Get ready to use French on your next trip
Prepare complete exchanges for cafés, shops, transport and everyday encounters. Learn an opening, anticipate a reply and keep a clarification phrase ready. Choose the situations you need and practise the audio before your next conversation.
Un café, s’il vous plaît… easy! ☕
Prepare for the conversation ahead.
A trip is full of small exchanges: buying a ticket, ordering something to eat, finding a place or asking someone to repeat. These guides help you prepare useful words and understand the situation before you need them.
A useful way to begin
Choose the part of your trip that is coming next. Save a few phrases, say them aloud and practise the question you are most likely to ask.
Prepare your first exchanges
Introduce yourself, greet someone and ask for repetition or help.
Travel & Everyday FrenchFrench Travel Phrases for Hotels, Shops and Cafés
Practise French travel phrases for hotels, cafés, shops and transport. Learn follow-up replies and polite ways to ask for help, with audio. Knowing your first sentence…Read the article
Travel & Everyday FrenchIntroduce Yourself in French: Phrases for Real Situations
Learn French introductions for social and professional situations. Compare formal and informal wording, follow-up questions and example templates. A good introduction gives the other person enough…Read the article
Try it yourself
Travel essentials precede your personal introduction.
Rehearse your introduction and a request for help.
Rehearse before you arrive.
Practise ordering, asking for directions or sorting out a booking. Tell your tutor which situations you want to try.
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Arrive and find your way
Ask for a ticket and navigate a short journey.
Travel & Everyday FrenchBuy Train Tickets in French: Phrases and Station Words
Buy train tickets in French, use a ticket machine and ask about seats or platforms. Practise common questions and phrases for changed plans. The phrases help…Read the article
Travel & Everyday FrenchFrench Phrases for Paris: Métro, Cafés and Directions
Prepare French phrases for Paris cafés, shops, the métro and directions. Listen to examples and learn how to ask for help or clarification. These phrases cover…Read the article
Travel & Everyday FrenchMontmartre in French: Walks, Cafés and Useful Phrases
Explore Montmartre with French phrases for directions, cafés and art. Follow a walking outline and learn vocabulary for the neighbourhood. Use the neighbourhood as a setting…Read the article
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Train travel is the main situation. Paris and Montmartre are optional location branches.
Say your destination, date and ticket request aloud.
Order and pay
Complete a greeting, order and payment exchange.
Travel & Everyday FrenchOrder at a French Bakery: Bread, Pastries and Phrases
Order bread and pastries in French, ask about types and slicing, and handle payment. Listen to practical bakery phrases with translations. Start with a greeting and…Read the article
Travel & Everyday FrenchFrench Café Etiquette: Ordering, Prices and the Bill
Learn how to order in a French café, read service-area prices and ask for the bill. Compare practical phrases and common customs with examples. Café customs…Read the article
Travel & Everyday FrenchOrder Drinks in French: Bar Phrases and Apéro Vocabulary
Order drinks in French, ask about sizes and ingredients, and request the bill. Learn bar vocabulary and regional drink names with examples. Ordering becomes easier when…Read the article
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Start at the bakery, extend to the café, consult bars only if relevant.
Rehearse an order, a question and payment.
Handle a reservation
State a date, time and party size; change or cancel a booking.
Travel & Everyday FrenchFrench Phone Call Phrases: Answer, Ask and Clarify
Prepare for French phone calls with phrases for answering, asking for repetition, leaving voicemail and ending a call, with translations and audio. Phone calls remove the…Read the article
Travel & Everyday FrenchBook a Restaurant in French: Phrases and Replies
Book a restaurant table in French, understand common replies and change a reservation. Practise phone, arrival and ordering phrases. A reservation involves details such as the…Read the article
Try it yourself
Prepare the phone exchange before restaurant rehearsal.
Role-play a booking and a change of plans.
Ask for help
Describe a symptom and ask for clarification of instructions.
Try it yourself
This is language rehearsal, not medical advice. For disrupted journeys, link back to the existing train-guide section instead of duplicating the article.
Practise describing a symptom and asking for clarification.
Give one idea a little practice.
You do not need a long reading list for today. Choose one guide and leave with something you can actually use.
Notice the pattern
Read the examples before trying to memorise a rule. In the Foundations lessons, use the French audio to connect the written phrase with its sound.
Try it for yourself
Use the exercises or linked practice where available. Look at why an answer works, then make a new sentence about your own life.
Meet it again
Listen for the pattern in a conversation or a short text. Return to the lesson when you need a reminder, then choose your next useful topic.
Make this the French you actually use.
You have explored the lessons. Now put the language to work. Practise the mistakes that hold you back, then take your French into a real conversation.
Rehearse before you arrive.
Practise ordering, asking for directions or sorting out a booking. Tell your tutor which situations you want to try.
Choose a tutor, compare lesson prices and book a conversation with a clear goal. Bring one point from your reading, try it aloud and leave with something specific to practise next.
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