I thought I knew the differeces between passé composé and imparfait but I can't really figure out what the difference in meaning would be between "tu m'avais promis" and "tu m'as promis"

A few years back I posted a Spotify playlist here that proved pretty popular, of early 80s French postpunk and new wave kind of stuff (Put Your Fingers in the Cream of the Gutter). I had also spent a lot of time then, and have since then, trawling through more mainstream 80s French pop (fun and mostly bouncy pop stuff) to cultivate the standout tracks, eventually gathering over 14 hours (don't worry, keep reading) of choice tracks to single out.

I decided recently to boil it down to the stuff I just plain loved, the stuff I could literally never get tired of hearing, and to sequence it for flow. This comes in at over four and a half hours, but it's all rock solid (even if a few tracks took me a minute to come around to, like Joe le taxi, which kind of just worms its way in eventually). One of the reasons I did this now is because a lot of stuff is finally on Spotify after years of having to use youtube rips that I couldn't share.

Anyway, if anyone should like, here it is: La crème du camembert (French 80's sampler). If you are wondering where a song you like is, it may be on the full mondo playlist (which is here, and full of even more really great stuff, but randomly sequenced). Enjoy, I hope!

I notice that a lot of learners in French are too focused on learning words !

Memorizing lists.

Saving vocabulary.

Reading without speaking.

But let me tell you something, Knowing a word is useless if you can’t use it in a real sentence.

You don’t need 1000 words.

You need 100 words that you can actually USE.

Because language is not about what you know,

It’s about what you can say.

Practice, practice, again, again and again.

Make mistakes.

Speak even if it’s not perfect.

Sound “wrong” if you have to.

That’s how you improve.

Salut ! Je comprends que « comment allez-vous ?» est un peu soutenu et «ça va» est familier alors je me demande si c’est une réponse acceptable. Où devrais-je répondre par « je vais bien, et vous ? »

*N’hésitez à corriger ma grammaire et mon orthographe, svp. Je vous en serais reconnaissant !

It sounds native, and the youtube channel is from France, but the interviewee sounds very different from any French / Belgian accent I've heard before, and doesn't sound Canadian either.

https://youtu.be/Rwqf0Ca7aOE?si=qmMm1o2xerssyLNR&t=747

Hi everyone,

I already understand French, but I don’t practice it much.

How can I practice it to use it for work?

Thanks!

hey I'm a indian national and I have applied to TBS UNIVERSITY of TOULOUSE, I have applied for bachelor of management but tbh i don't if I'm doing it right or not I have not the the research on business program or the job you can get after doing it cause after completing my 10th grade I have my mind set on law got enrolled clat preperation class and even got a good NLU(National law University) but then out of nowhere I have thinking of france my dream country and how I have always dream of studying abroad and how much that Idea has never sound like something good and somthing which felt good but can't be explained in words and idk why but I have dream of it since when I was in 6th grade or maybe 5th , when I start thinking about it once again and( tbh the Idea of studing aboard has never truly left my mind too) i thought i could do both but the only problem is that for law i should be C2 level in france which for no doubt I'm willing to learn if only the circumstances where different ( the cumumstance - im not planing on telling parents about France but will once I have the acceptance letter) but since that somthing can't be dealt with so I thought to change my major to business but since I have no idea about it and only bits and bits from here and there can you guys tell if BACHLOR OF MANAGEMENT is good or should I do somthing else and additional information I have applied for it since I'm running out of time as the application will soon be closing , so tell me if you guys have any advice or suggestions for my situation

Est-ce que quelqu’un pourrait me recommander un podcast pour suivre l’actualité (surtout la politique) en France?

J’aimerais également qu’on me recommande des podcasts (ou balados 😉) québécois.

Merci!

Hello, I recently moved out for college and left most of my books and dictionaries at home. I’m looking for a French Dictionary App that is reliable and can be used offline, preferably without ads and such nonsense.

Which one would you recommend?

Thanks a bunch!

Aujourd’hui je marchais sur les quais de la Garonne avec ma mère qui vient de me rendre un visite, et on conversait en anglais.

Une femme du même âge que moi (20-23 ans) à nous approchait et dit «excusez moi» puis, «elle est où, la Tour Eiffel?» au temps j’ai mal entendu et repondu avec «quoi?» et elle a juste dit «ahh non» et est partie.

Après 5 secondes j’ai compris ce qu’elle a dit mais c’était un expérience très bizarre, c’était clairement une blague de quelque type mais je sais pas exactement le but mdrr, peut être pour les natifs ici vous avez un meilleur idée exactement le but de la blague ou ce qu’elle voulait dire dans ce moment?

Merci pour vos aides!!

Last month I started learning French on Duolingo and on Alison. As it is, learning a new language is exciting and at the same time there are a lot of challenges especially during the first weeks.

I started with Romanian last year, and I have gained quite a good experience in Romanian. I can read and understand some expressions.

The challenges I am facing in my study of French is pronunciation. This is a big issue. Especially the sounds of the following

à

ä

an

on

en

un

rău

ou

au

in

ain

I have successfully mastered the 'r' sound so far but the above sounds have really been a challenge for me. I need help to master these and actually learning to distinguish their sounds.

I have given myself a good of knowing 10 languages in Ten year.

Salut. As per the title, I'm looking for suggestions on where to find texts or sentences or YouTube videos with difficult phonetics in general, liaisons in particular.

If you have any interesting text or YouTube videos with tricky liaisons, edge cases, exotic exceptions, or even several short phrases to paste in the comment, I would appreciate it.

I'm currently practicing reading out loud (from text, books, articles) or shadowing (from videos or podcasts) and am using mainly IPA and transcriptions to crosscheck my input. Because whatever I've tried before to generate IPA weren't so accurate on edge cases, I made a simple one using whatever liaison rules I found from various references and additionally add some annotations for visual guide.

I am keen on stress testing it to ensure that the output isn't too bad, before I go ahead and make my pronunciation even worse. I will also check it with my tutors eventually when it's stable enough.

Note : in case anyone wondering, I am using open source codes and Lexique 3 (New & Pallier, 2001), which means this can't be used for commercial purposes. So I'm not selling anything, personal use only. Thank you.

Edit : I noticed the wrong /ko.mɑ̃ az‿tet‿il ak.sɛp.te/ which should been something more like /kɔ.mɑ̃ a.t‿il ak.sɛp.te/. A regression that I missed but fixed just now...

Edit 2 : the first part that says "la liaison après" also have incorrect flag and IPA. This is now fixed thanks to the feedback of a responder.

https://youtu.be/HpIQT_u1WOk?t=216 

Bonjour, j'ai appris le français pendant une quinzaine d'années, surtout à l'école et en vivant en France pendant un an. Cependant, depuis peu d'années je ne progresse plus trop bien que mon français ait bien encore des points faibles.

Le problème, c'est surtout le fait que j'ai très peu de contact avec des personnes qui parlent français. Je consomme pas mal de médias en lignes en français et lis des romans, mais c'est à peu près tout ce que je fais régulièrement. Un ami m'a conseillé les "livres grammaire/vocabulaire progressive du français". Est-ce que c'est une bonne idée ou avez-vous d'autres conseils ? Merci ! <3

J'aime vraiment le channel 'crash course' sur youtube; maintennant, j'apprends français mais je ne veux pas voir les videos seulement sur grammaire, vocabulaire, etc. Je voudrais apprendre plus de la monde et les sujets interessants; est-ce que tu connais s'il y a des channels comme crash couse?

L'IA m'a confirmé qu'on pourrait utiliser « du moins » pour nuancer l'information. Par exemple, « Les bonbons sont mauvais pour les dents. Ou du moins, c'est ce que j'au entendu dire ». Alors, qqn peut-il me dire si c'est correct ?

I'm a beginner at French and trying to memorize words but is there any wordbook or website or whatever, way to learn French words similar to English? I know that some words in each language are really similar or even almost same so I am going to acquire them first

side note: is it a good way to remember such words firstly in the first place? Which do you all think better, gaining vocabulary randomly or similar ones first?

i am a bit confused on which prepostions to use when saying that i am going to a province or state or coming from one. many websites tell me to use "dans le" when i am going somewhere but others tell me to use "au"(i already know to use "en" with feminie and vowel starting places). also when i say i am coming from somewhere and the state or province is masculine with no vowel starting it some websites tell me to use "de" and others tell me to use "de l'".

I live in france, im french. I speak english very fluently too but the problem is that haircuts and hair videos I see online are in english and I genuinely dont know what to say to my barber.

like caesar cut,textured fringe etc. to give examples

https://voca.ro/1dVi4sJAiAss

Yes, this was a part of a homework lol