French: The Polished Speaker
Like Duolingo, but for French: The Polished Speaker. 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: 9 levels across 2 sections, about 18 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Refining the Reflexes and Mastering the Flow.
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Key ideas in French: The Polished Speaker
- Choosing between 'réaliser' and 'se rendre compte'
- Identifying the incorrect use of 'pour' after 'chercher'
- Actuellement is a false friend
- En fait for factual clarity
- Choosing between réaliser and se rendre compte
- Avoiding the actually trap
- Assister à means to attend
- Identifying the incorrect use of chercher pour
- Aider vs Assister
- Professional misunderstandings
- Actuellement vs En fait
- Assister à vs Aider
- French prefers the 'passive pronominal' (se + verb) over the 'être + past participle' construction for general truths
- Distinguishing between temporal markers and factual corrections
- The passive voice in French often feels heavy or overly academic compared to the fluid pronominal form
- Quickly selecting 'assister à' vs 'aider' in a professional context
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: The Polished Speaker 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 a director has just finished filming a masterpiece, which verb describes their accomplishment?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where French: The Polished Speaker takes you
Eliminate persistent anglicisms and subtle grammatical slips to move from 'fluent' to 'indistinguishable from a native speaker.'
- 1
Refining the Reflexes
- Purging the 'Franglais' Shadow
- Subjunctive: The Stylistic Choice
- 2
Mastering the Flow
- Syntactic Elegance and Register
2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
French: The Polished Speaker is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. 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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