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The French Playground
Real French, one game at a time. Grammar drills, listening rounds with actual audio, culture checks and a proper level test: everything unlocks on the page, and your inbox stays out of it unless you invite us in.
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Filter by what you want to work on. Every game is free, scored on the page, and over in a few minutes.
French Level Test — 20 questions (CEFR A0 to C2)
Twenty questions, an honest CEFR estimate, and the answer key on the page.
Play A0 to C2Level testFrench Level Test — CEFR A0 to C2
The fifty-question placement: long enough to tell B1 from B2 properly.
Play A1GrammarLe or la?
Le problème, la plage, l’eau: sixteen nouns, and the articles French refuses to explain.
Play A2GrammarDu, de la, des
Some water, some bread, no money: French has four ways to say some and one way to say none.
Play B1GrammarPassé composé or imparfait?
The phone rang, the rain fell, and one of those verbs is in the wrong tense.
Play A2GrammarÀ, de, en, chez
Chez le coiffeur, au Japon, à vélo: fifteen blanks where English logic picks the wrong one.
Play B2GrammarSubjunctive or not?
Fourteen sentences, one mood decision each. Après que is waiting for you.
Play B1GrammarY and en
Say yes to coffee without repeating the coffee. Twelve rewrites, two tiny pronouns.
Play B1VocabularyFalse friends
Actuellement is not actually, and the pharmacy one is worse. Sixteen French traps.
Play A1VocabularyOrder at the café
Espresso, the bill, free water: fourteen orders the waiter will not translate for you.
Play A2VocabularyFind your way
Aller simple or aller-retour, quai or voie: buy the wrong word and the train leaves without you.
Play B2VocabularyStreet French
Bouffer, chelou, du coup: the French your textbook skipped and your colleagues use daily.
Play B2VocabularyIdioms, literally
She posed you a rabbit. Fifteen idioms your dictionary translates straight into nonsense.
Play A1VocabularyNumbers, dates and time
Ninety is four twenties and ten, and huit jours is a week. French counting has opinions.
Play A2🎧 AudioListeningPoison or poisson?
One s separates the fish from the poison. Sixteen pairs your ear keeps swapping.
Play A2🎧 AudioListeningNumbers by ear
Soixante-quinze, quatre-vingt-onze: the numbers France says fast and expects you to catch.
Play A2🎧 AudioListeningWhat did they say?
One line, heard once, at normal speed. The cashier is not going to repeat it.
Play B1🎧 AudioListeningFast French
Spoken at real speed: one misheard number and you show up Thursday instead of Tuesday.
Play B2🎧 AudioListeningThe liaison trap
Les héros or les zéros: eleven sentences where one borrowed consonant decides everything.
Play B1🎧 AudioListeningPick the exact sentence
Every option sounds right out loud. Only one survives being written down.
Play All levelsCultureFrance, the map in your head
Which coast, which station, which city for the wine: the France you plan trips around.
Play All levelsCultureBread, cheese and the rules
The cheese arrives before dessert, and everyone saw where you put your bread.
Play A2CultureTu or vous?
Your boss says tu, the baker never will, and the in-laws are a decade of vous.
Play B1CultureHow France actually works
Sunday, noon, and all of August: fourteen questions on when France is actually open.
Play C1Expert cornerThe C1 gauntlet
Subjonctif passé, ne explétif, dont versus duquel: the grammar that separates fluent from good.
Play C1Expert cornerWhat natives actually say
Every sentence is grammatical. Only one would pass unnoticed at the coffee machine.
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Lost a round? The guide exists.
Every trap in these games has its full explanation in the Learning Center: guides sorted by the same levels as the games, from articles and past tenses to slang and register.
Free French quizzes and games, scored on the page
Every game here is a short, focused French quiz: noun gender, past tenses, prepositions, false friends, slang, and listening rounds built on real recorded audio you can replay as often as you like. Nothing hides behind an account. You play, you get a score, and the answer key explains every question: not just what was right, but why the wrong option tempted you.
Where to start depends on what hurts. If you have no idea where you stand, the CEFR level test gives you an honest estimate from A0 to C2 in a few minutes. If your reading is fine but spoken French turns to soup, start with the listening games. And when a quiz keeps exposing the same gap, the Learning Center has the full guide on that topic, while The French Briefing gives you real French to read every day.
Are these French quizzes really free?
Yes. Every game is free, the score and the full answer key are shown on the page, and there is no account to create. Your email is only ever used if you ask for your answer key by email.
What levels do the games cover?
From absolute beginner to near-native: each card shows its CEFR range, from A1 gender drills to the C1 grammar gauntlet. The level test itself spans A0 to C2, in a 20-question or 50-question version.
Do the listening games use real audio?
Yes: every listening question plays a recorded French voice at natural speed, and you can replay it as many times as you like, including inside the answer key after you finish.
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