Njinu Precious Bambot
Certified Bilingual Language Expert and Coach
Njinu Precious Bambot is a Certified Bilingual Language Expert and Coach, and the author of Le Français Pas à Pas, the 45-rule French grammar workbook FrancoLink publishes. He built FrancoLink's CEFR lesson library and selects and interviews every tutor on the platform.
Posts by Njinu Precious Bambot
- How Long Does It Take to Learn French? Do the Arithmetic
The official figure assumes a full-time course. Here is what it turns into at five hours a week, and why nobody can honestly give you an hours-per-level table.
- French Tenses: The Eight You Actually Need
French has more tenses than you will ever produce. Eight carry ordinary French through B1, two more finish B2, and the literary ones you only need to read.
- Is French Hard to Learn? What the Official Numbers Say
French sits in the US State Department's easiest category, and at the slow end of it. Here is what the official hours cover, and the ones nobody counts.
- Passé Composé vs Imparfait: The Rule That Finally Sticks
Passé composé is what happened. Imparfait is what was going on around it. The one-line rule, then the six cases where it stops working.