Learn To Speak French French Fluently

Learn To Speak French French Fluently How To Speak the French Language ChaptersThe French Language: French DialectsHow to Speak Fluent French FastPractise Speaking French With These Easy TipsSpeak French Right: French PronunciationLearning to Speak French: Perfecting Your French AccentLearn To Speak French SlangWhen you learn a language, you start with grammar, vocabulary, the French tenses, basic French phrases… It’s all very well for beginner French lessons, but if you want to speak French fluently you will need to go further. To become truly bilingual, you need to get a feel for the language, become immersed in it. Step up your French speaking skills with these tips.French sounds more musical than English because there is more ebb and flow in the stress of syllables within a sentence since, as we have seen, the last syllable of a word is stressed no matter how long the word. But is is also musical because, over the whole sentence, the last word is stressed the most - like a note held at the end of a musical phrase.So while an ENGLISH sentence mig ht be stressed in various places,Une phrase en francais sera toujours stressée sur le dernier MOT.I am GOING shopping. Je vais faire les COURSES.Luke, I AM your father. Luke, je suis ton PÈRE.Learn To Speak French SlangIn French class, you are taught a rather formal version of the language. French teachers usually don’t teach you any oaths nor French slang. However, as soon as you make it to France, you will be confronted with sphinxlike sentences such as:“Écoute, j’me barre, j’ai rendez-vous chez l’toubib.” Listen, I’m going now, I have an appointment at the doctor’s.“J’ai la dalle. Je pourrais bouffer sans arrêt.” I’m hungry. I could eat all the time.“T’as vu la nana? J’la kiffe, elle est trop sympa.” You see that girl? I love her, she’s so nice.Slang words in French come from various sources:A few come from regional languagesothers from English (être scotché à quelquechose, to be glued to something; from Scotch tape)some are shortened vers ions of common words, like “mimi”, cute, from “mignon” - c’est trop mimi! It’s so cute!a few are shortened forms of longer expressions: “ta gueule!” for “ferme ta gueule!” “close your trap!” (”gueule” is the word used for the mouths of animals)or re-imagining of words with the addition of suffixes or prefixes, like “microbus”, “tiny”, a twisting of “microbe” or “germ” with a pseudo-Latin ending.Two of the most common sources of French slang, however might be a little surprising:A lot of everyday French expressions, such as “toubib” (doctor) and “kiffer” (to like) come from the Arabic, brought back from Algeria and other North African countries such as Morocco first by soldiers, then by immigrants.Others are in verlan, a sort of French pig Latin. Thus, a woman can be a “meuf” (femme-me-fe-meuf) and a man a “meuh” (from “homme” - me-ho - meh) or “keum” (from another slang expression for a man, “mec” - cem - keum). You might listen to zikmu (music) or go out in a car that’s cheum (moche, ugly) with a meuh whose driving is “complètement ouf!” (fou, crazy).This verlan is a Finnish historic mill village not the french reverse slang Photo credit: SaijaLehto on Visual HuntSo when you learn to speak French, dare to step out of the classroom and listen to French music, watch French films and speak with French people: whether it be one of our private Superprof tutors, a language exchange partner or the new “potes” (friends) you made during your stay in France or Belgium or Switzerland. This is only way you can bring your French skills from: “French as a foreign language” to “bilingual”.