Why you should use Il faut que instead of Je dois in French - Intermediate French

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English speakers tend to us "Je dois" when we want to say "I have to/I need to" but "Il faut que" is actually the more natural French choice.

This is a video for those of you who are regularly having conversations and so are pretty comfortable speaking the basics and are able to articulate general thoughts, feelings, etc etc.
I say this because I talk about a pretty nuanced topic: Falloir v Devoir. On one hand it’s easy because I say « switch to Falloir » to talk about « need to » and « have to ».

On the other hand, it’s important that you have experience using the language already because you’ll be able to relate to what I say about these two verbs. The biggest difficulty for English speakers is that there isn’t a case where you 100% use one for an English equivalent, and 100% case where you use the other. So you have to already have a « feel » for the basics of the language before you start delving into using « Falloir » over « Devoir ». If you’re not careful, you’ll just get yourself very confused over something that should NOT distract you from getting your point across.

That said, if you do want to use more natural French and can already express yourself in the basics, then I encourage you to start using « falloir » for the two reasons discussed in the video. I love it and I feel more French every time I use it.

Enjoy :)

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