French French for an English-speaking child: silent letters, nasal vowels and the French r, accents, greetings, tu or vous, numbers up to a hundred with soixante-dix and quatre-vingts, colours, days and months, dates and the time. The lessons are in English about French.
The french course of Mova's primary school: 40 lessons, 642 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mova corpus 0.4).
1 Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes 19 sentences · French writes lots of letters that nobody says out loud, a bit like the silent k in English "knee" and the s… 2 Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u 19 sentences · French has some sounds English does not have, and learning them is like learning new moves in a game: strang… 3 Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends 19 sentences · French letters sometimes wear little hats, lines and tails, called accents, and they are part of the spellin… 4 Hello and goodbye: greetings 18 sentences · In France a greeting is not a nice extra: you say bonjour to the baker, the bus driver and the doctor before… 5 Tu or vous? Manners in French 15 sentences · French has two words for "you": tu, the friendly one, and vous, the polite one, and choosing between them is… 6 Numbers 0 to 20 15 sentences · Counting to twenty in French is like learning a new playground chant: un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, and soo… 7 Numbers 21 to 69 16 sentences · Once you know the tens, French numbers up to 69 are like Lego: take a ten, click on a unit with a hyphen, an… 8 Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts 15 sentences · In France the numbers from 70 to 99 are little sums: 70 is soixante-dix, sixty-ten, and 80 is quatre-vingts,… 9 Colours 17 sentences · French colours sit behind the thing they describe, so a red ball is un ballon rouge, "a ball red", like a la… 10 Days of the week and months 18 sentences · Most French days are named after the Moon and the planets: lundi is the Moon's day, mardi is Mars's day, mer… 11 Dates and birthdays 15 sentences · A French date is a little recipe: le, then the number, then the month, so the 14th of October is le quatorze… 12 Telling the time 14 sentences · To ask the time in French you say Quelle heure est-il ?, and the answer is Il est trois heures, word for wor… 13 Weather and seasons 18 sentences · French talks about the weather with il fait, "it makes": il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot),… 14 My family 16 sentences · In French the word for "my" changes with the word after it: mon père (my dad), ma mère (my mum), mes parents… 15 Pets and animals 13 sentences · Every animal word has a gender that belongs to the word, not to the animal: une tortue is always une, even i… 16 The body 15 sentences · The quickest way to learn the body in French is a game: in Jacques a dit, touchez la tête ! means "Simon say… 17 Clothes 16 sentences · Some clothes words are traps for English speakers: une veste is a jacket, not a vest, des baskets are traine… 18 Food and drink 17 sentences · French food words almost never stand alone: you like le pain (bread in general), but at the shop you ask for… 19 At the café: ordering in French 18 sentences · A French café visit has a little script: bonjour when you sit down, je voudrais... s'il vous plaît to order,… 20 In the classroom 15 sentences · Your pencil case, une trousse, holds the first French words you will use every day: un stylo (a pen), un cra… 21 My house and my home 15 sentences · The word's gender has nothing to do with you: a boy says ma chambre and a girl says ma chambre too, because… 22 The town and directions 16 sentences · Getting around a French town needs only a handful of words: tout droit (straight on), à gauche (left), à dro… 23 Hobbies and sport 16 sentences · So you say je joue au football, but je joue du piano, and je fais du vélo - a bit like how English says "pla… 24 Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas 13 sentences · French has a ladder for liking things: j'adore (I love), j'aime (I like), j'aime bien (I quite like), je n'a… 25 Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl 17 sentences · Every French noun belongs to one of two groups, masculine (le, un) or feminine (la, une), even tables, cars… 26 Plurals: les, des and silent s 14 sentences · You hear the plural in the little word in front instead: le chat sounds "luh SHA", les chats sounds "lay SHA… 27 Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing 16 sentences · A small group of short, everyday ones go in front, and the trick BAGS helps you remember them: Beauty (beau,… 28 Être: to be 15 sentences · Être means "to be", and it is one of the busiest words in French: je suis (I am), tu es (you are), il est an… 29 Avoir: to have 15 sentences · Avoir means "to have": j'ai (I have), tu as, il a and elle a, on a, nous avons, vous avez, ils ont and elles… 30 Questions and simple sentences 14 sentences · The easiest French question is an ordinary sentence with your voice going up at the end like a little hill:… 31 Songs and rhymes 15 sentences · Songs are a clever way to learn: the tune carries the words into your memory, and many songs secretly teach… 32 Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style 17 sentences · Winter in France is full of feasts, and many of them look a little different from Christmas and pancake day… 33 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days 16 sentences · France's year is dotted with special days, and each one has its own words, food or game. 34 France and the French-speaking world 15 sentences · French is not only the language of France: it is spoken on every continent, and all the people and places th… 35 False friends 16 sentences · Many French words look just like English ones and mean the same, like animal or table - but some look friend… 36 English words that came from French 15 sentences · You already know thousands of French words without knowing it: menu, restaurant, café, ballet, garage and so… 37 Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★ 16 sentences · Big French numbers are little sums in disguise: quatre-vingt-dix-sept is "four twenties, ten and seven", so… 38 Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ 14 sentences · A French gender puzzle is a detective story: the noun hides its gender, and you must find it from clues - th… 39 Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ 24 sentences · In a language olympiad you often get a short real text - a postcard, a sign, a menu, a recipe - and must wor… 40 Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ 15 sentences · This last lesson mixes everything from the whole course - sounds, spelling, numbers, days, time, agreement a… ← previous Everydaynext → Geography↑ back to the school This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/