Learn French, one short lesson at a time
240 free lessons in everyday French as spoken in Paris, from your first bonjour to real conversations.
Each lesson is one page and takes about 15 minutes.
Every line comes as text and as audio, so you can read it, hear it, practise it with quick exercises, and finish by saying it out loud.
The whole course follows Sam, who has moved to Paris for a year, his new neighbors, and a very polite yak named Gaspard. Behind the bar of the corner café hangs an old postcard that nobody can explain.
Meet the cast
SamJust moved to Paris for a year and quick to say tu. In the lessons, you speak as him.
OdileRuns Café des Tilleuls, insists on bonjour first, and remembers every order.
GaspardA very polite yak with a Navigo pass on a cord, who sits next to the window table and never finishes his café crème.
InèsSam's friend two floors down. A night nurse from Lyon who lives on WhatsApp voice messages.
KarimOdile's son. He sells fruit and vegetables at the Saturday market and is bad at giving change.
Monsieur LefebvreSam's formal landlord, usually in a doorway with a heavy ring of keys.
Dr. RocheThe calm doctor above the pharmacy, who asks what hurts and what you have already tried.
ClaireSam's manager at a small company that makes audio guides for museums.
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How the course is built
Every lesson teaches a handful of short lines people really say in Paris, not grammar tables. You read and hear each line, follow a short story, practise it with quick exercises, and finish by saying it out loud.
The lessons follow one story, so the same people and places come back and earlier lines keep showing up. Nothing you learn is used once and forgotten. You will meet tu and vous the way Parisians use them: tu with friends, vous with strangers, shop staff and the landlord.
It goes from A1 (your first bonjour) to B2 (holding your own in a real conversation). Each lesson takes about 15 minutes.
The course is built around text and audio. The voices are computer-generated, clear and the same every time, so you can replay a line as often as you like. Speaking practice is record-only: you record yourself and compare it with the voice, but the course does not score your pronunciation.