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You just purchased your first new home in France! How exciting! You cannot wait to show off your new French home to anyone and everyone you know! What better way than to have a good old-fashioned French housewarming party! You have sent out the invitations to all your new French-speaking friends and began to prepare for the festivities! One friend asked you if you were going to hang a crémaillère. Well, first you’ll have to find out what that is… Now your fluent French friends are asking whose home this is, who the party is for, and so on. Maybe your French wasn’t very clear in the invitations you sent out! Who is this Chez person they keep asking about? I know I didn’t invite him!

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! In this French Lower Intermediate lesson you will learn how to make invitations in French, describe trips, and say “at someone’s home” in French using the French word, chez. Finally, we will tell you about the French tradition of hanging a crémaillère in your new home.


What a stroke of luck! You landed this unbelievable French job just in time for their big 10-year anniversary! Your new French boss is feeling extremely generous and wants to throw a party for his beloved French employees. Guess who is in charge of invitations? You guessed it! How do you tell this generous Frenchman that he just hired someone who does not know the proper etiquette for sending invitations in French? Should these be formal or informal? Even more than that… how do you say, “I invite you to the 10th anniversary employee party,” in French? You had better find out soon or you can save yourself some time by learning how to accept an invitation instead… to another job interview!

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! In this French Lower Intermediate lesson you will learn many different ways to extend, accept, or refuse invitations in French - both formally and informally.


Kids are a rough crowd! I threw a party for my son Phillip last weekend in a park in Paris. The little French boys and girls were so cute…all of them talking in French with their adorable little French accents! However, there was this one little French boy, Nicolas. He was absolutely adorable, but he was a handful! If foreigners only meet him, they will continue to believe the French are rude! He yelled at me in French that he was too full. Then the little French boy stomped his feet and told me in French that the food stinks! I don’t think anybody forced him to eat half a cake! If it were not for the fact that he is seven, a friend of my son’s, and well…I am a sucker for a French accent, I might have gotten very upset! Next year his invitation might get lost in the mail…

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Newbie lesson will prepare you to discuss discontinued activities in French, and the reasons for them. Then we will tell you about the inspiration for this French Newbie Lesson, Le petit Nicolas. Visit us at FrenchPod101.com for more great French lessons and learning materials. Leave us a message while you are there.


Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! Having your own place in France has been amazing! You have so much freedom, and it’s quiet when you need peace to study French. The worst thing about having your own place is keeping it nice and tidy. Deciding that a little clutter doesn’t interrupt your French practice, you’ve put the dusting and the dishes on the back burner until you send out invitations in French. Too bad your friends showed up unannounced yesterday! You have to act fast, and so ask them in French to wait five minutes. Meanwhile, you quickly start making the bed and doing the laundry, but you can’t keep the secret for long. You’ve forgotten how to clean the house and so you have to ask your friends for help in French. In this lesson you’ll learn even more French expressions that will help with housework.

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French video series is a brand new way to learn French. Learn everyday vocabulary and key verbs in this French video lesson. Read the French lesson notes to learn about the French verb tenses. Join us, and see what you’ve been missing! Visit us at FrenchPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic French lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Level: Gengo French

Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! You chew and you chew, and finally, you swallow your French food. You’ve done a good job at pretending to like all the French dishes for your co-workers at this dinner, but there are some things you just can’t stomach. Next time, you’ll know to draw the line at the French snails. But since it’s a business dinner, when your French colleagues ask you what you think of the food, you muster up a polite response. You say in French, “The steak tartare is quite good.” When they press for your opinion on the snails though, you admit in French, “They’re not that bad.” Apparently, you’ve passed their test though, because your boss asks you in French, “Why don’t you come along to the horse races tomorrow?” You think to yourself, I can get into some action at the track here in France. Score!

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Gengo lesson will teach you about how to ask for and how to offer an opinion in French. You’ll also learn how to extend someone an invitation in French, so you can invite someone to make a little wager at the races. Get ready to put some euros down on the ponies tomorrow! Visit us at FrenchPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic French lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!