Day One French | Beginner News-Focused French Course

Day One French takes you from absolute zero to listening to news in simple French — including our A1 news podcast, LinguaWire A1 Daily French News — in four weeks. Twenty episodes, five minutes a day, with Louis and Claire. In episode one you learn the verb être (I am, he is, she is), the word le président, the official news formula for saying someone's age — and the first great French quirk: the silent letters French writes but refuses to say. By the end you'll understand and say a real French news sentence: Le nouveau président est âgé de soixante-deux ans. Your lesson sheet (full verb table, all pronouns, numbers 0–20) and the ten-minute interactive homework are at LinguaWire.com/DayOne — link below.

The Day One French finale, with Louis and Claire. Graduation day: a full French news bulletin, election, heatwave, strike, sport, built entirely from the last twenty days, read twice like real radio. Then the handover: you're ready for LinguaWire A1 Daily French News, a new episode every day, real news stories in slow, clear A1 French. Subscribe via the link in the show notes and your first real daily episode arrives tomorrow morning. ▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework: https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/20 🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news: https://linguawire.com/french Learn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple. #LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

Episode nineteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the penultimate episode. Headlines don't speak full French; they speak telegram: the verb deleted, the heavy words left standing. Today you learn to expand them back into sentences you already know, drill three real headlines built entirely from series vocabulary, and pick up the diplomacy kit. Tomorrow: graduation, a full French news bulletin. ▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework: https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/19 🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news: https://linguawire.com/french Learn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple. #LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

Episode eighteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Yesterday the past, today the future, and in French the future is just going: aller plus a verb in its dictionary form. Plus the business kit (the company, the factory, jobs, to build, to create) and the going-verb's double life: with a place it's motion, with a verb it's the future. Today's sentence: L'entreprise va construire une nouvelle usine et créer trois mille emplois. ▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework: https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/18 🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news: https://linguawire.com/french Learn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple. #LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

Episode seventeen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. A milestone: your first full two-sentence news story, exactly as breaking news is written. Today: the earthquake, un tremblement de terre, an earth-trembling, drama built from plain words, plus the past tense going plural: one earthquake hit, many people have lost. Today's story: Un tremblement de terre a frappé la région dans la nuit. Beaucoup de gens ont perdu leur maison. ▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework: https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/17 🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news: https://linguawire.com/french Learn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple. #LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

Episode sixteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Final week. News is mostly about things that already happened, so today you learn to recognise the French past: avoir plus a past participle. He HAS declared, she HAS said, one pattern moves your whole vocabulary into yesterday. Plus war and peace, the vocabulary of the biggest stories. Today's sentence: Le président a déclaré hier : la guerre est finie. ▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework: https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/16 🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news: https://linguawire.com/french Learn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple. #LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

Episode fifteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the week-three finale. News exists to answer questions, so today you get the question kit: qui, que, où, quand, pourquoi, comment, plus vouloir, the verb of wanting, and the three ways French asks any question: raise your voice, bolt on est-ce que, or flip the verb like a newsreader. Today's sentence: Qui est la nouvelle ministre et que veut-elle ? ▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework: https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/15 🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news: https://linguawire.com/french Learn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple. #LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

Episode fourteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Bad news is news, and bad news is full of negatives. Today's quirk is the most French piece of grammar so far: the negation sandwich, one little word before the verb, one after, plus the great collapse that turns any noun into no-noun. And the fixed phrase you've been saying since weather day finally gets decoded. Today's sentence: Dans le nord, il n'y a pas d'électricité et les écoles ne sont pas ouvertes. ▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework: https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/14 🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news: https://linguawire.com/french Learn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple. #LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning