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French, lesson by lesson.

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Course 01

Comment allez-vous ?

How are you?

A first encounter built around greetings, introductions, and the difference between formal and familiar ways of asking how someone is doing.

18 minOpen
Course 02

Le café

The café

A breakfast order that introduces articles, everyday café vocabulary, and how French often asks questions with simple rising intonation.

21 minOpen
Course 03

Présentations

Introductions

A compact lesson on naming yourself, introducing someone else, asking questions with inversion, and locating people by region.

22 minOpen
Course 04

L'heure

The time

A short exchange about asking the time that introduces `est-ce que`, the negative `ne ... pas`, and a first set of everyday time expressions.

19 minOpen
Course 05

Je cherche le métro

I'm looking for the metro

A street-direction exchange that introduces asking for help, saying you are not from here, and following simple walking directions in French.

22 minOpen
Course 06

À l'hôtel

At the hotel

A hotel check-in exchange that introduces room reservations, spelling a surname, floors, keys, and simple noun/adjective agreement.

23 minOpen
Course 07

Révision

Revision

A first revision lesson that reviews greetings, time, negation, gender, common verb forms, spelling aloud, and core vocabulary from the first six lessons.

28 minOpen
Course 08

Une visite

A visit

A visitor asks whether someone's father is at home, learns he is at the office, and gets his office address.

22 minOpen
Course 09

À la mairie

At the Town Hall

A couple asks for a new identity card for their son and answers basic administrative questions at the town hall.

21 minOpen
Course 10

C'est très simple !

It's very simple!

A town hall official checks the last required documents, prepares the card, then runs into a missing wallet.

22 minOpen
Course 11

Au marché (Première partie)

At the market (First part)

A household heads to the market because the cupboards are empty, then begins a long produce order.

24 minOpen
Course 12

Au marché (Deuxième partie)

At the market (Second part)

The market order continues with strawberries, a taste test, a price check, and the final total.

22 minOpen
Course 13

Un cadeau

A gift

A birthday present turns out to be a new phone that can do everything, except unlock without the passcode.

23 minOpen
Course 14

Révision

Revision

A second revision lesson that consolidates possessive adjectives, -er verbs, faire, pouvoir, c'est, il est, and adjective agreement.

30 minOpen
Course 15

Un tour dans Paris (Première partie)

A tour of Paris (First part)

A Paris tour guide introduces herself and starts pointing out the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower before a tourist interrupts with an urgent practical question.

24 minOpen
Course 16

Un tour dans Paris (Deuxième partie)

A tour of Paris (Second part)

The Paris tour continues with the City of Light, the Opéra, department stores, the Café de la Paix, and a chance to get off the bus.

26 minOpen
Course 17

Quels sont vos projets ?

What are your plans?

A plan to visit an exhibition at La Piscine becomes a small scheduling puzzle involving appointments, the 24-hour clock, and museum closing time.

28 minOpen
Course 18

Prenons rendez-vous avec le banquier

Let's make an appointment with the banker

A simple appointment request becomes an impossible calendar search across work trips, holidays, long weekends, training, family visits, and the school-year return.

30 minOpen
Course 19

Un bel endroit pour une fête

A great place for a party

A birthday party request turns into a useful exchange about rooms, prices, dates, approximate numbers, and the difference between available and free of charge.

28 minOpen
Course 20

Un monde idéal

An ideal world

A radio programme asks ambassadors what they want for Christmas, creating a focused lesson on countries, nationalities, partitive articles, and honest priorities.

30 minOpen
Course 21

Révision

Revision

A third revision lesson consolidating être, avoir, vouloir, negatives, questions, noun genders, adjective agreement, dates, and time.

34 minOpen
Course 22

Réfléchissez, choisissez, jouez

Think, choose, play

A conversation about horse-race betting introduces irregular plurals, two pronunciations of `tous`, useful `-ir` verbs, and gambling expressions.

32 minOpen
Course 23

Comment réussir au loto

How to succeed at the lotto

A café order turns into a lottery discussion, introducing service phrases, playing games with `jouer à`, negatives with `de`, and useful expressions such as `tout à fait`.

34 minOpen
Course 24

Je ne vais pas bien du tout

I'm not well at all

A doctor's visit introduces symptoms, medical instructions, temperatures in Celsius, direct object pronouns, and the expression `avoir l'air`.

36 minOpen
Course 25

Déjeunons ensemble

Let's have lunch together

A lunch decision introduces neighbourhood restaurants, directions, first-person plural imperatives, `lequel/laquelle`, idioms such as `ça m'est égal`, and the immediate past with `venir de`.

38 minOpen
Course 26

Déjeunons ensemble (suite)

Let's have lunch together (continued)

The restaurant scene continues with table requests, menu choices, food and drink ordering, cooking preferences, the bill, and restaurant vocabulary such as `la carte`, `le menu`, `service compris`, and `pourboire`.

42 minOpen
Course 27

Hôtel complet

No vacancies

A hotel search introduces airport proximity, rooms and floors, comparative descriptions, `celui/celle/celles/ceux`, and practical travel vocabulary such as `disponible`, `tarif`, and `complet`.

42 minOpen
Course 28

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson reviewing regular second-group `-ir` verbs, direct object pronouns, `quel` and `lequel`, demonstrative pronouns, common `avoir` expressions, and French cardinal numbers.

35 minOpen
Course 29

Comment vas-tu ?

How are you?

A familiar conversation introduces `tu` and `toi`, shopping for pastries and gifts, surnames in the plural, `offrir`, `savoir` versus `connaître`, `-eau` plurals, and preference with `plutôt`.

42 minOpen
Course 30

J'ai un truc à te demander...

I've got something to ask you...

A phone call introduces `un truc`, `allô`, `entendre`, `-re` verbs, `ne quitte pas`, `mettre`, `vas-y`, `vouloir bien`, object-pronoun order, and `à tout à l'heure`.

43 minOpen
Course 31

J'en ai besoin rapidement

I need one quickly

A shopping exchange introduces formal `puis-je`, electric kettles, `en` as a pronoun and preposition, `celle-ci/celle-là`, materials, certainty, stock, and polite thanks.

43 minOpen
Course 32

Je ne peux plus continuer comme ça

I can no longer continue like this

An exhausted employee talks about work, handling hundreds of emails, helping colleagues, and the limits of continuing this way.

45 minOpen
Course 33

Je n'ai rien dans ma garde-robe

I have nothing in my wardrobe

A clothes-shopping conversation practices familiar and polite imperatives, `ne ... rien`, clothing vocabulary, colors, and shopping expressions.

46 minOpen
Course 34

Les randonneurs

The hikers

A hiker describes a long walk in Alsace while introducing irregular `-ir` verbs, `y`, `rien`, weather, body parts, and hiking vocabulary.

45 minOpen
Course 35

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson consolidating third-group verbs, plural noun patterns, `y`, `en`, `savoir` and `connaître`, indirect object pronouns, and the `tu`/`vous` distinction.

38 minOpen
Course 36

J'espère que je n'ai rien oublié

I hope that I haven't forgotten anything

A pre-airport checklist introduces the passé composé of `-er` verbs, checking and locking the house, object pronouns, and recent-time expressions.

48 minOpen
Course 37

J'ai réfléchi à la question du loyer...

I've thought about the question of rent...

An apartment hunt introduces rental vocabulary, comparatives and superlatives, `-ir` verbs in the passé composé, and practical expressions for affordability.

50 minOpen
Course 38

C'est de la part de qui ?

Who is calling?

A business phone call introduces call-transfer formulas, office and contact-detail vocabulary, formal politeness, and past participles of several common `-re` verbs.

50 minOpen
Course 39

Le septième art

The seventh art

A formal description of French cinema introduces press-style vocabulary, cinema institutions, formal linkage, past participles, and the present participle.

52 minOpen
Course 40

Tu es si impatient !

You're so impatient!

An informal cinema-planning conversation introduces colloquial reactions, cinema listings, more irregular past participles, and ways to contradict a negative statement.

50 minOpen
Course 41

Un accueil désagréable

An unpleasant reception

A tense restaurant booking call introduces reservation vocabulary, `depuis` with the present tense, formal questions, future tense, and technology words like `texto`.

52 minOpen
Course 42

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson consolidating present and past participles, the passé composé, comparatives and superlatives, phone phrases, and recent register work.

40 minOpen
Course 43

Le foot féminin

Women's football

A sports article introduces the passé composé with `être`, agreement of past participles, sports vocabulary, and expressions around careers and retirement.

54 minOpen
Course 44

Perturbations dans les transports

Transport disruptions

A station conversation covers ticketing, platform vocabulary, travel disruptions, wrong numbers, pronounced final consonants, and idioms with `marre`, `valoir`, and `mal`.

56 minOpen
Course 45

Il n'y a pas de métiers inutiles

There are no useless jobs

A speaker describes modern careers, job titles, social networks, relative pronouns, `ce qui`/`ce que`, `je voudrais`, and expressions around work and unemployment.

57 minOpen
Course 46

Depuis, je n'ai aucune nouvelle

I've had no news since then

A missing-husband report practices descriptions, clothing, stressed pronouns, `aucun`, formal address, `meilleur` versus `mieux`, and idioms with `peine` and `souci`.

58 minOpen
Course 47

Un déménagement

A removal

A move brings together `plus ... plus`, direct and indirect object pronouns, `éventuellement`, `demi`, familiar work vocabulary, and household-item vocabulary.

62 minOpen
Course 48

Ça ne me dit rien

I don't feel like it

A picnic debate introduces `ça ne me dit rien`, weather with `faire`, material phrases with `en`, purpose compounds with `à`, `ceci`/`cela`, and `se passer`.

59 minOpen
Course 49

Révision

Revision

A review lesson consolidating `être` verbs in the passé composé, stressed pronouns, relative pronouns, singular/plural shifts, prepositions, and recent comparative work.

42 minOpen
Course 50

Je m'ennuie

I get bored

The first productive-phase lesson introduces reflexive and pronominal verbs through a dull workday routine, media vocabulary, transport with `en`, and expressions such as `faire semblant` and `se demander`.

62 minOpen
Course 51

Hâtez-vous lentement !

More haste, less speed

The first productive-phase lesson follows a rushed trip to the theatre while reviewing reflexive verbs, imperatives, parking vocabulary, `en` versus `dans`, and idioms for missing people or objects.

64 minOpen
Course 52

Nous nous sommes bien amusés !

We really enjoyed ourselves!

This media-themed productive-phase lesson introduces possessive pronouns, `ni...ni`, pronominal verbs in the past tense, `il y a` for ago, and the reversed structure of `manquer` when you miss someone or something.

66 minOpen
Course 53

Je ne ferai plus jamais ça !

I will never do that again!

This lesson introduces the future tense through online grocery shopping, supermarket sections, delivery problems, and expressions such as `en promotion`, `simple comme bonjour`, and `aucun des deux`.

68 minOpen
Course 54

Votez pour moi : vous ne le regretterez pas...

Vote for me: you won't regret it...

This political lesson expands the future tense with irregular verbs such as `avoir`, `être`, `venir`, `pouvoir`, and `devoir`, plus vocabulary for elections, parties, candidates, and political speeches.

68 minOpen
Course 55

Mais c'est horrible, ton film !

But your movie is awful!

This horror-film lesson contrasts simple and pronominal verb meanings such as `passer` and `se passer`, `entendre` and `s'entendre`, `tromper` and `se tromper`, while adding cinema vocabulary and informal words such as `gosse`.

67 minOpen
Course 56

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson consolidating pronominal verbs, reciprocal verbs, future-tense forms, possessive pronouns, and the prepositions `en`, `dans`, and `à`, followed by a short review dialogue.

58 minOpen
Course 57

Vive les Bretons !

Long live the Bretons!

This lesson introduces the imperfect tense in a story about speaking Breton, regional identity, and the origin of the verb `baragouiner`.

67 minOpen
Course 58

Un grincheux

A grumpy person

A grumpy travel-planning dialogue adds holiday and tourism vocabulary, weather idioms, and expressions such as `avoir la flemme`, `ça vaut la peine`, and `jeter l'argent par les fenêtres`.

68 minOpen
Course 59

Il ne gagnait (presque) jamais

He (almost) never won

A family story about old communication methods, phone plans, and horse betting reinforces the imperfect tense and adds expressions such as `laisser tomber`, `au hasard`, and `pile ou face`.

70 minOpen
Course 60

Le voisinage est de plus en plus dangereux !

The neighbourhood is increasingly dangerous!

A witness interview about a fire works through `peu`, `plus`, `environs`, `pendant que`, and emergency-service vocabulary.

70 minOpen
Course 61

La célébrité ne me dit pas grand-chose

Fame doesn't mean much to me

A photojournalist reflects on leaving Corsica, finding her path in street photography, and valuing meaningful images over media fame.

72 minOpen
Course 62

J'ai mis le doigt sur ton problème...

I've put my finger on your problem

A discouraged programming student complains through a chain of body-part idioms before receiving advice to change approach and keep working.

74 minOpen
Course 63

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson consolidating the imperfect tense, `valoir` and `falloir`, the pronunciation of `plus`, conjunctive adverbs, and body-part idioms.

62 minOpen
Course 64

Je crains le pire...

I fear the worst

A travel-agent conversation compares holiday periods, conditional clauses, superlatives, sporting activities, and package prices.

72 minOpen
Course 65

Cent pour cent des gagnants ont tenté leur chance !

100% of winners tried their luck

A lottery for a winter-sports holiday introduces conditional forms with `si`, including `pourrais`, `irais`, `aurais`, `serait`, `dirais`, and `faudrait`.

76 minOpen
Course 66

Président d'un jour

President for a day

A climate debate in the National Assembly extends the conditional into public-policy proposals, restrictions, disagreement, and past conditional forms.

78 minOpen
Course 67

L'encre la plus pâle...

The palest ink...

Neighbours help Claudie after a broken lift, while the lesson contrasts intransitive `être` verbs with their transitive `avoir` meanings.

78 minOpen
Course 68

La visite de la petite-fille

The granddaughter's visit

A granddaughter visits her grandparents, trading affectionate family talk, modern vocabulary, travel plans, and a request for cash.

82 minOpen
Course 69

Les animaux ne mentent pas...

Animals do not lie...

A lunch invitation turns into a tour of French animal idioms for illness, boredom, work, guessing, and good fortune.

84 minOpen
Course 70

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson reviewing the conditional, dual-auxiliary verbs, `tout`, `n'importe`, and animal idioms.

36 minOpen
Course 71

La Dame de fer

The Iron Lady

A tourist audioguide recounts the Eiffel Tower's construction, criticism, survival, fame, and legends.

86 minOpen
Course 72

Ça ne se fait pas !

That's not the done thing!

Colleagues plan Éric's farewell drinks party while the lesson reviews passive alternatives, emphasis with `c'est ... qui`, and office vocabulary.

84 minOpen
Course 73

Je n'en peux plus !

I can't take it any more!

A run of bad luck at the dentist turns into a flood of familiar French complaint idioms.

82 minOpen
Course 74

Les soldes

The sales

A shopping trip during the January sales introduces bargain vocabulary, clothing phrases, and ways to say something suits someone.

82 minOpen
Course 75

Le Prix "Accord majeur"

The "Major Chord" Prize

A self-important singer accepts a career award while the interview reviews `douter`, `se douter`, past-participle agreement, and self-referential pronouns.

86 minOpen
Course 76

"Culture générale" : le jeu radiophonique

"General Knowledge": the radio quiz show

A radio quiz show goes badly for two contestants while the lesson reviews adverbs in `-ment`, passive workarounds, dimensions, and quiz vocabulary.

88 minOpen
Course 77

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson reviewing the passive, time adverbs, pronominal-verb meanings, dimensions, and common proverbs.

42 minOpen
Course 78

"Les voyages forment la jeunesse"

Travel broadens the mind

A couple plan an Ascension long weekend near Nîmes while the lesson focuses on double pronouns, travel vocabulary, and colloquial family speech.

88 minOpen
Course 79

Il faut que je trouve une bonne excuse...

I have to find a good excuse...

Martin needs a tactful way out of helping a demanding family acquaintance, while the lesson introduces the present subjunctive.

90 minOpen
Course 80

"Notre action ne dépend que de vous."

Our action depends only on you.

A report on strike plans turns into a union speech about sick leave, double standards, and the subjunctive after demands and expectations.

90 minOpen
Course 81

La réaction des patrons

The bosses' reaction

Employers discuss a union response, balancing formal labour vocabulary with more subjunctive triggers such as `bien que`, `jusqu'à ce que`, and `pourvu que`.

90 minOpen
Course 82

Qu'ils sont idiots !

How idiotic they are!

A pollster tries to interview an uninterested passer-by, while the lesson develops formal questions, negative indefinites, and more subjunctive patterns.

88 minOpen
Course 83

Du beurre dans les épinards...

A little bit extra...

A morning radio quiz uses food idioms to teach colloquial expressions such as earning a little extra, meeting halfway, and fainting.

88 minOpen
Course 84

Révision

Revision

A revision lesson reviewing the subjunctive, pronoun order, negative constructions, formal inverted questions, and food idioms.

45 minOpen
Course 85

Comment ça, je massacre le français ?

What Do You Mean, I'm Slaughtering French?

A playful lesson contrasting everyday spoken questions with more formal and elegant French forms.

44 minOpen
Course 86

Un entretien avec un chasseur de têtes

An Interview With A Headhunter

A business lesson centered on relative pronouns, executive recruitment, and formal professional vocabulary.

46 minOpen
Course 87

Le commissaire Périer mène l'enquête

Superintendent Périer Leads The Investigation

A detective story reviewing idioms around investigation, suspicion, danger, and the pluperfect.

45 minOpen
Course 88

Le commissaire Périer mène l'enquête (suite)

Superintendent Périer Leads The Investigation (Continued)

The investigation continues with a slang-heavy briefing and several subjunctive forms after indefinite expressions and superlatives.

45 minOpen
Course 89

Il faut le faire !

That Takes Some Doing!

A winter-holiday setback teaches a cluster of idiomatic expressions built with `faire`.

45 minOpen
Course 90

"Le" ou "la" ? - Les deux !

"Le" Or "La"? - Both!

A wordplay lesson on French nouns whose gender changes their meaning.

45 minOpen
Course 91

Révision

Review

A review lesson consolidating interrogatives, the causative, the subjunctive, `dont`, the pluperfect, and recent slang.

35 minOpen
Course 92

Un magazine littéraire

A Literary Magazine Programme

A literary talk-show discussion introduces prefixes, the passé simple, and formal media register.

50 minOpen
Course 93

Un cours d'histoire : "Le jour de gloire est arrivé !"

A History Lesson: "The Day Of Glory Is Here!"

A dramatic retelling of the storming of the Bastille introduces more passé simple forms and historical vocabulary.

50 minOpen
Course 94

Les inconvénients du travail à domicile

The Drawbacks Of Working From Home

A broken home office setup reviews past conditional, colloquial contractions, and troubleshooting vocabulary.

45 minOpen
Course 95

Le JT du soir

The Evening News

A TV news bulletin introduces journalistic set phrases, reported conditionals, and vocabulary for public events.

45 minOpen
Course 96

Une émission-débat : "Réinventons le rire"

A Talk Show: "Let's Re-Invent Laughter"

A debate about humor introduces comedy vocabulary, prefixes, `-esse` nouns, and expressions around trust and suspicion.

45 minOpen
Course 97

En plein dans le mille !

Bull's-Eye!

A startup founder narrates a difficult product launch through business, sports, and boxing idioms.

45 minOpen
Course 98

Révision

Review

A review lesson consolidating the passé simple, affixes, the past conditional, gentilics, and sports idioms.

35 minOpen
Course 99

Incroyable mais vrai...

Incredible But True...

A friend reveals a supposedly hyper-sensitive city-planning project while reviewing future perfect, IT vocabulary, and useful idioms.

45 minOpen
Course 100

La langue française

The French Language

The final lesson celebrates French as a global language and reviews Francophone vocabulary, loanwords, and closing idioms.

45 minOpen