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As a beginner French learner, the first step is to learn the most common French words and grammar concepts.
Here are hundreds of free French lessons you can use to get started.
Not sure where to start? Here are a few popular lessons:
France has four seasons: spring (le printemps), summer (l’été), autumn (l’automne), and winter (l’hiver), and each one has its own significance in French culture and everyday life. While we …
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You may already know how to say the months in French – after all, talking about time and events is a basic part of learning a language. But do you know the myriad of words that work with them? How …
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Avoir is the French verb that means “to have”. But it has so much more than that going for it! For one thing, as you probably know already, avoir is the most common auxiliary (helping) verb in …
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Être (to be) is the most common verb in the French language. But that probably doesn’t surprise you. From the time you start learning French, you see, hear, and learn to use and conjugate …
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19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire once wrote Le beau est toujours bizarre. (The beautiful is always bizarre). Although he wasn’t talking about the word beau itself, he might as well have …
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Whether you’ve stayed in France for a long vacation, as part of a study abroad program, internship, or short-term job, or whether you’re making your life here, there are some parts of the culture that …
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