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 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!

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.

Patrice is not feeling well and thinks he might have eaten something that didn't agree with him. Sophie tries to help with some good advice.

Humanity has always dreamed of flying through the air. That dream was made possible with the arrival of the zeppelin at the end of the nineteenth century.

Nelly goes over the most common endings of feminine and masculine nouns, including some exceptions. Her tips will help you master the tricky subject of gender in French!

Nelly will share a few tips to help you determine whether a noun is masculine or feminine in French.

In centuries past, when a person's honor was offended, he would challenge the culprit to a duel. The last duel in France took place as recently as 1967, between two respected politicians!

Sophie and Patrice will teach you the names of colors, from basic ones to the more unusual ones. For example, do you know what grège is?

Nelly goes over some useful phrases for expressing love, from telling a friend you appreciate them to promising your partner that you'll love them for the rest of your life. A very romantic video for Valentine's Day!

Nelly gives us some more examples of descriptive adjectives that can replace the formulation "très (very) + adjective."

Nelly will show you an easy trick to improve your French level: avoid overusing the formula "très (very) + adjective" by replacing it with a more descriptive adjective.

Nelly concludes her lesson on personality vocabulary with some adjectives to describe negative traits.

Enrich your vocabulary and impress your French-speaking friends next time you need to describe someone's personality. Just be careful with masculine and feminine endings!

Nelly will teach you some essential vocabulary for describing people's personality. In Part 1, she focuses on positive traits.

Concluding her overview of the five fundamental grammar rules in French, Nelly introduces the concepts of singular and plural, as well as the conjugation of verbs.

Nelly explains the five most important grammar rules you'll need to know to learn French. In this first part, she focuses on sentence structure and gender.

If you want to sound like a real French person, practice the art of conversation by taking a few cues from Nelly. There are many polite ways to conclude a conversation. And, talking about the weather is always a good way to keep the conversation flowing.

In this video, Nelly will teach you all the different ways of saying "thank you" and "you're welcome" in French, among other common phrases.

How do you ask how a person is doing in "real" French, the French we use in our daily lives? Watch this great video to find out.

Nelly discusses some more faux amis (false cognates) in English and French. You'll need to be especially careful with some of these, such as "excited" and excité.

Nelly will introduce you to some of the most common French faux amis (false cognates)—words that may look easy to understand because they resemble English, but mean something entirely different. Learning these might help you avoid some embarassing situations!

Patrice and Sophie explain the use of the twenty-four-hour clock in French. It's more widely used in France than in English-speaking countries, and it's very helpful for making sure you don't miss your plane or an important appointment!

Listen to the young couple Ahlam and Timothé from Avignon as they carry out short, simple conversations on various topics.