French verbs and prepositions. I stated in my profile that my French was around the B1 level. I think I will have to downgrade this somewhat :) The most important lesson that I learnt from this experience was that I need to increase the amount of useful phrases in my French "toolkit". There are two main ways in which I am currently going this: 1. Looking up examples French sentences in Tatoeba which contain examples of verbs with prepositions e.g. Je viendrai vous chercher à 8 heures demain matin. (I'll come and pick you up from the station at 8am tomorrow". In the event that a French sentence doesn't have an English translations I'll supply one for the next guy to learn from ;) 2. Once I have some sample sentences in place, I put these all into Anki. Once a phrase is in Anki it stays there for ever - it's then up to me to schedule these into my daily life and start learning them. There is obviously a lot more work I can be doing in the meantime with my French - reading French news, watching French films and TV. I'm making an effort to do this.