Episode 20 — Graduation: your first French news bulletin

Episode two of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Today you learn the verb avoir (to have), the apostrophe that welds j'ai into a single sound, the family words, and yesterday's promised secret: French people don't say how old they are, they say how many years they have. J'ai trente ans, I have thirty years. Today's real news sentence: La Première ministre a deux enfants et habite dans la capitale.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/2🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode three of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. The day every French learner remembers: the words for 'the'. You'll meet le, la and les, plus l', the apostrophe French uses to smash words together, complete the verb être, learn the word aujourd'hui, and discover why the moustache is feminine. Today's sentence: Le gouvernement, la police et l'armée sont aujourd'hui dans les rues.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/3🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode four of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. News is obsessed with counting, today you unlock the big numbers: cent, mille, dix mille. And you meet the most gloriously mad thing in the French language: there is no word for eighty. The French say quatre-vingts, four twenties, and seventy is soixante-dix, sixty-ten. Plus the two words for people and the crowd vocabulary of every protest story. Today's sentence: Plus de dix mille personnes sont à la manifestation dans la capitale.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/4🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode five of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the week-one finale. Today: fifteen professions, the silent plural (ten doctors sound exactly like one, the article does all the work), the most French phrase in all of news, and your first full regular verb: travailler. Today's sentence: Les médecins et les professeurs sont en grève aujourd'hui.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/5🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode six of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Week two begins: one news domain a day, starting with the biggest, politics. Today: the election, the word-family trick (learn one root, unlock the whole family), the polls, and the day French refuses to say 'on'. Today's sentence: L'élection est dimanche et les sondages sont très serrés.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/6🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.