LANGIVO FRANÇAIS
MODULE ONZE · THE AUDIO LAB
Le Labo Audio
Entendre le français — enfin.
CEFR LevelA1 → B1.1
Estimated TimeAlongside Modules 1–10
StructureLeçon 0 + 2 parts
Tasks180+ interactive
A quick tip before you start: the Lab works on any device, but it's at its best on a laptop or desktop — the French voices are richer, the dictations are easier to type, and the full layout has room to breathe. If you're on your phone right now, bookmark this page and give it a proper sitting at a bigger screen when you can.
MODE D'EMPLOI · HOW THIS MODULE WORKS
Reading gave you time. Audio takes it away.
Modules 1–10 built your French on the page, where you control the pace. This module removes that control — on purpose. Every exercise here is spoken first: your device reads real French aloud, and you answer before you ever see the text. That is the exact skill a page can't teach — catching meaning as it flies past.
The routine for every exercise: listen once at Normal speed with the text hidden. Answer what you can. Listen again — drop to LENT if you need to. Reveal, check — and then say it out loud. Every exercise in this Lab ends in your mouth, not your eyes: replay the clip and repeat it until your version keeps up with the voice. Listening plants the phrase; speaking is what makes it yours. You'll find a Répétez step waiting at the bottom of each exercise to hold you to it.
Every voice is a real French system voice on your own device — pick your favorite in the bar above. Speed pills on each player: Lent (slow, for dictation) · Normal (steady) · Rapide (real-world pace).
Never studied a word of French? Start with Leçon Zéro, just below — thirty gentle minutes of pure listening and repeating, no tests, before anything else asks you a question.
LEÇON ZÉRO · START HERE IF FRENCH IS BRAND NEW
Le Point de Départ
Who this is for: you've just opened the curriculum, or you've never studied a word of French. This lesson asks you no questions until the very end — it simply plays you the raw materials of the language, slowly, and invites you to say them back. Thirty minutes here and Module 1 will feel like meeting an acquaintance instead of a stranger. Already finished Module 1? Skip straight to the Compagnon below.
PREMIÈRE PARTIE · THE MODULE-BY-MODULE SPEAKING & LISTENING COMPANION
Le Compagnon Oral
Every module of Langivo Français taught you something on the page. This companion puts each one in your mouth and in your ear. There are ten sections below — one per module — and each does three things: reminds you what that module gave you, makes you say it aloud with the liaisons marked, and tests whether you can catch it by ear.
How to use it: the day you finish a PDF module, come here and do its section. It takes about fifteen minutes and turns what you just studied into sound before it fades. Already deep into the curriculum? Do every section up to your current module as a spoken review.
DEUXIÈME PARTIE · THE LISTENING CURRICULUM
Le Parcours d'Écoute
Beyond any single module, listening is its own craft. These nine lessons build it deliberately — from telling twin sounds apart, through numbers, dialogues, announcements and dictation, to a full story held in your head — and end with a 100-point exam. Work them in order once you're past Module 4; return to any lesson whenever real French starts washing past you.
LEÇON 11.1 · MINIMAL PAIRS
Les Sons Jumeaux
Objective: tell apart the six sound contrasts that cause most misheard words — u/ou, é/è, the three nasal vowels, and s/z. You'll hear one word; you decide which of two it was.
u /y/ lips rounded, tongue forward (tu) · ou /u/ lips rounded, tongue back (tout) · an /ɑ̃/ (sans) · on /ɔ̃/ (son) · in /ɛ̃/ (vin)
The é/è pair hides a grammar signal: j'ai piqué /e/ is passé composé, je piquais /ɛ/ is imparfait. Your ear is now reading verb tenses.
LEÇON 11.2 · NUMBERS BY EAR
Les Nombres en Direct
Objective: catch prices, times, dates and phone numbers at spoken speed — including the traps of soixante-dix, quatre-vingt-douze and the z that marks douze. Type digits only.
Trap check: deux /dø/ vs douze /duz/ — trust the final z. cent /sɑ̃/ vs cinq /sɛ̃k/ — trust the final k.
LEÇON 11.3 · TWO-VOICE DIALOGUE
Au Café
Objective: follow a complete service exchange between two speakers without the transcript — order, problem, substitution, price, payment. The whole scene recycles Module 3 café vocabulary and Module 4 question forms.
LEÇON 11.4 · ANNOUNCEMENTS & VOICEMAIL
Annonces & Messages
Objective: pull the three or four load-bearing facts out of public-address French and a rapid voicemail — destination, platform, time, delay, phone number — and let everything else wash past.
LEÇON 11.5 · FULL-SENTENCE DICTATION
La Dictée Classique
Objective: write complete sentences from audio alone, spelling included. The sentences deliberately mix passé composé and imparfait, so your ear — not the page — chooses the tense. Accents count.
Dictée protocol: 1st listen — whole sentence, pen down. 2nd listen at LENT — write. 3rd listen at NORMAL — check endings: -é / -ait, silent plurals, agreements.
LEÇON 11.6 · REAL-WORLD SPEED
La Vitesse Réelle
Objective: survive fast, casual French padded with fillers (ben, du coup, bref, genre). Your job is not to catch every word — it's to keep the two or three facts and drop the rest.
LEÇON 11.7 · SHADOWING
L'Ombrage
Objective: speak with the voice, not after it. Each phrase targets liaison and enchaînement — the glue that makes French sound like one long word. Protocol: listen at Lent → repeat alone → play at Normal and speak simultaneously → self-check.
LEÇON 11.8 · A COMPLETE STORY
Le Petit Récit
Objective: hold a 45-second narrative in your head — not sentence by sentence, but as a story with an order, characters and details. Both past tenses, one thread. This is the longest continuous audio in the module: everything before it was training for this.
LEÇON 11.9 · SCORED FINAL · 100 POINTS
Le Test d'Écoute
Objective: everything, together, audio only. One pass at Normal speed per item before answering — that's the rule. Transcripts stay locked until you submit. Pass mark: 70. Under 60% on the number items? Redo Lessons 11.2 and 11.5 before moving on.