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Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Compare five French recommendation sentences, track words such as vivement and incontournable and preserve the audience or criterion limiting each claim.
Grammar & usageWord scaleA1
Reading & writingWord scaleC2
Culture & registerWord scaleA2
Words & expressionsWord scaleA2
From glacial and il gèle to doux, chaud, étouffant and caniculaire: a French temperature scale for weather small talk, with the verbs you need.
Everyday FrenchWord scaleB1
Je me tourne les pouces, c'est tranquille, j'ai du boulot, je suis débordé·e, j'ai la tête sous l'eau: rate your workload in French.
Words & expressionsWord scaleB1
Murmurer, chuchoter, parler, élever la voix, crier, hurler: climb six French verbs for speaking volume and learn when to use each.
Everyday FrenchWord scaleA2
A French hunger scale, from j'ai un petit creux to j'ai une faim de loup and je meurs de faim, plus the same idea for thirst and tiredness.
Grammar & usageWord scaleA1
Jamais, rarement, de temps en temps, souvent, toujours: a visual scale of French frequency adverbs, where they go in a sentence and how to use them.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Pas du tout d'accord, pas vraiment, mouais, plutôt d'accord, tout à fait, absolument: a scale for agreeing and disagreeing in French debates and meetings.
Words & expressionsWord scaleB1
Il bruine, il pleuvine, il pleut, il pleut à verse, il tombe des cordes, c'est le déluge: seven French ways to describe rain, light to torrential.
Everyday FrenchWord scaleA2
C'est donné, pas cher, abordable, raisonnable, cher, hors de prix, ça coûte les yeux de la tête: a French price scale for shopping and complaining about prices.
Culture & registerWord scaleB2
Compare affirme, estime and s’interroge through complete quotations, distinguishing assertion, judgement and questioning rather than ranking truth.
Words & expressionsWord scaleA1
A visual scale of French likes and dislikes, from je déteste to j'adore, with the in-between phrases French speakers actually use. Then place your own tastes.
Everyday FrenchWord scaleA2
Juste à côté, à deux pas, pas loin, assez loin, à perpète: climb seven French expressions for distance and give directions like a local.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Tiens !, ah bon ?, c'est pas vrai !, sans blague !, je n'en reviens pas, j'en suis resté·e bouche bée: react to news in French, mild to stunned.
Words & expressionsWord scaleB1
Flâner, se balader, marcher, se dépêcher, courir, foncer: climb seven French verbs of moving from strolling to racing, with the art of the flâneur.
Culture & registerWord scaleA2
Une connaissance, un collègue, un copain, un ami, un ami proche, un meilleur ami: a closeness scale for French relationships, and why French people say ami carefully.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Seven ways to ask for the salt, from a blunt donne-moi le sel to a very formal auriez-vous l'amabilité de…, on a politeness scale with when to use each.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
A scale of certainty in French, from peut-être and probablement to sûrement and certainement, with the catch that sûrement often means probably.
Culture & registerWord scaleA2
Rate a film, a meal or a holiday like a French speaker: from nul and bof to pas mal, super and génial. Seven words, with the tone of each.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Grignoter, manger, se régaler, déguster, dévorer, se goinfrer, bouffer: a scale of French eating verbs by how much and how politely you eat.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
A French anger scale: agacé, énervé, fâché, en colère, furieux, hors de moi. Learn the shades of irritation and how to calm things down.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Tout de suite, dans un instant, tout à l'heure, bientôt, plus tard, un de ces jours: a French urgency scale, including the ones that are vaguer than they sound.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
L'argent is neutral, le fric and la thune are slang, les fonds are formal. A register scale for talking about money in French, with when each word fits.
Culture & registerWord scaleA2
Pardon, excuse-moi, désolé, je suis vraiment navré, je vous prie de m'excuser: a scale of French apologies from a bump in the street to a formal letter.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Content, heureux, ravi, enchanté, fou de joie, aux anges, au septième ciel: a French happiness scale with the right word for every level of joy.
Culture & registerWord scaleA2
From a little worried to frozen with terror: climb seven French words for fear, with the idioms people really use like avoir la trouille.
