0:58A1 · Test and flashcards
A1 Test and Flashcards
Test et cartes A1
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French listening practice from A1 to C2
Graded French stories, listening quizzes and conversations with slow, clear native audio and English subtitles. Listen, then repeat each sentence out loud, at every CEFR level.
Lessons by level
Every lesson stays within the words and grammar of its CEFR level.
Elementary
A1
About 500 words
Very short, concrete sentences about yourself, family, numbers, food and daily life, in the present tense.
38 lessons
Elementary
A2
About 1,200 words
Simple everyday situations: shopping, weather, hobbies, getting around, what happened yesterday.
45 lessons
Intermediate
B1
About 2,500 words
Connected stories about experiences, plans, opinions and feelings.
Intermediate
B2
About 4,000 words
Natural French on a wide range of topics, with nuance, reasons and arguments.
Advanced
C1
About 8,000 words
Fluent, idiomatic French with complex structures and a varied register.
Advanced
C2
About 16,000 words
Near-native French, including literary style, wordplay and fine shades of meaning.
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0:51A2 · Conversation
Power Cut
Panne de courant
2:29A1 · Test and flashcards
A1 Test and Flashcards
Test et cartes A1
1:08A2 · False friends
Car, Large: 2 French False Friends
car · large
8:17A2 · Story
Episode 7: A Story Is a Journey
Épisode 7 : Une histoire, c'est un voyage
5:10A2 · Survival French
At the Café
Au café
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French Shadow Daily
A new French lesson every day for English speakers, made for listening with no screen: graded stories to shadow, grammar taken apart, survival French for the boulangerie, the métro and the pharmacie, listening quizzes, a café chat between a learner and a native French speaker, a weekly audio drama and slow French news. Every episode is graded to a CEFR level (A1 to C2) and leaves you pauses to speak out loud.
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Three ways to practise
Stories
Short illustrated stories at your level. Each sentence is read slowly with the translation, then you repeat it in the pause.
Listening quizzes
Hear a sentence with no subtitles and pick its meaning from three answers. Then see the answer and repeat it out loud.
Conversations
Everyday conversations with two voices. You play one person: answer in your own words, then hear and repeat the real reply.