Talk:French II/The simple future
The future forms[edit source]
Hi, in this lesson the simple future is presented as the tense to use when you want to talk about future. It is not exactly true. Nowadays, at least in France, another form tends to replace the simple future tense. It is "Aller + infinitive verb", like "je vais faire"=I will do. More and more, people use this form which is known as "futur proche" (I'm not sure how to translate it). It really corresponds to the English form "be+going to+vb" but is used more and more instead of the simple future.
I don't know if the "futur proche" deserves a lesson for itself or if we should include it in that lesson renaming it as "The future forms" or "The future tenses" for example.
Albane69 17:00, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
In standard English speaking courses for learning French, this tense is not referred to as "simple future". If anything, futur proche is considered to be simple future. The English translation for futur proche is immediate future, as that is what it is referred to as in French courses in the US. As this lesson is not referring to the futur proche 'tense', I would recommend renaming this to French II/Future Tense.