What are you watching/reading/listening to this week?

I’ve been around French learning for a while and I know how confusing it can be, especially when you understand French but struggle to actually speak it.

Happy to chat with anyone learning French, exchange ideas, or answer questions when I can. 😎

What part of French are you finding the hardest right now?

In july I took the dalf c1. I didn't expect to pass, I just wanted the experience. I have a b1 right now and am probably a beginner b2. I just thought it was funny I got 12.5 and 14 on co and ce when I was still in b1. This is a win in my book lol

I have heard from many people who have give the TCF exam that for vocabulary for the exam we need to read articles, not just random books and novels. What I want to, do you guys pick up technical terms also from it? Or are we suppose to learn the flow of the language? How technical are the questions in the exam. And by technical, I mean political terms, geology terms. I.e, glaciers, votes, state of the country etc.

Would appreciate some guidance on this.

I am providing free French A1. this is for beginners or those who are already learning French. I am a French student at B2 and want to master my proficiency. it our time slot matches we can go ahead.

For those looking for comprehensible input in french, (level A2) just came across today with "les minijusticiers", omg one the best animated cartoons, i never saw anybody recommended it before, look at it for yourself but for me it is top-noch, the vocab and the slow-paced dialogue , loved it, they are on youtube or at least a couple of episodes

https://youtube.com/@lesminijusticiersofficiel6484?feature=shared

Hi guys,

Just started learning french with a tutor and she gave me Edito A1. But I feel like the book's content is all over the place, it looks too much with all the pictures and colors, like a kids book.

Anyone out there that can recommend a good one that looks more structural?

I recently realized how important French actually is in my country , especially when it comes to jobs. a lot of job interviews here are conducted in French, which honestly made me realize that I need to finally learn it properly.

I used to be somewhat good at it when i was 15/16 yo, but I just lost it all when i started learning English and now my French is basically nonexistent.

And now that I finally want to learn it, I genuinely have no idea where to start.
Could you please give me some advice?

L’entreprise de mode et de beauté de Victoria Beckham a fait un bénéfice pour la première fois. Victoria Beckham Beauty a fait un bénéfice d’environ 9,9 millions de dollars en 2025. Un an plus tôt, elle a perdu environ 2,2 millions de dollars. Environ deux tiers des ventes de l’entreprise proviennent maintenant de produits de beauté. Un de ses produits les plus populaires est l’eyeliner. L’entreprise a été lancée en 2008, mais elle a perdu de l’argent pendant de nombreuses années. Beckham veut maintenant la développer aux États-Unis et au Moyen-Orient.

Vocabulaire : entreprise (f) = company / bénéfice (m) = profit / perdre = to lose / ventes (f pl) = sales / deux tiers = two thirds / provenir = to come from / lancer = to launch / développer = to grow

English translation

Victoria Beckham’s company makes a profit for the first time

Victoria Beckham’s fashion and beauty company made a profit for the first time. Victoria Beckham Beauty company made a profit of about $9.9 million in 2025. A year earlier, it lost around $2.2 million. About two-thirds of the company’s sales now come from beauty products. One of its most popular products is eyeliner. The company was launched in 2008, but lost money for many years. Beckham now wants to grow it in the United States and the Middle East.

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

Bonjour

I'm recently married to French speaker, I have zero French background, I'm in French speaking country thus I need to go from zero to fluency in 3y approximately , need recommendations how my wife (have zero teaching experience) can teach me?

what book(s) we can use to guide both of us as teacher and student in learning French?

I'm dedicating 3-5h per week, having a fixed schedule for the learning process, but don't know how best to start level A1.

Merci

https://youtube.com/shorts/A5VpOFjMjxs?si=T_7BP1k57DdVAPHv

As the shorts shows, french beginner will struggle with H and ô... so I wonder if I should just ignore H or...not

Are there some words that people use often and you can here H sound?? Not mute....but what's H sound? So confused

Quelqu'un peut me suggérer une/des chronique(s) de conseils du style Dear Prudence | Slate en français? Idéalement québécois / canadiens mais je suis aussi ouverte aux suggestions d'autres pays.

I’m a native Arabic speaker, around A2 or below in French, and I have 3 years to become highly proficient — how should I approach it?

Hi everyone,

I’m a native Arabic speaker and I’m currently around A2 level in French, or possibly even below A2. I know quite a lot of French vocabulary and can form simple sentences, but I still struggle with speaking fluently, expressing more complex ideas, understanding native speakers, and having longer conversations.

I’m currently in my third year of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting in Tunisia. I have my PFE (final-year project) at the end of this academic year, and after that I’m planning to do a two-year Master’s degree.

My first priority is to improve my French enough this year to be able to present and defend my PFE in French, explain my work clearly, answer questions from my professors and the jury, and communicate with confidence.

After that, I will have two more years during my Master’s degree, and I want to use this time to continue improving my French before entering professional life.

My long-term goal is not simply to become conversational. I want to eventually reach B2/C1, and ideally become highly proficient — to the point where I can speak naturally and confidently, discuss different topics, express my opinions and arguments, and communicate almost as comfortably as I do in Arabic.

There is also a professional reason behind this goal. I’m studying Accounting, and I’m interested in working in audit, accounting, finance, or related fields. I therefore want to develop strong academic and professional French, including the vocabulary and communication skills used in accounting, auditing, finance, and business.

For those of you who have successfully learned French to a high level, I would really appreciate your advice:

What would you recommend to someone starting from A2 or below?

How should I improve enough within one year to confidently present and defend my PFE in French?

What should I focus on first: grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, or writing?

What resources, websites, books, podcasts, or YouTube channels helped you the most?

How did you improve your speaking and become comfortable having long conversations?

How much French did you realistically study or practice each day?

How should I divide my time between general French and professional French?

When should I start learning professional French related to accounting, auditing and finance?

What mistakes or ineffective learning methods should I avoid?

If you were in my situation, with three years to go from A2 or below to B2/C1, what would your learning plan look like?

I would especially appreciate advice from people who have reached B2 or C1, or who have learned French for university or professional purposes.

I’m looking for real experiences, practical advice, and long-term strategies, rather than simply a list of language-learning apps.

Thank you in advance!

I'm SAHM living in belgium. I have two kids under 3 so my routine is pretty hectic with them and they're terrible night sleepers. It's difficult for me to go attend a French language course from some school. I need to get to B1-B2 level so that I can start my career again soon. I can spend almost an hour a day for active learning. What resources should I look into and how long will it take to reach B1-B2 from A1.

Hi Everyone, I'm completely new on the platform so I hope this is an appropriate question for this community. I'm currently learning french at an advanced / C-level, and I'm curious how other advanced learners manage this stage of their learning. One thing I'm really struggling with is finding good learning materials. There are plenty of advanced vocabulary resources and thematic vocabulary collections, but I often find them quite dry and disconnected from meaningful context. I can learn the words somehow but it takes me a lot of effort and I don't feel that they stick particulary well. I also spend an enormous amount of time looking things up in dictionaries to make sure that I understand correctly everything. At this point, the preparation sometimes seems to take almost as much time as the actual learning. For those of you around C1/C2, how do you deal with this? Have you found any resources that are particulary good for building advanced vocabulary in context? Or have you developed your own way of learning instead? I'd be really interested to what works for you - and also what you tried and didn't work. Many thanks.

Hi everyone,

I’m a co-host of the French Baratin podcast, which is geared toward learners at the B2 level and above. We’re launching a monthly conversation club for our Patreon subscribers. If you’re interested, feel free to join us: the conversation workshop will take place on the last Wednesday of every month at 2 p.m. CET!

For those who don’t know us yet, our podcast features conversations about current issues. The first episode of Season 5 came out yesterday. In it, we discuss whether—and how—to talk about politics with your family: a topic that concerns many French people, since the 2027 presidential election is already making headlines.

French Baratin is available for free on all podcast platforms, but I recommend Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, or Antennapod over Spotify because you can view our vocabulary sheets there, which explain difficult words in simpler French.

Enjoy the show!

Hi everyone!
I found this guy on youtube who seems to have a solid advice for TEF/TCF for Canadian PR programs. I talked to them and based my level (beginning of B1) and the amount of time I can dedicate (15-20 per week) to study they told me that I’ll be able to get CLB7 in 4 months. Does anyone know this group? Any experience? Any comment or advice?
I need to get my PR as soon and if getting CLB7 is going to take me more than a year then I’ll probably be able to apply after a year of working.

I’m looking for something similar to Smarter German which is fully online and everything you’d need (reading writing listening speaking) is in one platform with a thorough, self-paced curriculum from A1-C1. Thanks!

Bonjour, I’m looking for native French speakers to practice speaking with. I have my B2 exam in December, and I really need to start speaking regularly.

Je suis à un niveau intermédiaire et je cherche simplement des personnes avec qui je peux avoir des conversations régulières et naturelles pour améliorer mon français à l’oral.

I’m not looking for paid tutors right now, just genuine conversation and hopefully making some new friends along the way.

Si vous êtes francophone et que ça vous intéresse, envoyez-moi un DM ! J’ai vraiment besoin de pratiquer.Et les personnes qui apprennent aussi la langue et qui ont la même niveau peuvent envoyer un message.

I am in a French class at my college and want to minor in french, but so far I am falling behind a fair bit compared to my classmates. I am having fun learning about the culture and speaking the simple phrases but im afraid im going to fall too far behind and need to retake the course. Any advice for working on french outside of classwork as a brand new speaker?

Also if someone could translate the semantic meaning rather than the literal meaning in English of some phrases used, it would be helpful. Thank you

I have a decent vocab but I cannot for the life of me remember the gender of all the nouns I keep learning. Is there a trick or something to this that I am missing? Are there any rules to it? I keep messing up even the basic ones sometimes while speaking and it’s really frustrating me now as I am not able to make progress here.

Edit: To everyone mentioning learn the gender with the noun - I know this is a fairly common technique yet it is not easy to remember the gender. The noun itself is easier remembered for English native speakers as we are not used to this gender concept across everything.

I'm incoming grade 12 and i only started learning french in 2nd semester of grade 11 (intro french). I took DELF A1 and got 92.5/100.

I'm planning to skip french 11 and go straight to french 12 in 1st sem and skip A2 and do B1. The test may be at the end of oct or early nov.

That would give me roughly 2–3 months to prepare for B1. I know there’s a pretty big jump from A1 to B1, so I’m wondering how realistic this is.

Has anyone here gone directly from A1 to B1 or made similar progress in a short amount of time? Do you think this is doable, and what should I focus on the most to prepare?

My kid brings home little early reader books from the library sometimes and the other day it hit me that I should be hunting down the French equivalents. I'm home a lot and I've been cobbling together my own curriculum, apps and YouTube and whatever, but I keep running into the same wall where I recognize words individually and then an actual sentence in a news article or blog just scrambles my brain completely.

Someone in a Facebook group mentioned using French picture books and early readers as a bridge and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. The sentences are short, the vocabulary repeats, and you can actually feel yourself reading a full page without losing the thread. There's something to reading material where you're not stopping every four words to look something up.

What I'm less sure about is whether it stays useful past a certain point or whether you hit a ceiling fast and need to push into harder stuff sooner than it feels comfortable. I ordered a couple of Le Petit Nicolas books because they kept coming up in recommendations and they seem like a reasonable middle ground

Curious if anyone has gone this route and what actually worked in terms of what to read and when to make the jump to harder material. Ymmv obviously but I'm genuinely interested in the range of experiences here