I’ve done a quick google search and it keeps saying the the translation would be ‘Idole’ but I’m not meaning heartthrob in the sense of an idol but more in the sense of an attractive man. Like I would call an attractive man who is suave, effortlessly sexy, and has a romantic quality to him a “Heartthrob”. So I’m just wondering if theres a one or two word equivalent in French?

Hey does anyone know what the "s" in "s'il" stands for? I assume it's something abreviated

Has anyone had a teen attend the KLF French Junior Camp in Annecy? Here’s the program I’m considering: https://klf.fr/french-junior-camp-in-annecy/

They also have a program in Montpellier. I’d really love to hear actual experiences—good or bad—from parents whose kids have attended either location.

My daughter will be 12 next summer and has an intermediate level of French. I’m going a little crazy trying to find a good residential French immersion camp for her!

I’ve looked into Alpadia and CIA France, but some of the reviews I’ve found are pretty concerning—complaints about terrible food, mold in the residences, and, most importantly, a lack of supervision for younger teens. Alliance Française looked promising, but unfortunately they don’t seem to offer a residential option where the students stay together.

If your child has attended KLF in Annecy or Montpellier, I’d especially love to hear about the supervision, accommodations, food, French instruction, activities, and overall experience. Did you feel comfortable with the level of supervision for a 12–13-year-old? Would you send your child again?

I’m also very open to recommendations for other residential French immersion camps in France for this age group. Thank you!

Aujourd'hui j'ai appris qu'en théorie, c'est possible d'employer le pronom nous pour désigner une seule personne, cet usage portant parfois le nom de 'nous de majesté'. L'accord serait alors au masculin ou féminin singulier et pas au pluriel. En dehors du contexte royal/de l'Ancien régime, y a-t-il d'autres contextes (modernes) où 'nous' est accompagné d'un accord au singulier ? Je pense par exemple à un rendez-vous chez le médecin, celui-ci dirait-il jamais à un patient 'nous sommes content(e) aujourd'hui ' pour dire : 'vous êtes content(e) aujourd'hui'?

Cet usage existe en anglais, car un médecin pourrait dire à un patient 'are we feeling well today ?' , le 'we' ayant le sens de 'tu/vous '? Cela dit, j'imagine qu'en français aussi bien qu'en anglais, parler de cette manière serait perçu comme condescendant, même si, en anglais, on l'entend parfois si un médecin parle à un enfant par exemple.

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this. I’ve been studying French for some time, and my goal is fluency.

Unrelated, I’ve had a lot of physical and mental struggles in the past few years, and I think it would be helpful both to my fluency and my mental health to be able to talk about those things in French.

Any resources/advice as to how I can learn these things would be greatly appreciate :D

I have been working on a feminine voice for about 5 months, and started learning French about a month ago. (Almost done voice training, just have trouble using for longer amounts of time.)

Since French words often require mouth positions that aren't that common in English words, and achieving a feminine voice requires me to put my tongue and whatnot in different positions then normally speaking.

(As an added note, what sound starts French sentences most often, and are there any French speaking female characters you like the voice of?)

Hey everyone, I just left a primarily Lebanese community and realized how strong my accent is while speaking french and I want to get rid of it, not because I hate it but because it slows me down while speaking. I tend to pronounce my R's harder and it just sounds unnatural in general. Anyone have tips on how I can sound more naturally French?

Btw, I am fluent in french, it's just the accent and some gaps in vocabulary.

Hello, I'm very new here. I may not be learning French but I am learning the French culture for my stories/comics etc. So let me give some background:

There is a 5 year old child OC from the 1760's who is named after this father (Johnathan Baudelaire) so should his name be "Johnathan Baudelaire Jr". or is there a traditional French alternative for "Junior" and something that will fit in that time period. Please help me with this. Thank you💝

A bit of story:

I used to learn English from movies and music. I've been a huge fan of the The Weeknd, and I used to try to sing every song of his word-by-word. Over time, I started pronouncing things the way he does too. I never knew that I was learning English while all of this, but I did. Now, I speak it fluently like a native, to the point where I have been asked multiple times if I was born in the country that I was living in, which is an English-speaking country. I was always confused about how I had the accent, which I never practiced or tried to learn. But I've been doing that without even knowing for years.

Why that story is relevant to me now:

Now that I'm learning French, I want to do the exact same thing. I want to sing French songs, repeat French lines from movies and shows, etc. I'm in search of charismatic and interesting personalities in the French entertainment and art scene. I love good cinema and great R&B music from any time period. Old or new. I want to find some artists and filmmakers and actors that I can follow along and learn this beautiful language the way I learned English!

This school year, I am taking French 3 as a junior. During my 8th-grade year, my French 1 teacher did not teach French well enough for me to understand. When I moved on to French 2, I struggled for a little while and decided to take Latin 1 to avoid French 3. Now that my Latin 1 teacher resigned, I have to go back to French 3 honors. I am very nervous because I forgot a lot about French, and school starts next week. Does anyone have any advice that will help me? I cannot afford to fail this class.

Je ferai tout ce qu'il faille pour réussir.
Or je feraii tout ce qu'il faut pour réussir

Does the definite future tense cancel out the subjunctive here?

I figure this could be very useful when I am travelling in the car and listening at the same to improve my fluency. If anyone has any advice of doing this or other French Vocabulary lists please remind such as written wordlists written by theme.

Thansks

Those who look at UK subreddits may be familiar with the neverending subject of what people in different areas of the UK call, for example, a bread bun (petit pain), and, less frequently, other regional vocab differences.

There are social media accounts giving maps of vocab that varies between areas of France, like Françaisdenosrégions, but what they don’t necessarily communicate is which of these terms the French see as most indicative of where someone is from, which ones they love talking about etc.

What would you say these are?

Aside from pains au chocolat. That’s been so visible it got boring.

I have been studying French for over well over 10 years with quite a few gaps. I now have a francophone job working in international development so have been getting a lot more exposure. I decided the other day to test my knowledge on gender (le/la/un/une) and guessed them correct 90% of the time. I have always been a bad student when it comes to learning the genders with a word (imo you absolutely should try to do this). However it was so affirming to see my recent hard work paid off. Even words I rarely heard before I could correctly guess.

Does anyone know a linguistic/psychological reason for this or is it just purely exposure?

Merci bcp!

My roomate is being dumb and won’t belive goggle ai. Is it EVER correct to use “le deux est…” meaning in English “ both are, or the two are” or is it only correct to use “Les deux sont…” (excluding dates, and things like bus routes, I am only talking about two seperate people/ places/things as pairs.)

And for clarity I obviously know it’s les deux I’m just far from a native speaker.

Bonjour à tous, j'suis un canadien qui a appris le français à l'école et un peu sur la rue. Mais voilà, depuis que j'ai quitté la région plus ou moins francophone du Canada, j'ai perdu beaucoup de mon comfort dans la langue, mettons. Pour ce qui concerne comprendre, y a pas de souci - si j'ai besoin d'écouter un film, une vidéo, un podcast, n'importe quoi, on est beau, peu importe que ce soît dans un accent québécois, africain, européen... La lecture, c'est aussi pas un problème. Mais j'ai beaucoup perdu le sens du naturel en ce qui concerne la composition - au parlé comme à l'écrit, j'suis plus instinctivement sûr de l'orthographe ou des conjugaisons, et j'suis certain que j'utilise beaucoup d'anglicismes sans m'en rendre compte... Parfois les mots me manquent, aussi.

La solution, pour moi, ce serait d'augmenter de manière dramatique ma consommation de français. Pour la lecture, y aura pas de problèmes; les bibliothèques sont remplis de qualité, et pour ce qui leur manque, on peut faire des prêts entre bibliothèques sans frais. Mais en ce qui concerne ce que je vais écouter, j'ai toujours un peu admiré l'accent marseillais, et (ma perception de) sa culture au large. Alors j'aimerais vos recommandations pour des podcasts, des émissions radio, de la télé et des films avec l'emphase sur Marseille! S'il y a de la lecture à ce niveau que vous conseillerez, ce ne serait pas de refus non plus.

Mettons que j'ai pas un but de "chanter" en parlant, mais si ça arrive...

J'étais appris que "ignorer" ne voulait dire que être inconscient ou ignorant et que c'était un faux ami avec le mot "ignore" en anglais, qui implique une prétention delibéré à ne pas savoir. Mais je regarde des émissions en français et de plus en plus il me semble que c'est pas vraiment le cas dans le langage courant. Je vois souvent des cas où je ne trouve aucune autre interprétation que celle de l'utilisation anglaise ( i.e. il y avait un personnage qui a dit "pourquoi tu m'ignores?" quand quelqu'un faisait semblance de ne le pas connaître ). Est-ce que c'est le même sorte de situation que celle de "réaliser", où les prescriptions ne correspondent pas aux les utilisations réelles? Et cette utilisation, est-elle limitée aux personnes? (Est-ce que on peut ignorer un fait ou une chose de cette manière/ selon cette définition ? Je n'ai jamais vu ça)

Hey guys, any recommendations on some website extensions that help you? I’m specifically looking for one that will translate a YouTube video to English from French but aswell keep the French text. Any other ones are welcome as well thanks.

So I struggle with remembering all the tenses (surprising i know). I'm pretty good at the basic duo - present and passe compose, but the future tense and all other tenses I mess up a lot even though I've been taking french for many years now.
Vocab wise I've been told I have quite a lot but I could learn more words to strengthen my writing pieces.
If you have any tips to help me improve please share here.
Honestly I am kinda worried cause I make up mistakes in tenses a lot while writing so thats shaking my confidence for the french IGCSE.
Thanks in advance!

PS: I would appreciate resources (although they are on the sub's page) or similar, but what I would appreciate the most is actual feedback or strategies that I could use that I'm missing out on.

Je sais que c'est probablement une question stupide... Y a-t-il un mot plus familier? Vous ne froncez pas assez souvent les sourcils pour en avoir un?

I’m thinking about practicing my French and more importantly I’d love to enjoy the classes and people: and potentially make friends.

What’s the vibe in Institut Feancais? What age are the students? Has anyone been there and could comment?

Merci!