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French for Every Stop of Your Trip
Get through France in French: greetings done right, cafés, the bill, tickets, taxis, directions, the hotel, shops and emergencies, plus the signs you’ll see and the tricky prices.
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What it teaches
Enough French to get through a trip to France: hello and please done right (bonjour, bonsoir, vous, s’il vous plaît), what to say when you’re stuck, then ordering in a café, asking for the bill, train tickets, taxis, directions, the hotel, shops, and emergencies; reading the signs you’ll meet (push, pull, exit, closed) and understanding what people say back (for here or to go, turn left); and the French numbers that trip people up on a price (soixante-quinze, quatre-vingt-dix-sept). The AI asks 3 questions, places you, shows a short card, then gives you one situation, sign or price at a time.
How long
85 items. About 65-80 rounds for a beginner, less with some school French, plus a 9-item final: 2 sessions (estimate, not timed with a real student). Trip mode is about 35 rounds. The tutor gives a one-line save code at the end of each session.
The modules
4 modules, drilled one item at a time.
- M0
Core
Hello, please, thank you, vous and rescue phrases
- M1
Say it
Say it: type the French for a situation
- M2
Understand
Understand a sign or a reply
- M3
Numbers
Prices in French numbers
Before it teaches, it asks
- 1When is your trip, and how much French do you have: none, a few words, some school French, or you can get by?
- 2Three quick ones, type what you’d say in French, best guess is fine: (a) ask the waiter for the bill, (b) ask how much something costs, (c) say you don’t understand.
- 3Sur place ou à emporter ?
What’s exact, and what isn’t
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Straight from the course’s own notes.
- Two sources must agree on every phrase
- Each item is tied to a line of Wikivoyage’s French phrasebook (every word of its Model is on that line, plus s’il vous plaît or a listed fill word), and to English Wiktionary (an English phrase entry translated as that phrase, or the French word’s own entry with that meaning). One phrase was left out because the two disagree: bien cuit.
- Numbers
- Every drilled number checked against its own Wiktionary entry and two pieces of code (one builds the words, one reads them back) that agree on 70-99; the 70/80/90 rule and the Belgian and Swiss forms are from the phrasebook.
- Sourced
- 9 short quotes from the phrasebook (hello vs good evening, vous, madame, the dropped ne, water, coffee, garçon, rare steak), matched word for word on the live page 2026-10-11.
- Checked by rule (the tutor's reading)
- What you type in M0 and M1: right meaning + the key words + polite on requests. Small slips pass with a Fix; accents, capitals and punctuation are never graded. Correct French that isn’t listed counts as right: a judgment call.
- Honest limits
- Typed only: it can’t hear you or say anything aloud. France’s French; Quebec forms are outside this course. A few Models join two of the phrasebook’s lines (e.g. allergique aux noix = “I am allergic to...” + “nuts”; noix is the walnut or, loosely, any nut, so it is a practice phrase, not allergy advice).
- Not in it yet
- Role-plays with a waiter or a clerk (the phrasebook gives the traveller’s lines, not theirs, so scripted scenes would need French neither source gives), times and dates, pronunciation.