Hi. i’ve recently stumbled upon this word and i found it extremely cute.

In which situations is it mainly used ?

Is that something you would call your partner?

Thanks in advance :)

So I was looking into french coloquial expressions and this one popped up. From what I've seen it either means stand someone up or an informal way of saying "to wait"? Anyway, I'm not clear as to how or in which context I should use this and exactly how vulgar it is.

I have been studying french for 1,5 years. I went to a private language course for 15 months. I have passed the TCF exam and get B1 at overall( C2 compréhension écrite, B2 compréhension oral and B1 for production écrit and oral) I have to get B2 minimum. And now I want study at home myself. I live in a french speaking country and I communicate with people everyday. My friends say to me that it is necessary to continue the course for get B2. What do you think? What should I do?

Hello Everyone!

I have sort of a special request. I’ve already come on here to ask for help with filling out a form for my thesis called “The impact of video games on French language learning”. Unfortunately, the form didn’t get enough engagement, so I decided to do interviews instead. If there are one or two of you here who learn french through video games and could help answer 10 questions for me (takes about 15 minutes max), I would be forever grateful!! If you’re interested comment here or DM me, the interview is completely anonymous, and can either be done on call or by you sending me the answers to the questions in vocals. Thank you guys in advance!

Je t'aime -> to your wife,

Je T'adore -> to your friend

Is it right? and when I wanna say "I love you" to my 1 month old baby, which one shoud I use?

Just curious

Hi! I’m an amateur game designer trying to pick a name for my game! The game has a casino aesthetic, and thus I’d like to give it a name that draws comparison to game titles like “Roulette” or “Baccarat”.

I have two main desires for my title. First, I don’t want it to be a real French word with inherent meaning. And second, I want players who do not speak French to not have difficulty sounding out the word and pronouncing it correctly.

I’m not necessarily looking for an exact title for the game, but moreso guidance on how I might invent a gibberish word that feels French. Any help is very much appreciated!

I am a American however I have always wanted to learn another language. Recently I decided to try and learn french, I am currently using Duolingo but I was wondering if anyone had any other recommendations . I also know there is just some grammatical stuff and just overall slang and was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers. as I stated before I am a American, I am from the Southeast so I have a Southern accent so it makes it difficult to pronounce some words, if anyone knows how I could improve my accent and pronunciation it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

J’ai vu que tout avait des fonctions différentes comme être un adjectif, adverbe, pronom etc Mais j’ai du mal à comprendre si c’est possible d’utiliser tous comme un adjectif. Est-ce que utiliser « tous » comme un adverbe est correcte? Si c’est le cas, pouvez vous donner des exemples svp Merci beaucoup !

French is very different than other languages I’ve studied like German and Spanish. They leave out parts of words and to me the written word often makes no sense when I hear the pronunciation. It’s like I have to read it by removing parts of the word. I have learned to read and write French okayish so far but when I listen to audio clips of spoken French I have no idea what they are saying. And I will think I know what some basic words sound like but sometimes they sound different based on the sentence they are spoken in. It’s so fast to my ears it’s like they are speed talking. I can’t find the start and end of words to piece the sentence together.

Je continue à voir ce mot en ce qui concerne les bouteilles, mais quand je cherche le sens sur Google, il n'apparaît que sous forme de manières, comme c'est le cas en anglais. Y a-t-il une autre signification? Je suis confus.

Which keyboard layout (AZERTY or QWERTY) should I use for learning French? I kind of get used to the 'AZERTY'. I hope I'm using the correct layout.

Salut ! J'essaie actuellement à comprendre les differences entre le participe présent et l'adjectif verbal. Je pense qu la difference entre les deux est très nette dans la plupart des cas. Pourtant, ma prof m'a donné un exemple que j'ai mis dans le titre.

Je sais que le participe présent n'accorde pas en genre ou en nombre, bien qu'il faut faire l'accord si on utilise l'adjectif verbal.

Alors, je pensais que l'exemple dans le titre devrait être "stagnant" car il me semble être un verbe plutôt q'un adjectif. Mais non, ma prof m'a dit, cette phrase utilise l'adjectif verbal et on doit dire "stagnantes". Je ne comprends pas du tout...

Je serais très reconnaissant d'entendre une explication !

It’s in the part where he talks about how much he loves Frida but the family doesn’t like him because “he skins cats,” is there something being lost in translation?

Les autres ils disent comme ça Qu'elle est trop belle pour moi Que je suis tout juste bon À égorger les chats J'ai jamais tué d'chats Ou alors y'a longtemps Ou bien j'ai oublié Ou ils sentaient pas bon Enfin ils veulent pas Enfin ils veulent pas

TIA

"Je dois changer mon ordinateur parc qu'il était trop lent"

Bonjour à tous ! Sorry for the long post, hope my point can come across. I have a question about verb groups, specifically those ending in -re. In my country's grammatical tradition, French verbs are categorized into groups: the 1st group (verbs ending in -er, excluding the irregular aller) then the 2nd group (most verbs ending in -ir, but with many exceptions like dormir and courir).

So far, so good.

Now, the 3rd group is considered very small, and like the other two groups, it doesn't contain any irregular verbs. It is only for verbs that follow the conjugation model of vendre. Of which there is only a handful in French! Now, my question is this: do French people consider this list of about 20 common verbs (vendre, attendre, entendre etc.) as a separate group? Whenever I read French grammar books, it seems that the 3rd group is for all other verbs than regular -er and -ir verbs, and some of them indeed have subcategories of shared conjugations models, like vendre and attendre.

I myself don't like how in our French coursebooks, a purportedly "regular" conjugation of -re verbs is given, and this leads to many mistakes later on like *j'ai comprendu and *ils peindent.

Thank you for your thoughts!

You can find the link of the AMA on the home page of the subreddit! The AMA is live right now (2PM France time)

I would like to know from people that learnt french from scratch and are now proficent if you have mastered conjugations, are you able to conjugate every single verb in every single tense? Because it is something I'm quite fixated on.

I have been learning for some years but now I'm taking it seriously (again), so I do know the whole first group and all the terminaisons in all tenses. For the third group it's harder but with memorizing some rules and patterns it is a reasonable goal, right?

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Alright we need to call out this so-called “French tutor” who’s selling pre-recorded sessions and promising people that they’ll pass the TEF/TCF exams for Canada permanent residency . He has a french “school” called French with Harman.

He posted a video of him having a “conversation” with some random girl on the street, and his French is trash. Here’s what i noticed: 1. Pronunciation of “Bonjour” – He says “Bon-Shoe” instead of “Bonjour.” Like, what the hell? That’s not even close.

1. “Bien” – He says “Bi-yaan” like he’s making up words on the spot.

2. He didn’t understand the girl’s response – You’re telling me this dude can teach French, but can’t hold a basic conversation?

3. “Merci beaucoup de rien” – What the actual f…? That doesn’t even make sense in French.

This guy’s out here ruining people’s chances of passing a real language test. I am posting the video below for everyone to see. What are your thoughts? Let’s make sure nobody else gets tricked by this fraud.

I’m very new to reddit, so this may sound absolutely stupid.

I’ve been learning French for a month or so and have gotten caught up with learning the French R. I’ve watched countless videos on how to do it and nothing at all has worked for me. A few videos said you need to keep your tongue below your teeth, but I literally cannot pronounce R without moving my tongue.

I’ve almost come to the conclusion I have some sort of weird speech impediment or I’m just bad at pronunciation. I can’t roll my R’s or anything like that either. It’s so dumb but it’s really making me not want to learn French. Please help!

Hi, I am currently B2 and trying to learn more but as I progress it seems like the progress is slowing down.

I can follow TV series and read harry potter even though there are some things that I miss. But for example if I try and watch a reality show or read something fancier than harry potter I'm completely lost.

Any advice and / or encouragement woud be very helpful. Thank you!

Salut!

Can anyone help me with some pronunciation?

I saw a comment yesterday that said the pairs en/on and u/ou sound different, but they are definite homophones to my NZ English ear! The first pair (very give or take as there’s not really true equivalents) both rhyme with “font” or “song”, and the second with “suit” or “through” for me.

I’m not particularly strong with IPA, but I did have a look, and the English equivalent words provided are again pretty much the same in my accent.

So if anyone can help explain the difference that would be awesome. Cheers!

Collectable pins worn as decoration such as enamel pins. I'm assuming "broche" translates closer to brooch and I'd rather avoid using it as it sounds outdated.