Understand the French your textbook skipped

Your French is solid. Then two Parisians start talking and you catch one word in three. This free guide gives you the 86 slang words and expressions they actually use: le fric, avoir la flemme, être à l'ouest. All of them have been standard for thirty years, and none of them are going anywhere.

You can read Le Monde. You still miss the joke.

Textbook French prepares you for the news, not for the table next to you at the café. The gap isn't grammar. It's register: the words that show up in almost every real conversation and in almost no classroom.

  • You know every word in the sentence and still miss the meaning
  • People switch to English to be kind
  • Films and series lose you inside a minute
  • You sound like a textbook, and you can hear it

Nothing trendy

Every expression has been in daily use for at least thirty years. No internet slang that expires next spring.

Built for your ear

Each entry comes with a sentence written the way it is really said, so you recognise it at conversation speed and not just on paper.

Sorted by situation

Money, people, food, work, emotions, daily life. You learn the words for the conversation you are about to have.

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  • 86 expressions across 7 themes
  • An English translation and a French definition for each
  • One real example sentence per entry
  • 13 pages, formatted to print

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