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Learn French: The Complete Beginner's Audio Course

10 Lessons with a Native French Teacher – Speak Real Everyday French, from First Greetings to Past Tense, with Grammar, Vocabulary and CultureBy Gipsy PaladiniNarrated by Gipsy Paladini

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Length5h 7m

About this audiobook

Bonjour! Ready to actually speak French? In this complete audio course, French author and language teacher Gipsy Paladini guides English speakers through ten progressive lessons of real, everyday French – no textbook, no rote drills, just her voice, her examples and plenty of space for you to answer out loud. You will introduce yourself, go shopping, order in a restaurant, describe the weather, make a doctor's appointment and learn to ask questions three different ways. Along the way you will master the grammar that trips English speakers up: masculine and feminine, the three verb groups, the near future and the passé composé. Every lesson opens with a review of what came before and closes with a quiz, so nothing slips away. And because a language is never separate from its culture, Gipsy also explains why the French call their police chickens, what really happened on the 14th of July, how the school system works, which cheeses matter and the slang you will actually hear in the street. Over five hours of listening, taught by a native speaker who knows exactly where learners stumble. À bientôt!

Audiobook details

GenreChildren's Literature, Young Adult

Length5 hrs 7 mins

Narrated byGipsy Paladini

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateSep 21, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1Why French Is Easier for English Speakers Than It Looks

2False Friends, and the Right Way to Say Hello in French

3Why Politeness Opens Every Door in France

4Asking Someone's Name, and the Many Uses of Ça Va

5Saying How You Feel and Where You Come from in French

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6How a Silent Letter Turns French Masculine into Feminine

7Introducing Friends and Partners, and the French Liaison

8Husbands, Wives, and Why French Tables Have a Gender

9Every Way to Say Goodbye in French

10A Quiz, Two French Exclamations, and off to Go Shopping

11Buying, Browsing and the Charm of Lèche-Vitrine

12Cash, Change, and the French Confusion Around Monnaie

13Why Every French Noun Needs an Article

14The French Endings That Reveal Who Is Speaking

15Conjugating Your Way Through a French Clothing Store

16Shoe Sizes, Paying up, and the French Past

17A French Shopping Quiz, and a Look Back at Lesson One

18Recalling French Basics Before Travelling the World

19Five Continents, and the Gender of French Countries

20Living in, on and at the Right Country in French

21French Regions, Licence Plates and the Biggest Cities

22Counting Millions and the Nicknames of France

23Verlan, or How Parisians Turn Words Upside Down

24What the French Call People from Paris, Berlin or Manchester

25Making French Adjectives Agree with Talented Hairdressers

26A French Geography Quiz, and a Return to Introductions

27Recalling French Numbers Before Two Key Verbs

28Avoir, the Verb Behind Almost Everything

29Être and the Adjectives That Describe You

30Why the French Have Hunger Instead of Being Hungry

31Laying Rabbits, and Other French Expressions Nobody Can Translate

32Spiders in the Ceiling, and Other French Animal Idioms

33Why French Police Are Called Chickens

34When French Carrots Are Cooked and the Beans Run Out

35Sunburns, Lightning, and the French Hair in the Hand

36A French Idiom Quiz, and the Promise of the Future

37Revisiting French Shopping, Sizes and Where People Live

38Bringing Back Être, Avoir and the Best Expressions

39Doing Something Right Now with En Train De

40Building the Near Future with Aller

41Counting to Twenty in Real French Sentences

42The French Way of Counting by Twenties

43Difficult Numbers, and the First French Question of Time

44Quarters, Halves, and the French Twenty-Four Hour Clock

45Midnight, Ordinals, and Talking About French Weather

46Everything You Need to Describe a French Sky

47A French Quiz on Time, Numbers and the Forecast

48Looking Back Before the French Calendar Year Begins

49The Days of the Week and the French School Day

50French Childcare, Wednesdays off and the Youngest Pupils

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