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— Yes, that Macron quote. And yes, he was talking to you.

Not textbook French. The French for your visa appointment, your team meeting, the wine bar where everyone suddenly stops speaking English. Matched to your level, your goals, your actual Tuesday morning.

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70+Topics covered
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EVERY APP TEACHES YOU
THE SAME FRENCH.

Someone relocating to Lyon doesn’t need the same French as someone managing a Paris office. A retiree navigating French healthcare has nothing in common with a 28-year-old trying to understand why everyone laughed at the dinner party. Yet every course gives them all the same Lesson 1.

You’re learning French for a reason. We built around that reason. Maybe you need to survive a préfecture appointment without losing your mind. Maybe you need to stop your French colleagues from switching to English every time you open your mouth. Maybe you just want to understand what Macron actually said on the news — not the CNN summary, the actual words, the tone, the subtext that every French person caught and you missed. Your French should serve your life. Not a curriculum.
Context beats grammar. Every time. You don’t need to conjugate 40 verbs. You need to know that saying “je veux” in a bakery makes you sound like a demanding five-year-old, and that tu vs vous is not about grammar — it’s about whether someone trusts you. The cultural rules nobody teaches are the ones that matter most. We teach the French that changes how people treat you.
You don’t need more content. You need the right content, in the right order. The daily Briefing 📰 gives you real French news every day. The Learning Center 📚 has 100+ articles sorted by what you actually need. The Level Quiz 🐭 tells you where you stand in 3 minutes. And the Pass 📈 ties it all into a weekly system that moves your CEFR level — not your streak count. Start free. Upgrade when it makes sense for you.

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Macron dissolved the Assemblée. A strike shut down the SNCF. The boulangerie next door raised the price of a baguette to €1.30 and people are losing their minds. You should understand all of that — in French, with context, not the two-sentence CNN summary. That’s what the Briefing does. Every day. Free.

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THE LEARNING CENTER 📚

You don’t need 100 articles. You need the 5 that match your situation. Moving to France? Start with surviving the préfecture. Managing a French team? Start with the expressions that actually matter in meetings. Trying to stop embarrassing yourself at restaurants? Yeah, we have that too.

🧱 Grammar & Method 🍷 Culture & Society ☕ Travel & Daily Life 💼 Professional & Expat
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One lesson a week. Built around real French from real news — not a textbook written in 2003. Audio you can replay on the RER. Flashcards that match your life. A CEFR level that moves because you earned it, not because we inflated it. Twenty minutes. That’s less than one episode of Emily in Paris. And significantly more useful.

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WHERE DO YOU START?

“I just moved to France and I’m drowning.”

Admin, Healthcare & Daily Life

The préfecture wants 14 documents. Your landlord speaks zero English. The pharmacist is asking questions you don’t understand. This is the French that keeps you alive the first year.

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“I sound like Google Translate in meetings.”

Meetings, Emails & Work Culture

You conjugate perfectly and still lose the room. Because French professional culture runs on register, subtext, and things nobody says out loud but everyone notices.

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“I refuse to point at the menu in Paris.”

Restaurants, Wine & Social Life

You want to order the plat du jour without panicking, understand the wine list without pretending, and stop people from switching to English the moment you open your mouth.

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“I had been studying French for years and still panicked on the phone. FTE gave me a system. Within a month I was handling appointments on my own. Actual ones. In French.”

James, Regular Reader. Living in France.

FAIR QUESTIONS.

I’m a complete beginner. Is this for me?
Yes. The Learning Center 📚 covers A1 to C2. The Briefing 📰 is tagged by level. Most of our readers started between A1 and B1. You don’t need to be “ready” first.
I already use Duolingo. What’s different?
Duolingo is great at A1. After that, it trains recognition — you learn to tap the right answer. You don’t learn to speak in a meeting or handle a phone call. We pick up where the owl leaves off.
What is free right now?
The French Briefing 📰 — daily news + comprehension quiz. The Learning Center 📚 — 100+ articles sorted by level. The Level Quiz 🐭 — your CEFR level in 3 minutes. All free, no account needed.
What is the French Progress Pass?
The premium system 📈. Weekly audio lessons built around real French, flashcards, transcripts, CEFR tracking. $19/month. Less than one hour of private tutoring. Cancel in 2 clicks — no contract, no guilt. Launching soon.
I don’t live in France. Is this relevant?
Half our readers live outside France. If you work with French colleagues, travel regularly, plan to move, or just want to understand the news without subtitles — this is built for you.
How is this different from a course?
Courses teach grammar in a vacuum. We teach French through real content — news, culture, professional situations. You learn the language and the context at the same time. Twenty minutes a day, not twenty hours a week.

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