My partner and I want to work through a course together. He is a complete beginner and only knows English. I know French as a heritage speaker, and I think helping him work through beginner courses would help me brush up on my French skills, too.

We need a course or series of courses that is highly structured, self-paced, for complete beginners (ideally that takes students from A0 to A1), and costs less than ~$250.

A “French 101” MOOC would be perfect, but I can’t find anything like that. Please help?

If someone gives me advice in French to, let’s say, visit the best attractions in Paris, how would I affirm that statement without repeating everything they said. In essence, how would I say the equivalent to “ok, I will!” in French?

hello, i’ve decided that i want to learn french but i never tried before therefore i have no clue to where to start learning

do you guys have any pdf book suggestions for beginners? (id prefer if it was free, im a psychology student and a teacher so im really broke)

thank you so much in advance!!

I was told by my instructor that spoken French is very difficult to understand by new learners. They recommended me to listen to a lot of normal conversations to familiarize myself with the rhythm of the language.

I am trying to find a source to practice listening, like Youtube videos or podcasts, and preferably not AI. Any recommendations?

Hello. I am coming up with titles for a project and I’d like to use French, as the francophone world has left a significant mark on the Black world, from the works of Aime Césaire and Frantz Fanon to the Haitian Revolution. I was looking and it seems like “marron” is used interchangeably to mean “brown” the color and also “maroon” as in self-liberated formerly enslaved peoples. “Nouveau” came to mind for new/present-day but then I wondered if “nouveau marron” would make sense… any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Donc, j'utilise le app memrise pour pratiquer mon français. Mais, je crois que le app busu est un peu meilleur pour conjuguer les mots. J'aimerais entendre des avis et des suggestions à ce sujet.

Looking for French youtubers or podcasts that are good for novice/intermediate French learner. I’m mostly trying to get a hang on sentence structure and following along to longer, more complex French. Merci!

Hello everyone, I'm hoping to find an apartment in September because that's when my art prep school starts. I've heard that the apartment hunting process is unbelievably difficult for Paris. I have two cats that have to travel with me. I'd like to ask everyone if it possible to hunt for apartments virtually? I have a limited budget so I don't know if staying for months in Paris in an airbnb (I don't even know if the landlord would allow for pets) to apartment hunt would be the best idea.

I've searched around but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about this and would desperately love for your advice TT.

A friend of mines showed me a clip of that specific show, and now I'm watching it again with my ears listening attentively for any words I can catch.

For anyone in A2 or B1 who want to watch French and not feel overwhelmed.

For example, which of these is correct, and why?

Je ne pêche que dans les tropiques

Je pêche seulement dans les tropiques

Je pêche uniquement sous les tropiques

Subsequent question: from google translate/Deepl, it seems like ‘sous’ would be used here instead of ‘dans’. Why is this the case?

Merci d’avance pour votre réponse

Salut tout le monde ! 😊
Je suis brésilien, locuteur natif de portugais, et en ce moment, je me plonge dans l'apprentissage du français. J'aimerais beaucoup trouver quelqu'un dont la langue maternelle est le français pour pratiquer la conversation de manière amusante et enrichissante !

Voici l'idée :

• La moitié du temps, nous discuterons en français (pour que je puisse pratiquer et apprendre avec vous).
• L'autre moitié, nous discuterons en portugais (pour que vous puissiez pratiquer, et je pourrai vous aider).

Comme ça, nous en tirons tous les deux profit et partageons un échange culturel super intéressant ! Si cela vous tente, n'hésitez pas à laisser un commentaire ou à m'envoyer un message. Nous pourrons organiser des horaires qui conviennent à nous deux.

J'ai hâte d'avoir de vos nouvelles ! Merci beaucoup et à bientôt ! 

I want to say: "Everything is all right here, I hope you are fine as well over there".

So we are both in another continent and I want to 'make sure' that everything is fine over there.

I thought of this: << Tout va bien ici. J’éspere le meme chez vous >>

Qu'en pensez-vous?

Hey everyone. I'm French, and I just started a podcast all about France - how we really speak, our daily habits, and debunking popular myths about French culture. If you're curious about the real France beyond the stereotypes, this is for you!

And soon, I'll be adding a series of French lessons to help learners improve their language skills while exploring French culture.

Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7e7IfPIaVC2aO1km0JSA

I look forward to your feedback!

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I posted a while ago about my progress preparing for the DELF B1 exam in under a month, and I'm happy to report that I passed with a score of 90%!!!

The worst part, by far, was that they moved up my oral exam by a week, so I had to take that part with less than 3 weeks of preparation (really more like 2, because that was when they let me know the date had changed), and obviously that tends to be the most difficult for second language learners. That did end up being my lowest score, but given the circumstances I'm totally okay with that!

#My final scores:

Compréhension de l'orale: 24/25

Compréhension des écrites: 23/25

Production écrite: 23/25

Production orale: 20/25

Note finale: 90/100

So according to the email, apparently I'll get my diploma in 4-6 MONTHS, which is hilarious and the most French bureaucracy thing I think I've ever heard. But this score officially qualifies me for French citizenship, which was the whole point—woooooo!!! However, bonus, now my long-dormant passion for learning French has been fully reignited, and my 2025 goal is to pass the B2 test, which I think I'll be able to smash since B1 honestly felt pretty easy with very little preparation. And mayyyyybe I'll even go for C1 this year depending on how B2 prep goes (but I realize that's a stretch goal).

Bonnes études!

Bonjour!

I am currently in 11th grade and English is my second language. I am being pressured to learn French now because I might have to go to college in France. It’s been a few days since I’ve read up and watched youtube videos about study plans to learn this language, however I’m still unsure if the plan I made is effective and efficient.

Currently this is my study routine: Pimsleur = 2 lessons/day, 1hr Anki 5000 common words flashcard = 15mins The Perfect French with Dylane = 2 videos /day

My schedule isn’t really that packed and I have a lot of free time, so I’ve been thinking if I should add more time or mode of learning but I’m clueless. Please let me know your thoughts!

Les personages dans mes reves qui parlent francais toujours le parle mieux que moi. Je suis tres jaloux d'eux. Mais c'est toujours moi qui fait le reve, donc c'est peut etre moi apres tout qui le parle aussi bien! Peut-etre dans le prochain reve je peux leur demander, est-ce que vous pouvez m'aider avec mon francais s'il vous plait?

ok so I've been learning French since I was 5yrs old amd when someone speaks to me in french I understand tye problem is that I don't know how to articulate verbes in my head or to use different verb tenses without help from a theory book or something. but I really wanna learn to speak too, so would a semester in a French university help me develop that side?

Et si leur nombre s'accroît, c'est que quelque part, les Français ont senti que, face aux nouvelles technologies, il fallait créer des liens, conjuguer le passé et le présent, ne pas s'abandonner à l'isolement, à l'atomisation, à la perte d'identité individuelle et sociale. Et ça, c'est encourageant !

Hi, I want to learn French. I am 16 and attend high school in America, where I have been learning Spanish. I would like to know where to begin and how to approach my learning to get the most out of the experience. Please leave any suggestions you have in the comments! Thank you!

• Les Français passent plus de temps à table ensemble, et là, c'est un phénomène inédit et unique.

• Que signifie, d'après vous, cette tendance ?

• Eh bien, fondamentalement, deux choses. La première, que, spontanément, les Français ont compris, peut-être plus que les autres peuples ou bien avant eux, les dangers de l'individualisme qui sépare et détruit toute collectivité, toute solidarité. Et la deuxième, que justement le temps des repas, où l'on mange et trinque ensemble, est un des meilleurs moments d'échange et de fraternité et donc, sert d'exutoire aux problèmes que nous crée la société des nouvelles technologies.

Dernièrement I’ve been getting french videos dans my feed et j’ai vu ce mot que je suis pas sûr que veux dire <<beuteu>> Je sais que c’est an slang mais j’ai recherché sur chatgpt et il dit que ça veut dire “butt” mais the comments on instagram said that it means 🍆.

Quelqu’un peut m’aider?

Sorry if anyone is bothered by the franglish

Frensh is my second language and I’ve studied it like since i was 4 so it’s like over a decade that i started learning french yet i can’t formulate a sentence the problem is that i understand it in fact i study all school subjects in french so i understand it i just can’t speak it and English is actually my 4rth language ik it’s a bit actually not so good but it’s so much better than my french i tried literally everything i took online classes i tried self tutoring and i still can’t speak it .A lot of people like my tutors ,people that I seek for help tells me to think in french so i can speak it , it just doesn’t work and in addition to all this my grammar is kinda bad which doesn’t really seem to be a problem for me in English ( ik i made a lot of mistakes but what i mean is that ik nothing about English grammar but i still can speak it in french i have to think really hard to form the most simple sentence) so it’s not only that i can’t communicate in it but also the simplest smallest stuff confuse me like y, en ,…😭😭ik i sound so dumb so please if u have any tips how i can improve my communication skills in the shortest amount of time possible tell me 😔

I know this is a HUGE leap, but my university has a partnership with multiple french universities, and they require DALF C1 for the best exchange programs. Time-wise, I have around 1 to 2 years to get to that level, and I'm willing to study hard for it, as to not throw away this huge opportunity.

Does anyone have good resources in how to best acquire this extremely high level of french ? I figured that probably doing a lot of reading is a good start.

Hello, I just started learning French maybe a week ago. I made some French friends over Christmas and picked up some phrases and decided I wanted to learn. I don’t know where to start besides Duolingo and have a 5 day streak.

I learn better when I can read but the language is so difficult for me! I’m a native English speaker and I know some Spanish which I live for how simple the alphabet is, but my god does the French alphabet make me feel like someone picking up English!! Why is water spelt “eau” but only the /u/ is pronounced?!? There’s so many silent letters (to my English ears) and letter combinations. I just want to be able to read a French book or text with proper pronunciation even if I don’t know what the words mean.

Any suggested resources on this?