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Leçons avec Lionel - Avoir

Difficulty: beginner French     Length: 3:39     Accent: French

Lionel is a true Renaissance man: not only is he a tour guide and a stand-up comedian, but he’s also a teacher. In this video, he’ll show you how to conjugate the verb avoir (to have) in the present indicative.

Leçons avec Lionel - Couleurs

Difficulty: beginner French     Length: 4:32     Accent: French

Take a class with Lionel as he teaches you colors in French. You’ll even learn how to say all the different shades of blue!

Réservation d'un voyage - au Parc Astérix

Difficulty: beginner French     Length: 2:25     Accent: French

Lionel wants to take a trip to Parc Astérix, a famous amusement park in Paris. He’ll demonstrate everything you need to ask about when making travel plans in French, from transportation to accommodations. You can practice by booking a trip to the park yourself!

Sakhoura et Lily - Conjugaison du verbe apprendre

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:03     Country: France

Our friends Sakhoura and Lily will teach you to conjugate the verb apprendre (to teach or to learn) in a variety of tenses. They also elaborate on some of the things we covered in our Yabla French lesson on liaisons.

Manon et Clémentine - Conjuguer le verbe être

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:52     Country: France

To be or not to be? That is the question that our friends Manon and Clémentine address in this video on the verb être (to be). In their conjugations of the verb être, they demonstrate some of the concepts we covered in our lesson on liaisons.

Margaux et Manon - Conjugaison du verbe faire

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 4:25     Country: France

Our charming teachers, Margaux and Manon, will inflict the verb “faire” on you. They did their best to make this grammar lesson on conjugation relatively painless.

Yabla à Nancy - Le masculin et le féminin

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:01     Accent: French

English speakers may find this strange, but most European languages (including French) assign a gender to every noun. So how are you supposed to know that the word for “apple” (la pomme) is feminine, but the word for “grape” (le raisin) is masculine? Practice, practice, practice!

Manon et Clémentine - Virelangues

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:25     Country: France

Our friends Manon and Clémentine teach us some French tongue-twisters involving birds, turtles, armadillos, and mosquitoes. Try learning them all!

Manon et Clémentine - Mots et animaux

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:18     Country: France

Come learn some animal idioms with Manon and Clémentine! They’ll show you how cats, dogs, and wolves can help you to improve your everyday French.

Margaux et Manon - Magasin de chaussures

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:22     Country: France

Margaux and Manon are playing shop. Margaux is the lucky customer buying shoes and Manon settles for second best, playing the shopkeeper. Now you’re all set to go shoe shopping on your next trip to France!

Margaux et Manon - Le corbeau et le renard

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:59     Country: France

Margaux and Manon recite “The Crow and the Fox,” a famous fable by the French poet Jean de La Fontaine, and explain some of the more difficult lines for us. It’s a good poem to memorize to improve your French!

Margaux et Manon - Emplois du verbe faire

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:27     Accent: French

Faire (to make or to do) is one of the most basic verbs in the French language, and it is used in a large number of expressions and idioms. Margaux and Manon give us some colorful examples of the uses of faire in this video.