Hello, I am currently learning French with Langua. I am somewhere between A1 and A2, depending on the topic, but leaning more towards A1.

The plan is to take a break of several months up to a year next summer and spend it in France. My goal is to live in a city, immerse myself as deeply as possible in it, and learn both the culture and the language. Honestly, I hope to reach the B2 level during my stay.

Perhaps I can also do a few jobs in France (I am an EU citizen) to get as much depth and variety as possible. By that I mean temporary/side jobs, nothing more. The only goal is to have a lot of variety, different subject areas, and meet different people. I also have hobbies that I would like to use to make contacts, as they are well-suited for that.

What would you recommend for how I can best prepare for this time? I think Langua is quite good, but I don't think it's enough. Plus, winter is coming and I have a lot of time to study. I think 0.5 to 1 hour a day and maybe 2 hours on the weekends should mostly be doable. I think the basics of a language are important—"classic" tourist stuff, but also things related to my hobbies so I can find a better entry point.

My main focus is on speaking correctly and understanding. Writing is secondary and less important.

Courses are currently offered in my area, but they are fully booked or don't seem to be taking place... so I am mainly focusing on self-study. I have also tried video chats, but I didn't like them that much; right now, they just overwhelm me a bit.

Do you have any tips for me?

السلام عليكم

I'm a beginner in french and i'm looking for Arabic speakers to learn and study french together.

We can help each other, practice with each other, and check up on each other to see our progress.

If you're interested tell me and i will text you.

Btw i'm Egyptian :)

السلام عليكم.

Selon un nouveau classement, les M&M’s sont les bonbons les plus populaires pour Halloween aux États-Unis. CandyStore a utilisé les données de ventes des 18 dernières années pour faire le classement 2026. Les Sour Patch Kids sont deuxièmes, suivis des Skittles à la troisième place. Les Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups sont quatrièmes, et les NERDS Gummy Clusters sont à la cinquième place. Le classement prend en compte les bonbons que les Américains achètent avant Halloween chaque année.

Vocabulaire : selon = according to / classement (m) = ranking / bonbons (m pl) = candy / données (f pl) = data / ventes (f pl) = sales / deuxièmes = second / suivis = followed / troisième = third / quatrièmes = fourth / cinquième = fifth / prendre en compte = to take into account / acheter = to buy

English translation

M&M’s is the number one Halloween candy

According to a new ranking, M&M’s is the most popular Halloween candy in the United States. CandyStore used sales data from the past 18 years to make the 2026 ranking. Sour Patch Kids are second, followed by Skittles in third place. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are fourth, and NERDS Gummy Clusters are in fifth place. The ranking takes into account the candy Americans buy before Halloween each year.

You can read more news stories at Le News, In Easy French

Hey there!

I’m looking to get my French back to where it used to be. I used to live out in Canada and so spoke it quite regularly!

Would anyone be up for kind of a penpal situation where we can chat French and learn?

Cheers!

"Je préparais le dîner quand il est venu" and "Quand je préparais le dîner, il est venu"

Merci!

I want to try Focus Frame French.

May I know if anyone can share referral code for the discount please ?

Hello,

I'm looking to gain permanent residency in Quebec in order to remain here so I need to really knuckle down and start learning French, quickly.

Unfortunately i'm not able to afford to attend a formal course and so I'm hoping i can get to A1/A2 level by self learning. The thing is though, I'm someone that needs some kind of structure to learn effectively. There are many links to youtube videos, podcast recommendations that i've seen on this sub, but I have no idea where to start and what to work towards. I'm aiming to set aside at least 10 hours a week but am unsure how to make the best use of that time.

Would anyone have some suggestions for me please?

Thanks

Is it correct to say

"Il est le chanteur le plus célèbre"

Today my professor said its not correct.

He said it has to be either

"Il est chanteur, il est célèbre"

Or

"C'est le chanteur le plus célèbre"

Salut !

Je suis Français et avec un ami, on aimerait réunir des apprenants pour parler français, s’entraider et progresser ensemble dans une ambiance sympa.

Demain, vendredi, on commence avec des jeux en vocal, histoire de parler un peu et faire connaissance en s’amusant.

On proposera aussi d’autres activités et ateliers pour pratiquer ensemble.

Ça tente qui ?

My kids are in a magnet school that teaches foreign language starting in kindergarten, mine was assigned French (there are four language options). Because it has to cover K-8, they use Rosetta Stone for an easy-to-track homework option, but it's not a developmentally good match for 5 to 8-year-olds (they are aware, there just aren't a lot of options that also give the teacher a report on their minutes). Unsurprisingly, getting my 7yo to sit through RS is like pulling teeth. I'd love to find some programs geared toward younger kids that are more fun so she continues to enjoy learning French. She still has to do her homework, but it's nice to have an alternative on other days.

And just to brag about her amazing school, I learned this morning that they had two kids who just completed 6th grade last year who were transferring to a selective enrollment middle school for 7th grade, so they needed to test their French to place them. One tested into the 11th grade French and the other was placed directly into AP French. At 12! They get an hour a day in language, it's not immersion, so that seems amazing to me.

Obviously, the program is working, I just want my kiddo to keep enjoying the process in these early stages.

Okay, what did I do right and wrong here?( been practicing regularly, and I am on lesson 47 out of 90 in a class called the fluency factory) 🍒🍎

Hey, I want to learn French and it's really important for me to learn ,are there any good websites or videos for it, I googled it and there are a lot and now I don't know which one, I only want to pick one and go on. Please help

So i am beggining my french journey and i have finished a1 grammar and i can also use it but the main difficulty for me is listening. i can listen to alice ayel and understand her but whenever i try to watch other videos then i just cant get the meaning of the sentence even if i understand individual words please help me with tips

I fear this may be too niche. But I've seen it too many times for it to not be a coincidence. Theres a comedy/lifestyle/ pop culture podcast i listen to called "Le Pigeonnier", where they coo at the beginning of the podcast. Theres also this parisian fashion guy on insta who organizes community free for all fashion watch partys who dressed up as a pigeon to attend shows. There seems to be this shared theme of like representing ordinary people between the two - do pigeons represent this in paris? I guess because pigeons are mass flocks and everywhere in paris they might symbolize the public/common people in some way .. (?) I swear Ive seen graffiti of pigeons in the recent student protests too but I mightve hallucinated that. PLEASE if someone knows the answer lmk 😭

Hi, I am making a goodbye/encouragement card for a mint themed gift bag. The recipient does not speak French, but has enthusiastically supported me and listened patiently as I have learned, and also fumbled the language for nearly two years. I Googled, but I can’t find a decent translation for Encourage “mint” as a pun. I’m getting lots of mint translations, but I was hoping for a one word blend as it would be in English-Encouragemint. Doesn’t need to follow grammatical rules, just simple and fun. Thoughts, ideas?
Edit: Could also be along the lines of a little encouragemint as you begin something new.

Hey guys, I’m a French beginner. Chinese is my mother tongue, and English is my second language.
However, as a Chinese student, I don’t think the educational system of learning English during my school years is reasonable.
But when I taught myself, I always unconsciously imitate the way of learning English.
What I did most was just memorizing words and their Chinese meanings. Therefore, I find it hard to think in foreign language when I’m learning that one. I always translate sentences into Chinese first, think about my answer in Chinese, and then translate it back into another language to express what I want to say.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

Most language-learning lists of resources are to either entry-level, or are standard/broadcast French which lends itself to the intermediate spectrum of learners.

But for those studying or striving for a C1 and C2 level, it goes beyond standard/broadcast/textbook/classroom French. It overlaps with how people speak to each other in the street, with their informal usage of language, and with how different tiers of society converse. It involves grasping jokes, degrés of irony cultural and regional irony, and clarity of vocabulary which support its grasp.

Most people find it difficult to identify digital resources which can provide such input. Alothoug movies, films, and television shows/sitcoms can be good sources help move one towards C1/C2 levels, they are often too rigid or choreographed to offer the same colloquial level and spontaneous manner of speech that reflects how people really talk to each other off screen.

Below is a list of links I put together which offer the normal day-to-day style speaking that isnt taught in classes, and that is of a level that help support C1/C2 Canadian/Québec language acquisition. It’s mostly comprised of REELs, because they often are some of the best reflections of how people speak in real life, both in terms of vocabulary, and style.

This list can help transform your algorithm to so you’re blast you with mega-input content to work towards getting you towards, and honing your C1/C2.

Bonne chance !

Listen to as much media as you can. There are two types of media… 1. broacast media (standard international broadcast French, like Radio-Canada), and 2. common speech (colloquial French).

People the phone talk like the latter, not like the former. Broadcast French is good to an extent, but don’t just rely on that. You’ll need lots of other input to get better with colloquial French.

For standard, international French spoken everywhere in the world (in Canadian/Quebec accents of course):

• Hundreds of podcasts from Radio-Canada OHdio: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio

• Live Radio (ICI Radio-Canada Première): https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere (And if you’re driving across Canada, you can click through the various city versions as you drive through them in all provinces)

• QUB Talk Radio: https://www.qub.ca/emissions - hundreds of past shows. It’s a less formal than Radio-Canada level French, but is still a step above street-talk level French.

• And if you want accent listen exercises, explained in slower in standard French that you can repeat to work your accent, this guy has your reels.

For street-level Canadian French (colloquial / registre vulgar French), how people talk in their daily lives and in their homes:

• Talk Radio - https://radiox.com/# (click through the émissions heading to access many weeks worth of archived shows). This is a politically conservative radio station, and some shows can get political, like Maurais Live, which are not to everyone’s liking. But many others, like the Spacecast, le sexploratrice, le show du weekend, Le last call, etc are non-political and are just chat. However, it is common-man/woman, often crude street-level French. It’s one of the rare sources of 24hr daily new content from Monday-Friday (weekends are music), with how the masses speak every day.

  • You can watch many of their shows on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@radioxquebec
  • Daily highlight segments of the show, Ouillet en direct: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1cEmQ7iMy2/
  • Daily highlight segments of the call-in nighttime show, Last call. Let’s just say it doesn’t attract the brightest callers, but can sometimes be worth a dumb laugh: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19huYRaPUt/

• Here are segments from Canada’s most-watches Television program. Tout le monde en parle, with 1.5 million viewers when it broadcasts every Sunday evening. It covers the most talked about events and goings-on of the week: https://www.facebook.com/ToutlemondeenparleRC/reels/

• If you like over a hundred prank calls on the radio that will leave you in tears, Radio Énergie is a radio station that pranks the public live on air. You can access many of them here: https://www.facebook.com/MarioTessierOfficiel. My favorites are the kinds like this, like this, and like this. I’ve spent hours listening to them, p#ssing my pants in my car, or walking around wearing earbuds while looking like a crazy man laughing to myself.

  The comedian radio hosts pose as fake customer service reps, and so many of the things brought up will be as they’re said in customer service calls.

• If you like fishing, check out the reels by l’ADN du pécheur: https://www.facebook.com/DNdupecheur/reels/

  • and here’s another guy’s fishing reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19UhNejP1r/

• if you like cars, and working on cars, who moonlights as a liquidator, check out the reels by Mechanic Guillaume Loiselle: https://www.facebook.com/guillaume.loiselle.2025/reels/

  • and here’s another mechanic’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14vLD9B5QbX/

• If you like working out/nutrician:

  • check out this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.gariepy.2025/reels/
  • and here’s another guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1UKEd7E6kj/
  • and another’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DZVEjVEoi/
  • and another’s (this guy breaks down nutrician into nutrician 101 for dummies): https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CQxHDoSix/
  • and another’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19shtUDqRF/
  • and a trainer/bodybuilders’s / father’s / businessman’s reels from a guy who moved to Edmonton: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EBxuveBHk/
  • and another trainer’s videos: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FugwDSLAM/
  • and another’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GxJavMth6/

• If you like business and want to listen to a business influencer talk about all sorts of things, check out this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/mike.nhmaisonneuve/reels/. And here’s the same guy, but through his company’s official corporate reels: https://www.facebook.com/belleflamme.ca/reels/

• And in other related business themes:

  • a landscaping company’s guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1F3Fn6hHgZ/
  • and another landscaper’s reels: (his personal reels - https://www.facebook.com/vincent.picard3/reels/), (and his Professional reels - https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19ouPhaqov/),
  • a guys on client/customer building: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EZZ5RshEz/
  • This guy has reels on leveling-up business through scaling and marketing: https://www.facebook.com/hackmancharles11/reels/
  • A construction company/contractor’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1KUzpjyhsc/

• If you like agriculture, and want to listen to a farmer/rural-like talk about his daily stuff, here’s a young farmer’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/alexandre.bisaillon.5/reels/

• If you like politics, and want something that’s middle ground (centre), this young guy has hundreds(?) of reels that break complex political subjects down into simple explanations (Note, he recently put his name in to run for political office at the provincial level): https://www.facebook.com/FarnellMorisset/reels/

• If you want a life-hacks tips and tricks guy, this is your man: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FhST5LXNV/?mibextid=wwXIfr

• If you want to learn about blacksmithing and hear a guy talk about it, this guy has lots of cool reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/1HMxeobKai/?mibextid=wwXIfr

• If you want an Eastern Ontario French accent, you’ll get it from this renovation guy from Embrun, east of Ottawa.

• If you want an accent from the north coast, you’ll get it with this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FV9ftZyim/?mibextid=wwXIfr

• If you want a Brayon accent from Northwest New Brunswick (from Edmundston, which is different from Acadian accents, found in Eastern/Southern New Brunswick and elsewhere in the Atlantic provinces), then she’s your point person. She’s a beauty-product seller, so often talk about beauty products, and just a mish-mash of other stuff: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19YRAkQmhx/

  • and here’s another Brayon accent, again from the Edmundston area, a dad who just blah blah’s about anything: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CBvSnYcip/

• If you want to listen to a young guy just blah blah’ing about his life (relationships, other people, losing weight, work, etc), you can listen to this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/frank.perron.207544/reels/. He speaks with a very colloqual register from St-Hyacinthe.

• if you want to hear a guy who clears snow and does road maintenance for a living, just blah blah’ing about everything, check his reels: https://www.facebook.com/LeGroupeDumar/reels/

  • and here’s another guy who just blah blah’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BisVzVZ2b/

• If you want to hear opinionated rants in a hard-core back-woods accent from the Beauce (in which f’s, ch’s, sh’s, j’s, and g’s are pronounced with an “H”), you can listen to this anti-union anti-woke super-conservative construction worker’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/Jocleconstruction/reels/

• If you ever wondered what C3 French humour would ever sound like, if such a thing ever existed, check out this normal guy’s endless combo of dad jokes and politically incorrect jokes (on his autobody shop’s Facebook page): https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1E2RxJzh1G/

• If you want to learn about nature’s going’s-on in forests, she’s your person: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DF2ij8r9Y/

• If you want reels in Chiac (accent / Frenglish-like French), from Southwest New Brunswick around Moncton, this is your guy: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CRY1i1DgY/

• A comedian’s reels that he just creates as he’s out and about doing things: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19vUNFLpch/

• Here’s a life coach / business motivator: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1J8kVWsKjF/

Anyway, this gives you many thousands of hours of content to choose from, and that you can stream while doing your drive, laundry, shopping, cooking, etc. Hopefully this helps in your language learning journey :)

I'm lower intermediate in Spanish but my vocabulary is pretty solid (I can listen to and understand native content with some effort). I know a lot of which gender nouns are intuitively e.g. endings that are ción are feminine. I wondered how easy it would be, other than the general rule and exceptions, for me to kind of guess accurately in French based upon this knowledge? Are French endings that have the 'ion' principle also feminine? Or is there basically no correlation, and this is a risky method?

I'll try and learn it all in its own right anyway because I can usually remember these things fairly well. But I wondered if Spanish would be a help or mostly a hindrance that will interfere with learning this. Merci!

Hey I want a friend that can practice french speaking with me. My level is around A2-B1. I have various interest on which we can talk about like anime, movies, series, etc

La ville de New York prévoit d’interdire les promenades en calèche à Central Park. Les promenades sont une activité touristique populaire à New York. La ville prévoit d’y mettre fin d’ici juin 2028. Depuis plusieurs années, des habitants s’inquiètent pour la santé et la sécurité des chevaux. Il y a aussi eu plusieurs accidents. En juin, un touriste de 18 ans est mort dans un accident de calèche à Central Park. La ville prévoit d’aider les cochers à trouver de nouveaux emplois et de trouver de nouveaux foyers pour les chevaux.

Vocabulaire : prévoir = to plan / interdire = to ban / calèche (f) = horse-drawn carriage / mettre fin = to end / d’ici = by / s’inquiéter = to worry / santé (f) = health / chevaux (m pl) = horses / mourir = to die / cochers (m pl) = carriage drivers / emplois (m pl) = jobs / foyers (m pl) = homes

English translation

New York wants to ban carriage rides

New York City plans to ban horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park. The rides are a popular tourist activity in New York. The city plans to end them by June 2028. For several years, residents have been worried about the health and safety of the horses. There have also been several accidents. In June, an 18-year-old tourist died in a horse-drawn carriage accident in Central Park. The city plans to help carriage drivers find new jobs, and find new homes for the horses.

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So, I am an artist living in Paris, the issue is that Paris is not att all like it was 10 years ago - namely a city where Parisians would refuse to speak English.
I think the fact that our phones have gone from photo based media to video based media has made the english of the frenchies way better. For my frenchlearning journey this sucks... I have a french boyfriend but if I speak french to him he answers in english no matter how many times I tell him to switch to french. He clearly understands what I say because he answers just as if we were having a conversation except that I am speaking shitty french and he is peaking half shitty english...

I have two french friends who are a bit more patient and encouraging, I text with them in french pretty much daily but I see them maybe just once a week. Also same with the boyfriend...

It is just a bit frustrating because with my english it was way easier and right away I would have long conversations in english when I lived in London because that was the only language at hand.

I just.. wish I had someone I could speak a bit of french with daily ;--(

Idk... maybe someone has some good advice..

j'aurai une DELF B2 par ce Novembre, cependant mon Écrit capacité n'est pas encore parfait ou prêt pour PE avec 250 mots minimum parce que je suis entrain d'en face au problème quand developper une idée ou paragraphe. je suis à court d'idées

I’d like to get a tattoo in French. Any recommendations of your favourite French phrases would be appreciated <3

Preferences
\- I wouldn’t like it to be too small or too long. I’d rather an average sentence. The placement would probably be on my ribs or under the chest
\- Extra points if it’s a phrase from a book or poem
\- I wouldn’t like it to be too cheesy or too corny or like these inspirational posts of boomers on fb. I’m not a particularly happy person either so I probably wouldn’t like something too hopeful

Thanks !!

I’m feeling frustrated after multiple TCF Canada attempts, mainly because of Expression orale – Task 3.

My biggest problem is understanding the topic itself. Sometimes, I get a question about a subject I’ve never really thought about, and I struggle to understand what the examiner is asking or come up with ideas to discuss.

I’ve prepared topics like technology, agriculture, online shopping, healthcare, politics, and education. However, in my recent exam, I got a question along the lines of:

“Que pensez-vous des habitudes de consommation dans les pays riches ?” (What do you think about consumption habits in rich countries?)

I couldn’t properly process the topic or think of relevant ideas. I was quite confident going into the exam, but as soon as I heard that question in French, I got stuck.

I’ve already invested a huge amount of money, time, and effort into learning French. I have approximately 70 days to pass this exam, otherwise, I may have to leave Canada.

I’m willing to dedicate 5–6 hours a day to French for the next 20 days and attempt the exam again. I’m looking for a practical strategy, especially for Task 3.

How can I understand unfamiliar topics more quickly?

How can I generate ideas when I know very little about the subject?

Should I prepare hundreds of topics, or focus on learning a strategy that works for almost any topic?

How can I improve my speaking fluency, sentence structure, and ability to speak for 4 minutes or more?

I would also really appreciate connecting with someone who is motivated to practise together, exchange speaking questions, correct each other’s mistakes, and stay consistent.

If anyone has been in a similar situation and managed to improve their speaking score, please share your strategy or study routine. Any practical advice, resources, or study partners would mean a lot to me.

Thank you.