French Verb Tenses and the Curious Case of the Passé simple: Why It Survives in Writing but Rarely in Everyday Speech
Learners often meet the French past tenses in a neat textbook story: passé composé for “the past”, imparfait for background, and (somewhere later, often with… Read More »French Verb Tenses and the Curious Case of the Passé simple: Why It Survives in Writing but Rarely in Everyday Speech