While I drink my coffeeTu parles français ?
Translation
Do you speak French?
Week 2, day 8 of 25
Français A0, 15–20 minutes
Do you speak French?
Say which languages you speak.
Ana from São Paulo bursts into the room, hair still wet from the shower. Her French is bold and full of mistakes, and she doesn't mind at all.
1. Listen and repeat
Listen first. Reveal the translation if you need it. Repeat the phrase slowly twice.
Un peu.
Translation
A little.
Je parle russe et anglais.
Translation
I speak Russian and English.
Je ne parle pas portugais.
Translation
I don't speak Portuguese.
Reading, sound by sound
More nasal vowels: in and ain are a nasal e: vin, pain, demain. un is almost the same sound: un, lundi. Compare pain and bon: the vowel is nasal, the n is not heard.
Read the word yourself first, then tap it to check.
2. Try it
01 Listen. What does the speaker mean?
Show the recording transcript
Je ne parle pas portugais.
02 Reading. Which word did you hear?
Show the recording transcript
vin
03 How do you ask if someone speaks French?
04 Build the phrase from the model.
Model: Je parle estonien, russe et anglais
Tap the words in order
3. Your own turn
Say which languages you speak and one you don't.
See an example
Je parle estonien, russe et anglais. Je parle un peu français.
Compare your phrase with the model. Speech and free writing are not automatically graded here.
Try the exercises and your own phrase. You can also move on with support.