Everyday Spoken French
Navigate real-world French interactions with poise and confidence. Learn the polite rituals, ordering essentials, and conversational glue that turn everyday encounters into smooth connections.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Spoken French. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The First Sixty Seconds and Navigating Real Interactions. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Spoken French
- In French culture, 'Bonjour' operates as an essential ritual gateway before any question or order is acceptable
- Jumping directly to a transaction or order without 'Bonjour' is perceived as rude and dismissive by French speakers
- Staff often pause or greet you firmly with 'Bonjour' to reset the interaction if you omit it
- Tacking on 'Madame' or 'Monsieur' immediately validates the other person as an equal rather than a nameless service worker
- Using honorifics in daily French life is standard, warm politeness rather than archaic or aristocratic formality
- French courtesy formulas ('s'il vous plaît', 'merci') lose their sincerity if spoken without looking at the person
- Eye contact in French encounters signals that you acknowledge the human being serving you rather than treating them as background noise
- A French encounter follows a defined arc: greeting password, request with politeness, then formal closing and well-wishes
- 'Au revoir, bonne journée' cleanly bookends the encounter and closes the social contract before leaving the door
- 'Je voudrais' means 'I would like' and functions as the standard, polite counter opener in French
- Saying just 'Je veux' (I want) or naming the item alone can sound abrupt to French staff
- Pairing 'Je voudrais' directly with any pointed-out pastry or drink immediately forms a complete, natural request
- French speakers rely on the core noun to fulfill your counter order, not flawless gender agreement
- Mixing up 'un' and 'une' is a minor grammatical slip that does not obscure meaning in real interactions
- French prices state the euro amount first, followed by 'euros', then the centimes
- Focusing on the number directly preceding 'euros' gives you the bulk of the payment right away
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Tomo gives Everyday Spoken French the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Picture this: you step into a small bakery in Paris, eager for breakfast. What must unlock the conversation before you can ask for a pastry?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Everyday Spoken French takes you
- 1
The First Sixty Seconds
- Unlocking Encounters with the Politeness Ritual
- Ordering Food and Drinks at the Counter
- 2
Navigating Real Interactions
- Asking Directions and Catching the Answer
- Conversational Glue and Graceful Bailouts
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Everyday Spoken French is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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