine, and “l’intelligence” (the intelligence) is feminine! Just kidding! 😁

1-    Here are 3 verses from Jacques Prévert, based on what we have learned today:

Il dit non avec la tête
 Mais il dit oui avec le cœur
 Il dit oui à ce qu'il aime

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at: [email protected] 

Au revoir, et merci!
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Credits:
-       🎶 Music: Jazz in Paris – Media Right Productions
-       Voice: Jessie Capone