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Make one note per rule or topic, with the form, one or two examples and the usual trap, such as which auxiliary a verb takes. Lumi quizzes conjugations, genders, agreement rules and vocabulary. The classic trap is knowing a rule without spotting it in a real sentence. For each rule, invent your own example sentence. The generation effect shows that you remember better what you produced yourself (Slamecka and Graf, 1978).

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The verb avoir is the auxiliary for most verbs in the passé composé. A small group of verbs of movement, such as aller and venir, take être instead. With être the past participle agrees with the subject, so elle est allée ends in e. Adjectives usually follow the noun in French, as in une voiture rouge.

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The verb _____ is the auxiliary for most verbs in the passé composé.

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Active recall, why quizzing yourself beats rereadingReading once then quizzing three times gave 61% of ideas recalled after a week, against 40% for rereading four times (Roediger, 2006).How to make flashcards that actually workA good card asks a question and makes you produce the answer from memory. What Rowland, Kornell, Slamecka and Rawson found.Spaced repetition, how long to wait between two reviewsSpacing beats massing. The best gap between two sessions depends on how far away the exam is, with the benchmarks from Cepeda’s 2008 study.

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