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.
Six guides, one per section.
If you only read six things here, read these — one from each part of the Learning Center, each linking you to the logical next step.
The French you need before you land
Perfect grammar will not help you buy a train ticket. Ten solid sentences and enough ear training to survive the answer back will.
Cafés, phone calls, bakeries, metro, restaurants. Built around real situations, not textbook chapters.
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Get an email when a new article is published. A fresh explanation, a useful phrase or a new topic to explore, ready when you have a moment for French.
Use the articles. Then choose the next move.
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