adj. enervé(e), pissed off, angry, aggravated.
Solutions to Exercises
Creating exercises
When creating new exercises:
Namescheme: E: [Level].[Lesson] # - [Subject] - [Title]
Example: E: 2.01 1 - School Vocabulary - Complétez
Example: E: 2.01 2 - Passé Composé - English to French
Add the following to both the lesson where the exercise goes and the appropriate section on this page.
Replace [...] with the specified lesson info.
{{French Exercises|[namescheme]|
[the exercise text]
|
[the exercise solution text]
}}
Example:
{{French Exercises|E: 2.01 1 - School Vocabulary - Complétez|
* On lève la _____.
|
* On lève la ''main''.
}}
Lesson exercises
Introductory lessons
Level One lessons
Level Two lessons
Level Three lessons
Vocabulary Index
Common French words by category
Typing Characters
International keyboard configuration
Commonly one memorises the alt-number code for inserting non-English characters (below), but there is a much better method. One can change their keyboard configuration from their previous setting to a US
(Qwerty) International setting. See http://www.starr.net/kbh for more information.
In Windows XP:
1. Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
2. Regional and Language Options
3. Languages -> Details ...
4. Click Add.
5. Under Input language, choose your native language.
6. Under Keyboard layout/IME, choose United States-International.
Now to form accents, you prefix the letter with either ` ' " ~ or ^ So, to get è, one types ànd then e. To get Ë, one types " and then E.
These are examples of the alt-number code method:
ù Alt+151 or Alt+0249
û Alt+150 or Alt+0251
ü Alt+129 or Alt+0252
The right Alt key may be required.
JLG extended keyboard layout for US
You can download the JLG Extended Keyboard Layout for US (freeware) on http://www.jlg-utilities.com.
This layout does not modify the normal US Layout, but extends it. Thus the punctuation characters (', ", ^, etc.) are not dead keys and does not perturb the common user. Thousand of Unicode characters can be reached, included the French characters, generally with intuitive combinations, for instance: é = CTRL + ' then e
à = CTRL + ` then a
Î = CTRL + ^ then I
? = ALTGR + o then e
« = ALTGR + [
» = ALTGR + ]
etc.
In Mac OS X
You could change your keyboard layout in System Preferences->International->Input Menu or with the default qwerty keyboard layout you can use meta keys to create the accents. For instance if you want to create an "`" accent you would press option+` then press the vowel you want to appear under the letter to create à, è, ì, ò, or ù. The keystrokes for the diffent accents are...
option + "`" = òption + "e" = óption + "i" = ôption + "u" = ¨
Copy & paste
This method can be useful if you are just writing a short text (for example an e-mail) and don't have a computer where you can/want change language settings. Just try to pull up a web page or a document that contains the special characters and paste them into your text. For longer texts, however, this can become quite tedious.
Search & replace
If you are working with a text editor you have the option to search for text and replace it with other text.
