I swear sometimes I hear native speakers saying “full” to each other when they’re speaking french, but i don’t know what the context is, i just occasionally hear it on the street in the middle of convos. I think the context is like talking about 100%/complete things (« je vais parler en full espagnol » « le concert est déjà full ») but i’m not sure. Is this an anglicism that native french speakers use or is it just likely i mistook it for another word? Or do they only use it as a translation when speaking to non native speakers?

I'm learning French and I'd like to start reading in French to extend my vocabulary. However the books that I tried use a very different vocabulary from the spoken French, for example the passe simple form of the verbs which I don't know yet. This makes it too hard for me to follow even with a dictionary - I basically have to look up every sentence. Can anyone recommend some titles with vocabulary closer to spoken French?

I’m not sure whether I should use present, future, or some other grammatical structure after “la dernière fois que…”

I’m trying to say “this is the last time you will see me on stage.”

Je vous remercie d’avance !

In my book it says that to ask these sort of questions, you can say:
Qu'est-ce que ce mot veut dire? - What does this word mean?

Qu'est-ce que tu veux dire par là? - What do you mean by that?

Is this a common way to ask this? Or is there a more common way? DeepL translate tells me something along the lines of: Que signifie ce mot?

Im sure both are equally correct, im just curious about which one is more common and if there are any other colloquial ways of asking such questions. Merci!

How do I learn French? Ik ik you'll hate me for this but I've tried Duolingo and I didn't really learn anything other than saying j'mappelle maybe I'm stupid but it didn't work for me. Youtube videos didn't work either.

I was trolling some dude online into thinking I spoke french and then realised how much I actually wanted to learn the language. Any tips? English isn't my first language

Those of you who read texts/novels in french to learn french. How do you do it? Do you try to understand what you can? Or translate words you don't know as you go, how have you found it improved your french?

Also can someone please recommend a good french grammar book. It can be in french.

Je ne peux plus rester loin de toi

But,

Je ne peux rester loin de toi plus longtemps

Why is "plus longtemps" at the end of the sentence in the second example? Is it always at the end of the sentence and what is the difference between "ne ... plus" and not "ne ... plus longtemps"?

Hello! I want to write the phrase "We're still skating at the park in my mind", but I'm having trouble translating the "still". I've seen conflicting answers on this subreddit for toujours vs encore. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi!

I'm looking for a short course in France (a couple of weeks) to refresh and improve my French. I was probably B2 many years ago but would probably need A2 these days. I'd like the standard 4 hours a day of group lessons in the morning.

I'd like to be away from the big cities - I definitely don't want to go to Paris - and somewhere where the accent is fairly clear.

Any personal recommendations would be much appreciated!

Thank you

Salut!

I’m looking for a French radio station that’s similar to the Italian “Rai Radio 2” All their shows combine music with interviews with artists, informal conversations and some news bits.

Merci!

I wrote “groupe des étudiants” on google docs and it corrected me to groupe d’étudiants, is there a reason it’s “de” and not “des”? Is it always de for things like the “plupart” “majorité,” “moitié” etc of nouns ?

Hi there ! I'm looking to send my French students to a summer camp in France, ideally in the south of France. They're aged 11 and 12, so more pre-teenager. Any ideas? Thank you

My partner is French and we like to watch the show to improve my language skills and understanding. It was on Netflix before but it’s gone now and can’t find it anywhere else. Merci!!

J'ai un élève de 11 ans qui mélange les mots comme "qui", "que", "le", "la", etc. Je lui ai donné des leçons sur la fonction grammaticale, je les ai surlignés, je l'arrête quand il les mal lit, etc. etc. mais il continue à les mélanger quand on fait de la lecture. Sa mère a soulevé la possibilité d'un difficulté d'apprentissage mais je cherches des astuces des autres qui ont de l'expérience avec quelque chose comme ça et des stratégies de quoi faire de mon côté.

Merci!

*L'enfant apprend le français comme seconde langue, il est anglophone.

I am so confuses at this. Isn't it should be - Il lui avait fait sourire. to avoid accordance with the gender ?

I've been learning French for a couple months now and it goes without saying that I'm not that advanced yet so this might be a dumb question but I came across this sentence when I was playing a game in French: "ça va ta bien advancer depuis!" and I know it means something like "You've made good progress since then!" but what does the ça va stand for in the beginning in this context? Again, this might be a dumb question but I'm a bit confused.

I imagine it may have to do with the cc in accueil, given the more frequent (I think) spelling from seuil (fauteuil, deuil).

I'm going through practice teste right now (just compréhension d'orale and compréhension des écrits and I've noticed that every single test isn't even consistent level-wise. I'm going from marks of 21-23 in a single section to under ten in another. Also I've noticed that some tests have only multiple choice and others have a lot of written answer. I can't say I'm a high B2 level, but these practice tests make me feel like I'm not prepared for my exam at all. What is going on?

Also for clarification I'm in IB so none of my school curriculum prepared me for this. I'm self-studying for the exam.

I hope this falls under the guidelines of this subreddit -- I'm trying to write a description of the difference between the two accents (I'm aware there are many regional variations within, but broad strokes) without defaulting to just saying one sounds "worse". My ear can hear the difference but I wouldn't know how to describe it. I can conceptualize slang differences a lot easier but there is for sure just a general accent difference that, despite existing, I struggle to concretely identify in words. How would you describe the difference between the accents, or even any smaller regional variations of either? Thank you and I hope this wasn't worded too confusingly :-)

So taking my B2 in a couple days since it was a requirement to either do that or B1 (Canadian French Immersion), and quite literally had just recently been told stuff that my teacher should've told us, mainly that it's France French. So now I have been worried sick about the thing, especially since one of my friends who had taken it in the past was telling me some of the stuff I'd be dealing with and that the workbook that we were given to practice with would not be super useful, especially since it's multiple choice. And now here I am, frantically studying with very little prep time (I know, I know) especially because of the France French aspect and I have a hard time with the hearing section (difficulty with quick and jumbled things even in English.) Any tips? (or ways to ease my worries lol)

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Ça fait environ 4 mois que je ne vous ai pas demandé des retours sur ma prononciation, donc j’ai voulu le faire aujourd’hui.

Merci d’avance pour vos retours!

Can someone explain why Duolingo had me write Ils when there was already an Ils in the sentence?

Bonjour à tous ! J’ai étudié le français au lycée pendant 4 ans, mais j’ai appris très peu, et j’ai commencé à réapprendre la langue cette année, 10 ans plus tard.

J’ai commencé à lire des livres comme Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Arsène Lupin et Sans Famille. Bien que je comprenne environ 80 à 90 % de ce que je lis, le vocabulaire est souvent un peu ancien. Je cherche donc quelque chose de plus moderne, mais pas trop compliqué non plus. J’ai essayé "Les Lames du Cardinal" et "Les Fiancés de l’hiver", mais il y a beaucoup de vocabulaire fantastique que je dois chercher dans le dictionnaire.

Est-ce que vous auriez des recommandations de livres modernes, plus accessibles, pour les apprenants de niveau intermédiaire ?

Those are terms you would use for relationships.