These are for a range of different levels so do what you can!
Introduce yourself. Talk about your birthday, hobbies, languages you speak, etc.
Create characters and introduce them
Talk about your favourite book/book series. Why do you like it?
Favourite movie?
Favourite animal(s)?
Least favourite animal(s)?
What’s the weather like outside? What was it like yesterday? What do you hope it’ll be like tomorrow?
Describe your favourite colour without using the word
Talk about a childhood memory
Talk about a family member
Describe your pet/a pet you want
Where do you see yourself in the next year? next 5 years? next 10?
Describe your dream date
Complain about something that’s been bugging you lately
Talk about your day
Write a letter to anyone. Your mom, your friend, a stranger you saw on the train
Write a poem
Write about anything but the first letter of each sentence has to spell a word
Write what you need to do in the next week, month, year
Talk about your favourite food
What was your favourite story you read as a kid? Who read it to you?
Why did you start learning your target language(s)?
What language(s) would you like to learn in the future?
Talk about a dream you had
Pretend you’re at a restaurant. What type of conversations will you have there?
What’s something you’d never tell anyone? Why would you never tell anyone?
Your pet suddenly got the ability to talk. What do they say to you?
You’ve woken up somewhere you’ve never been before. Describe what it looks like
What do you want to do in the future?
Dream trip?
Do you want kids? Why or why not?
Translate a conversation you had with someone
Talk about your favourite weather
Favourite season?
Pretend you’re telling your childhood stuffed animal something
Write a to-do list
Talk about your favourite plant(s)
Write about something funny that happened to you or someone you know
Write about a time you were scared
A time when you were happy
Sad
Angry
Miserable
Give a summary of different books/movies you’ve read/watched
Write about your favourite teacher. Why did you like them?
What’s your favourite meal? Who makes it?
What’s your dream job? It doesn’t have to be realistic
What names do you like. Why?
Write about one of your fears
What motivates you to learn your target language(s)?
Chanty
mourir to die déceder to pass away déceder de cause naturelle, mourir sa belle mort to die a natural death s’éteindre to pass away (usually of old age) trouver la mort to die (by an accident) passer l’arme à gauche to kick the bucket (lit. to pass the weapon to the left) casser sa pipe to die (lit. to break your pipe) la mort death le décès death (more polite) le mort, le défunt the dead person le corps, le cadavre the corpse, the body le cercueil the casket, the coffin la bière the coffin (more polite) le porteur de cercueil pallbearer le deuil mourning être en deuil to mourn, to be in mourning faire le deuil de qqn, faire son deuil to grieve for something or someonee déplorer la perte de to mourn the loss of pleurer la morte de qqn to mourn the death of someone le cortège funèbre a funeral procession le corbillard hearse les funerailles funeral l’organisation des funérailles funeral arrangements l’enterrement burial la chapelle funéraire, la maison funéraire funeral home les obsèques, le service funèbre funeral service la crémation cremation le bûcher funéraire funeral pyre le cimitière cemetery le lieu de sépulture burial site la pierre tombale tombstone la tombe, le tombeau tomb, grave le caveau plot l’épitaphe (f.) epitaph
Here are some shorthand abbreviations of common words in French that you might see or would like to use when texting:
Slt (salut) - Hi
Pk (pourquoi) - why
Bcp (beaucoup) - a lot
Stp (s’il te plâit) - please
Tkt (ne t'inquiète pas) - no worries
à tte (à toute) - see you, bye
Mdr (mort de rire) - lol
Ptdr (pété de rire) - lmao
Dsl (desolée) - sorry
Cendrillon: Cinderella La Belle et la Bête: Beauty and the Beast La Belle au Bois Dormant: Sleeping Beauty La Petite Sirène The Little Mermaid Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Le Bossu de Notre-Dame: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Le Livre de la Jungle: The Jungle Book Le Roi Lion: The Lion King Alice au Pays des Merveilles: Alice in Wonderland Hercule: Hercules Les 101 Dalmatiens: 101 Dalmatians Les Aristochats: The Aristocats Bernard et Bianca au Pays des Kangourous (Bernard et Bianca en Australie): The Rescuers Down Under Oliver et Compagnie: Oliver & Co. Pinocchio: Pinocchio Raiponce: Tangled La Reine des Neiges: Frozen La Belle et le Clochard: Lady and the Tramp Atlantide, l'empire Perdu: Atlantis, the Lost Empire Basil, Détective Privé: The Great Mouse Detective La Planète au Trésor : Un Nouvel Univers: Treasure Planet Frère des Ours: Brother Bear Rox et Rouky: The Fox and the Hound La Princesse et la Grenouille: The Princess and the Frog Les Mondes de Ralph: Wreck-It Ralph Kuzco, l'empereur Mégalo: The Emperor’s New Groove Merlin l'Enchanteur: The Sword in the Stone Dingo et Max (Complètement Dingo): A Goofy Movie Robin des Bois: Robin Hood Aladdin: Aladdin Cars: Quatre Roues (Les Bagnoles): Cars Dumbo: Dumbo Fantasia: Fantasia Lilo et Stitch: Lilo & Stitch Mulan: Mulan Peter Pan: Peter Pan Toy Story (Histoire de Jouets) : Toy Story
*Titles in parentheses are Canadian French
Here are some basic fruits and vegetables in French. Hope it will be useful to somebody…
(I’ve been inspired by another post but I can’t remember the blog)
Expressing thoughts…
Je pense que + indicative – I think that
Je ne pense pas que + subjonctif - I don’t think that
Je crois que + indicatif – I think that
Je ne crois pas que + subjonctif - I don’t think that
À mon avis – in my opinion
D’après moi – in my view
J’ai l’impression que + indicatif (in the negative [je n’ai pas l’impression que] it uses the subjunctive) – I have the feeling that
Il me semble que + indicatif (in the negative it uses the subjunctive) – it seems to me that
Je suis d’avis que + indicatif (mostly) – I’m of the opinion that
Je trouve que + indicatif (in the negative it uses the subjunctive) – I find that
Personnellement – personally
Pour ma part – for my part
Pour moi – for me
Supporting an opinion
On dit que + indicatif (in the negative it uses the subjunctive) – they say that
J’ai entendu dire que + indicatif – I heard that
J’ai entendu parler de + nom – I heard about
Par exemple – for example
Staying neutral
Cela dépend de + indicatif (unless que is used) – that depends on
C'est une question de point de vue – It all depends on your point of view.
Il est / C'est difficile de – It’s hard to
Il m'est impossible de donner un avis (définitif) sur – I can’t express a (definite) opinion on
Je n'ai jamais vraiment réfléchi à – I have never really thought about
Je n'ai pas d'opinion bien précise à / arrêtée sur – I don’t have strong feelings about
Je ne me le suis jamais demandé – I’ve never wondered about it
J’ignore tout de – I don’t know anything about
I think I got a lot of these from a particular website, maybe about.com, I can’t remember because I got it from a sheet I made for a student a while ago.
-If there are any questions or corrections lemme know:)
Au coeur de l’histoire (history)
les chasseurs de nazis (nazi hunters)
france musique
on ne parle pas la bouche pleine (food + literature)
les chemins de la philosophie
le collège de france (advanced)
il était une fois (fairy tales)
la main verte (gardening)
la méthode scientifique
regardez voir (photography)
sur les épaules de darwin
very good trip (rock n roll)
chroniques du ciel (aviation)
la tête au carré (popularization)
les p’tits bateaux (pros answering children’s qs)
les grands musiciens (interview with a pro musician)
littérature moderne et contemporaine
Arte radio (politics, health, history, tech…)
slate (similarish to ted talks)
hashtag (debating very current problems)
quoi de meuf (women talking about pop culture)
affaires sensibles (trials)
les gentilshommes (relationships men/women)
bouddhisme et méditation
kiffe ta race (about racial problematics)
le flow (well being)
sois gentille dis merci fais un bisou (portraits of women)
les couilles sur la table (men talking to women)
miroir miroir (destroy social norms)
du grain à moudre (debating sensible questions)
coucou le q (casual sex ed)
change ma vie (about personal growth)
la poudre (powerful women’s interviews)
nice to hear you (talks with creators, ceos, artists and nice humans)
mortel (to reconcile you with death and mortality)
la menstruelle (periods)
La cartouche (gaming)
la chronique ciné
studio 404 (tech)
geek inc (nerd chatter)
nouveau monde (innovations)
2h de perdues (shitty movies)
silence on joue (gaming)
radio rôliste (role playing, mmorpg)
nociné (pop culture/movies)
season one (to discover new shows)
hi friends! this list is basically a mash of literature/writing-related words…?
【 books/writing forms 】
l’anthologie (f) | anthology
le brouillon (m) | draft
le dictionnaire des synonymes (m) | thesaurus
épistolaire | epistolary
l’épopée (f) | epic
la nouvelle (f) | short-story
la pièce de théâtre (f) | play
la poésie (f) | poetry
la prose (f) | prose
la rédaction (f) | essay
le roman (m) | novel
【 literary devices 】
l’allégorie (f) | allegory
l’allitération (f) | alliteration
l’anaphore (f) | anaphora
la comparaison (f) | simile
l’hyperbate (f) | hyperbaton
l’imagerie (f) | imagery
la litote (f) | litotes/meiosis
la métaphore (f) | metaphor
l’oxymore (m) | oxymoron
la rime (f) | rhyme
【 people in the writing process 】
le/la dramaturge | playwright
l’écrivain (m) | author
l’éditeur/éditrice | publisher
l’égérie (f) | muse/creative inspiration
le rédacteur en chef/ la rédactrice en chef | editor (of a newspaper)
le réviseur/la réviseure | editor
【 punctuation 】
l’apostrophe (f) | apostrophe
les deux-points (m) | colon
les guillemets (m) | quotation marks (« »)
la parenthèse (f) | parenthesis/bracket
le point d’exclamation (m) | exclamation mark
le point d’interrogation (m) | question mark
le point (final) (m) | full stop
le point-virgule (m) | semi-colon
les points de suspension (m) | ellipsis
la ponctuation (f) | punctuation
le tiret (m) | dash
le trait d’union (m) | hyphen
la virgule (f) | comma
【 words 】
la consonne (f) | consonant
l’espace (f) | space
la lettre (f) | letter (of the alphabet)
le mot (m) | word
le paragraphe (m) | paragraph
la phrase (f) | sentence
la syllabe (f) | syllable
la voyelle (f) | vowel
【 extra 】
la bibliothèque (f) | library
la librairie (f) | bookstore
la littérature (f) | literature
la grammaire (f) | grammar
l’orthographe (f) | spelling
le stylo plume (m) | fountain pen
la tranche (f) | spine (of a book)
To stay: Je vais rester à la maison avec toi aujourd’hui - I am going to stay home with you today
To remain for a while: Ton coup de soleil va rester quelques jours - Your sunburn will remain for a few days
What is left: Il va rester assez pour demain - We are going to have enough left for tomorrow
One still has to: Il me reste à dire au revoir - I still have to say goodbye (i.e. and then I’ll be completely done)
Nevertheless: Il reste qu’ils vont partir plus tôt que prévu - Nevertheless, they are going to leave earlier than planned
👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾
Pass along and use the shit out of them