french tenses

i'm going to start posting a bit more about language, in part to give me wee reminders on my own language journey, but also useful stuff along the way. so, for starters, here's this, a basic intro for french tenses. obvs, for english speakers but, both for me and in my experience, our grammar knowledge is so dire that keeping it simple is almost a prerequisite. plus, for adult learners, diagrams and pictures are a superhandy means to learning.

again, it's not the whole story, but if you're getting stuck, drawing a line and using post its, whether it's tenses, sentence structure (i'm looking at you swedish!) or whatever, it's a good tool.