French grammar made visual — chalkboard lessons with clear tables, the classic anglophone pitfalls, audio examples and practice.
French grammar has a reputation it only half deserves. Most of its rules are honest — gender flows into articles (le/la/les), articles into adjective endings, adjectives into agreement everywhere — so learning in the right order means each chart pays for the next. Start with the articles (the le/la/les system English lacks), then noun-adjective agreement and position, then the pronoun ladder. Only then take on the past tenses: passé composé for events, imparfait for backgrounds — the pair that runs every French story — and note that the literary passé simple can wait until you read novels. Verb conjugation lives in its own chart library; grammar charts here handle everything around the verb: word order, negation, questions, prepositions.
Two honest warnings about French grammar rules. First, every rule ships with an exception shortlist — bon becomes meilleur, the h in haricot blocks liaison, some adjectives change meaning by position (un grand homme vs un homme grand) — and the charts flag these rather than hide them. Each chart pairs the rule with examples and the moving parts named plainly — noun, adjective, adverb (the -ment family), past participle, the compound tenses built on avoir/être — because grammar vocabulary is itself vocabulary, and you can’t fix an agreement error you can’t name. Second, spoken and written French diverge: the ne of negation drops in speech (je sais pas), est-ce que replaces inversion, and on replaces nous — so each chart notes what the exam wants AND what the street says. Work one chart at a time, build three example sentences of your own per rule, and test yourself with the exercises linked in each guide: grammar sticks by production, not recognition.
Articles and gender, present tense of être/avoir/aller/faire, basic adjective agreement, negation with ne…pas, and question-making. That kit builds real sentences from week one.
Passé composé narrates events (what happened); imparfait paints backgrounds and habits (what was going on). « Je dormais quand tu as appelé » uses both, correctly, in one sentence.
It’s front-loaded: gender, agreement and conjugation feel heavy in month one, then the system’s consistency takes over. English speakers get thousands of shared words as compensation.