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Watch a little French.
Then use it.

Short listening and speaking lessons with French models, English meanings, captions and time to practise. Pick one skill and open its matching free exercise after watching.

Start a short French conversation

Practise a full conversation in one animated lesson, or choose the four short lessons for greetings, introductions and asking someone to repeat. These cover the four free First Contact missions in the optional App.

Ask for what you need in French

Ask for water or help, find the toilets, and follow an animated route around town. Practise a restaurant exchange or ask for the station, museum and post office. Follow four separate train-ticket examples to choose a departure, ask the price, pay by card and request a return ticket. These videos and website exercises are free; the Essential Needs and Around town units in the optional App require Premium. The Simple travel unit in the optional App also requires Premium. Book a hotel room with separate two-night and one-night examples, and ask about breakfast. The Book a hotel task in the optional App requires Premium.

Hear a French sound or spelling contrast

Choose a contrast you find difficult. Listen first, use the silent gap to practise, and answer before the model is revealed. The matching guide or listening round is one step away.

Count, ask for tickets and tell the time

Hear numbers 1–10, ask for two tickets and ask what time it is. Practise during the pauses, then try the matching free website exercises. These three videos are free; the Numbers and time unit in the optional App requires Premium.

Order and pay in French

Follow a complete animated café and shopping lesson: listen, repeat, respond without the text and check what you heard. Start with A0 requests, then try the clearly labelled A1 payment and A2 drink comparison. The video and website exercises are free; First Transactions and the A1/A2 App units require Premium.

Buy fruit and ask the price in French

Order an apple, ask the price of one banana and choose two, then change your order to three apples. Follow the animated quantities and prices, listen to complete exchanges and try your replies before the model appears. This video and the website exercises are free; the Food and shopping unit in the optional App requires Premium.

Describe your day in French

Talk about getting up, breakfast, work, lunch and evening activities in four separate A1 examples. Keep each speaker’s times and habits distinct, repeat complete phrases during the pauses and try the complete example before the model returns. Then adapt the times and activities to your own day. This video and the website exercises are free. Daily Routine in the optional App requires Premium; all 35 Sounds pages and the first four First Contact missions are free. The full 120-mission App course requires Premium.

Give an opinion and justify your choice in French

State a preference, explain a reason, offer another view and disagree politely in separate A2 situations. Then make your own individual choice. This free video matches Preferences missions 2, 3 and 4 (A2.1), plus Relationships mission 2 (A2.2). These selected tasks in the optional App require Premium; all 35 Sounds pages and the first four First Contact Course missions are free. The full 120-mission App course requires Premium.

Speak French at work

Practise four separate workplace situations: check a report’s progress, clarify an instruction, propose a work arrangement and review a completed project. Listen to whole French models, answer as colleague A in the silent gaps and check the meaning after the delay. Reset the roles between scenes. This video and the website practice are free; At work in the optional App requires Premium. All 35 Sounds pages and the first four First Contact missions are free; the full 120-mission App course requires Premium.

Make one short lesson useful

Choose a single conversation task or sound contrast rather than playing the whole collection at once. Watch the French model before speaking. During a silent gap, say the line or vowel aloud; pause the player if you need more time. For a listening question, choose your answer before it appears. Then replay the difficult part and try the matching website practice without copying the response.

For First Contact, start with hello and goodbye, continue to your first name, then practise asking someone to repeat. Finish with the short conversation review. For the sound lessons, start with a contrast you confuse, such as u and ou. Use the matching six-question vowel round to check listening choices, and return to the physical cue when an answer surprises you.

What the lessons model

The original reference audio is synthesized. The first six vowel and spelling lessons identify their isolated sounds and complete word or sentence models. The EU lesson uses complete deux and peur recordings; listen for the vowel inside each word. Conversation videos use full phrase models and identify separate sound clips. The R lesson combines a reference sound with complete greeting and goodbye models. Each video states its audio scope. English captions and the lesson text support reading while you listen.

Free videos, with an optional App

Every video and the matching website practice here is free. No purchase is needed to watch, read the lesson text or use the linked exercises. In Parle for iPhone and iPad, all 35 Sounds pages and the first 4 First Contact Course missions are free. The full 120-mission App course requires Premium. Video listening choices do not record your voice or assess your accent; the App’s Phrase Match reports detected words rather than an accent or pronunciation score.

These lessons are made by the developer of Parle: Learn & Speak French, Apple App ID 6761505050, with AI-assisted scripts and graphics. Open the official ParleFrenchLab channel or read about the product and its developer.