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Hello and welcome to COMME UN PRO, the student-friendly site dedicated to making French accessible for everyone! I am Mac, your resident teacher and French grammar expert. My mission is simple – to make French grammar a little easier on the average language learner, and to encourage students to be autonomous in their learning. Here I will tackle some of the most problematic aspects of the French language as well as provide tips on improving overall language competence. From those pesky object pronouns we all know and love to the passé composé, this site will have your learning covered. You will be on your way to speaking French comme un pro in no time!

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Daily writing prompt
How have your political views changed over time?
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I’ve always been suspicious of politicians (not without reason) and politics itself as an institution. We can’t live without politics. Our very existence is political – how we relate to one another and the world, how we fulfill our needs (and wants), our differing opinions and perspectives. Like many institutional problems, politics became (or has become) a law unto itself, something that serves its own agenda instead of (or alongside) what it actually exists to do. Isn’t it maddening the amount of money, time and energy that goes into ‘campaigning’ when the very people they’re supposedly campaigning to lead are in dire and urgent need?

What technology would you be better off without, why?

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Instead of merely speaking in hypotheticals (i.e. “I would stop using it”), I want to see someone put their money where their mouth is and actually leave whatever piece of technology it is behind. It’s no use just talking about being better off without it, in my opinion, just like it’s no use merely talking about going to the market when our stomachs are rumbling, (or to the hospital when we’re sick). You’d say we were crazy for not actually going to the market for food, or to the hospital for a cure (by the same token, liking a post such as this one without the message of the post transforming anyone internally falls into the same category).

So, let’s do this, and not just talk about it. I’m waiting expectantly 😏

What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?

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Some of these prompts (like the one above) are very personal – it’s doubtful that a platform like this should be calling for people to share such intimacy (nor that people should respond to such prompts) in a space where they are surrounded by total strangers. There is something improper and undignifying about it (which says so much about the state of ‘our society’ and our world – why people are searching for such intimacy among strangers in the first place – why can’t they find it up close, in the faces of family, close friends, real community?)