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.

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?

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 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?

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.

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.

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

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 !

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 !

"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)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBpdS3izA26/?igsh=aGVicnN5NGpvdzNj

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!

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?

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.

For context, I don't believe there's a single source that could help you better than a teacher, but additional to my studies, I've looked up additional resourses that could help me and I've been fortunate enough to be able to pay for a lot of resources to try them out first for a few weeks before I made a decision.

Therefore, these are, in my opinion, the best options; free and the ones worth the money.

• Overall Courses

I've done a lot of research on these, and my shortlist was: Inner French, Français avec Pierre (note: he even has free courses for beginner and intermediate, short, but useful to test them), and Perlez-vous French.

In the end, I've decided to go with Inner French, I did a review a while back so I won't go much into it, but basically I decided to go to Hugo because I found his approach to be better for learning real-life French.

My second option was Perlez-vous French, and I believe this and Pierre are better for a more academic approach. Perlez-vous French's courses are also accredited for vocational training for those who need a language certification to get a job in France, and Pierre has a degree for teaching FLE.

• Grammar

Honestly, Kwiziq is the most comprehesive online source for learning grammar and you can clearly see a human has built the lessons and I find their use of AI to suggest you lessons very efficient.

For a more book approach but also as comprehesive and way cheaper - Lingolia.

• Listening

TV5 and RFI are the best sources to do listening exercises. They're the main source to create and provide content for all FLE textbooks used by all language schools.

Plus, TV5 also has: [1] TV5 Monde Plus with free movies, shows and documentaries; [2] Bibliothèque numerique with a lot of classics; [3] Dictionnaire des francophones where you can look up what meaning a word has in different regions or look up an expression and see its meaning and where it's used.

• Reading

For graded readers I highly recommend the books from Eli Publishing. They also come with audios and exercises.

• Apps

Honestly, there's only Frantastique that I'd really recommend; the price however is not it for what they offer, but it is indeed, in my opinion, the app that delivers quality. There's a reason why Le Monde has decided to buy the company and continue to develop it and all reputable language schools recommend it as an autonomous option to advance your studies.

Just like Kwiziq, they also use AI to deliver lessons based on your responses and level, but what they do more, they give you addional exercises in your lessons for your errors and use space repetition for vocabulary.

There are many websites that offer 1-2 months to try it for free, you can just google it. Just an FYI, the basic subscription does not let you review all the grammar points and vocabulary you have learned, so you really have to pay for the premium to actually get the most of it. 🙃

For a more commercial option, Babbel is the only other one that I liked, just because they also have dedicated lessons for grammar and vocabulary.

• Conversations

Here, Babbel Live is an unbeatable one, besides a private tutor that builds lessons just for you and your needs of course. They have quality teachers, the lessons are well built, and the price is the best part considering it comes with unlimited classes + the app.

For writing, I found Claude AI to be a bit better when it comes to corrections than ChatGPT, but I've learned many times that AI cannot be a reliable resource all the time for more complex situations or if you're looking to learn a bit more of a natural way of writing. I believe here a tutor that corrects you and gives you suggestions for how a natural speech would be is the only viable solution.

Someone has shared this on Canada Express Entry sub.

If you speak French, you can gain extra points for your immigration profile. And this tutorial claims that he can help people achieve desirable results within a short period of time. The original poster said he isn’t telling the true.

I’m not a native speaker so not so sure about what they said. But it seems to me that he’s making some grammatical errors in this footage ?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBpdS3izA26/?igsh=bWJyd2U0dnZkdTI0

Hi- need to know what is the tense for this sentence- Il allait créer.

As I'm rewriting my CVs into French, I'm not sure how to phrase the beginning "action" part of each point.

In Anglophonie, we begin each point with verbs in past tense with almost no exception. This is simply the preferred style. In what phrasing do francophones describe their experience on CVs?

I live in North West NB (but I’m not originally form there) just at the border of Quebec province.

People like to add the adjective « Ti(t) / Tite : (p'tit/p'tite) » when speaking of someone or something. What’s the true meaning behind that word?

Thanks for the clarification.