French for Your First Conversation
Like Duolingo, but for French for Your First Conversation. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 11 levels across 3 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Music of the Language, Building Your First Sentences, and Sounding Like a Local. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in French for Your First Conversation
- French syllables are pronounced with equal timing and energy
- Final consonants like t, s, d, and x are usually silent in French
- English uses word stress to highlight specific syllables, while French does not
- The end of a French word is often 'cut off' compared to its spelling
- A liaison occurs when a word ending in a silent consonant is followed by a vowel
- The French R is guttural and made at the back of the throat
- Recognition of the flat, non-stressed rhythm of French syllables compared to English
- The liaison turns a silent letter into a bridge to the next word
- The French R is distinct from the English R, which uses the tip or middle of the tongue
- Application of the silent end rule to common French word endings
- Predicting when a silent consonant becomes audible due to a liaison
- Nasal vowels require air to pass through both the mouth and the nose
- The 'n' or 'm' after a vowel is a signal to nasalize the vowel, not a separate consonant sound
- Identifying the physical mechanism for producing the French R
- Being, having, going, and wanting are the core pillars of basic French conversation
- Power verbs allow you to express needs and states without knowing hundreds of specific action words
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives French for Your First Conversation the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you see the word 'chat' (cat) in French, how do you handle that final 't'?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where French for Your First Conversation takes you
Skip the grammar tables and learn the musical logic of French. This course gives you the essential sounds, social cues, and 'power verbs' needed to navigate your first real interaction with confidence.
- 1
The Music of the Language
- Sounding French without the Stress
- 2
Building Your First Sentences
- The Lego Method of Verbs
- The Social Logic of French
- 3
Sounding Like a Local
- Thinking Time and Fillers
3 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
French for Your First Conversation is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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