Bien sûr can also be used in response to a statement. It’s a little difficult to describe the type of situations where this is appropriate, but it usually takes on a meaning similar to “ no problem “.
Let’s cut to the chase. Bien sûr is how you say of course in French. Translated literally as “very sure”, bien sûr is quite versatile because just like “of course” is used in English bien sûr can be used in all sorts of situations both formal and informal.
Although it’s not necessary you can add que oui to bien sûr to add emphasis.
At the end of the day my recommendation is to not overthink this one. If you know how to use “of course” in English then you should be able to learn bien sûr without too much difficulty.
For the average monolingual English native speaker, French is going to be the easier language to learn. This is due partially to an easier (and more similar) grammar system, but more due to a much wider lexical similarity.
Due to the lack of case marking in its nouns, French compensates by using a wide array of prepositions and a more rigid word order. French follows a SVO order (subject - verb - object), with the exception being weak object pronouns — these come directly behind the verb.
French nominals have two genders (masculine and feminine ) and can inflect to indicate two numbers (singular and plural). Any pronoun, article, determiner, and/or adjective that accompanies a noun must always agree with it, in both gender and number.
Every verb belongs to one of three conjugations (sort of like inflectional patterns), and regular verbs belonging to the same conjugation are inflected similarly. Thus, to truly learn French verbs you have to master these three patters, plus the main irregular verbs that deviate from the norm.
We started studying a French crime novel ( un roman policier) called Le chien jaune (the yellow dog). We learned French while she drew out the scenes on the black board ( le tableau noir) using coloured chalk ( des craies colorées ). I would show up first thing, well before the early bell, to erase the drawings from the previous day. My grades shot up into the low 90s and I learned a lot of French.
French probably the richest vowel inventory of all major Romance languages. with an impressive 17 vowels in Standard French (13 oral vowels and 4 nasal vowels). When it comes to consonants, however, French is roughly around the average of European languages, and it does not really have many unusual sounds.
That being said, the #1 factor that will determine how quickly/easily you learn a language will be personal motivation. If you really want to learn German over French, then please please please do it. The first foreign language I learned to fluency wasn’t French or Spanish (both of which at th