Here's our list of the 30 most essential questions you'll need if you are just starting to learn French. Before you start, make sure to study our guide to the top 20 French phrases.
Let's start with a question for the cowards among us:
Come on, we can do better than that:
Here are the classics, which you really should know already:
* In French we literally ask: "What do you call yourself?"
Want to ask about someone's job?:
When you learn a foreign language you'll need an effective strategy for dealing with communication problems. Don't just nod and say 'oui' to everything!
Food is taken incredibly seriously in most French-speaking countries.
Now comes perhaps the most important travellers' phrase of all times:
Forget Google Maps! One of the joys of travel is asking a local person for directions.
Let's make things a little more polite, shall we?
This little phrase is damn useful and can be used to form loads of French questions.
Medical emergency?
Trying things on:
Asking the price:
Always check if the shop accepts credit cards!
Dating and relationships
While Paris may have a reputation for romance, dating a Frenchie can be a pretty complicated business. Don't get off on the wrong foot!
Those questions used the informal 'tu' form. Here are the formal versions:
Let's check for compatibility:
The forward type?
Some other stuff here
Just getting started? Here are all the basics, from introducing yourself, to numbers, the alphabet and loads more crazy Gallic stuff.
Forget the textbooks. Here's the sort of informal French you'll hear amongst friends.
It's the type of really practical language that you'll use all the time in casual conversations, but nobody's actually ever bothered to teach you. Until now.
You've learnt the basics (Tell me you've learnt the basics!) and want to move on? Let's look at likes and loves and a whole load of other stuff.
Your starter's guide to French grammar rules.
Bienvenue to our series of classes for anyone starting to learn French, or those of you who were smoking behind the bike sheds when they should have been in French class.
Our focus in these classes is on real, practical examples which you can start to use straight away. We'll keep grammar to a minimum, promise!
Other classes in this section:
Who says you have to start with boring grammar? Here are the first 20 French phrases you'll want to know if you are just starting to learn French.
A great introduction to forming questions in French. From asking for directions, ordering in a restaurant, to finding out if that cute guy/girl is married or not. Here's out guide to the top 30 French questions for beginners.
Let's get started on French verbs with 5 of the most common. We've also included loads of examples phrases and questions.
The French numbers up to 100, including all those crazy numbers from 70 to 99. Audio provided.
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