C'est vs il est and how to choose between them I have been learning french for about three years now. I'm pretty happy with where I've got to, and generally speaking I feel comfortable when listening to, reading, and speaking french. However there is one particular aspect of french usage that somewhat escapes me, and it is the use of the demonstrative pronouns 'ce/ces', and when we should and shouldn't use them instead of personal pronouns il/elle/ils /elles. For example, In english I might say, 'this is my bike, it is fast'. - in french, this would be 'Voici mon vélo, il est rapide.' - using a personal pronoun to describe the bike. Then I might say 'This is my wife, she's a photographer'. This time, in french it becomes 'Voici ma femme, c'est une photographe'. So this time we use an impersonal pronoun to describe a person. Perhaps I'm getting hung up on the idea of a noun being personal or impersonal, but I feel like I'm using 'ce' too much as my default when talking about an object.…