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LANGIVO FRANÇAIS · PRACTICE COMPANION
Module 1 — Getting Started
Practice companion — listen, speak, and drill everything from Module 1.
CEFR level
A0 → A1.1
Covers
Lessons 1.1 – 1.8
Exercises
19 · listen & speak
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PARTIE A
Sons, lettres & accents
Lessons 1.1–1.2. Your ear learns the letter names and the accents first — it's exactly what French speakers dictate to you over the phone.
PARTIE B
Saluer & se présenter
Lessons 1.3–1.4. The right tu / vous, the right greeting, and the three sentences that open almost every conversation.
PARTIE C
Nombres, prix & dates
Lessons 1.5–1.7. Counting to 100 (including quatre-vingts), giving a price, a phone number, a date — and dodging the day/month trap.
PARTIE D
Tout ensemble
Lesson 1.8. A real first meeting — greeting, tu/vous, identity, age, job — in one exchange, then your written portrait.
LANGIVO FRANÇAIS · PRACTICE COMPANION
Module 2 — Essential Grammar
Practice companion — the machinery behind every French sentence: articles, verbs, questions, negation.
CEFR level
A1.1 → A1.2
Covers
Lessons 2.1 – 2.10
Exercises
20 · listen & speak
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Listen
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Speak
Click the mic and say it aloud. The check shows what it heard.
Check
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PARTIE A
Articles & genre
Lessons 2.1–2.3. Every noun carries a gender, and the article announces it. Lock in le / la / l' / les and un / une / des.
PARTIE B
Accord & pluriel
Lessons 2.3–2.4. Adjectives agree with their noun, and the plural is usually silent — so the article does the talking.
PARTIE C
Les verbes au présent
Lessons 2.5–2.7. The three regular families (-er, -ir, -re) and the four irregular workhorses être, avoir, aller, faire — plus the au / aux contractions.
PARTIE D
Construire, demander, nier
Lessons 2.8–2.10. Word order and adjective placement (BAGS), the three ways to ask a question, and negating with ne… pas.
PARTIE E
Tout ensemble
Everything from the module in real exchanges — a restaurant order, a first meeting, and your own portrait.
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Module 3 — Daily Life Vocabulary
Practice companion — your people, your meals, your home, your day.
CEFR level
A1.2 → A1.3
Covers
Lessons 3.1 – 3.10
Exercises
20 · listen & speak
Answers
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Listen
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Speak
Click the mic and say it aloud. The check shows what it heard.
Check
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PARTIE A
Ma famille & les gens
Lessons 3.1–3.2. Say who belongs to whom with mon / ma / mes, then describe what people look like — with adjectives that agree and land in the right place.
PARTIE B
À table
Lessons 3.3–3.4. Food, the partitive article (du / de la / de l' / des), and ordering a meal with je voudrais and je prends.
PARTIE C
Chez moi & ma journée
Lessons 3.5–3.6. Place things in a room with prepositions, and narrate your day with pronominal verbs (se lever, se coucher).
PARTIE D
Couleurs, nombres & l'heure
Lessons 3.7–3.9. Agree colors (and spot the invariable ones), handle numbers past 100, and tell the time on the everyday and 24-hour clocks.
PARTIE E
Au magasin
Lesson 3.10. Point at what you want with ce / cet / cette / ces, then put the whole module together in a real shopping exchange.
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Module 4 — Conversation Foundations
Practice companion — the real conversations: a café counter, a stranger asking the way, a market stall, a hotel desk.
CEFR level
A1.3 → A2.1
Covers
Lessons 4.1 – 4.10
Exercises
20 · listen & speak
Answers
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Listen
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Speak
Click the mic and say it aloud. The check shows what it heard.
Check
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PARTIE A
Au café & au restaurant
Lessons 4.1–4.2. Order politely with je voudrais and je prends, then run a whole meal on the near future (je vais prendre).
PARTIE B
Trouver son chemin
Lessons 4.3–4.4. Ask the way with prepositions (à côté du, en face de), then give directions with the imperative (tournez, prenez…).
PARTIE C
Faire les magasins
Lessons 4.5–4.6. Ask permission with pouvoir and replace the noun with le / la / les; at the market, every quantity takes plain de.
PARTIE D
Rencontres & small talk
Lessons 4.7–4.8. Meet people (tu or vous?), introduce yourself, and keep the chat going with weather, hobbies, and weekend plans.
PARTIE E
Rendez-vous & pépins
Lessons 4.9–4.10. Book a table or an appointment, give a date, then handle what goes wrong — a polite complaint or a real emergency.
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Module 5 — Telling Your Story
Practice companion — the module where your French stops living only in the present tense.
CEFR level
A2.1 → A2.2
Covers
Lessons 5.1 – 5.10
Exercises
20 · listen & speak
Answers
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Listen
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Speak
Click the mic and say it aloud. The check shows what it heard.
Check
Every exercise marks itself. Nothing is recorded or sent.
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PARTIE A
Raconter au passé
Lessons 5.1–5.3. Build the passé composé with avoir and with être (agreement!), and learn the irregular participles of the verbs you use most.
PARTIE B
Décrire & choisir le temps
Lessons 5.4–5.5. Form the imparfait for description and habit — then the whole art of the module: choosing between the passé composé (the event) and the imparfait (the backdrop).
PARTIE C
L'avenir & les pronoms
Lessons 5.6–5.7. The futur simple for plans further off, and object pronouns (le / la / les, lui / leur) so you stop repeating every noun.
PARTIE D
La routine
Lesson 5.8. Reflexive verbs for your daily routine — and, with a plural subject, for “each other.”
PARTIE E
Relier les idées
Lessons 5.9–5.10. Join ideas with relative pronouns (qui, que, où) and stitch a real story together with connectors — the payoff of the whole module.
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Module 6 — Reading & Culture
Practice companion — read the Francophone world: notices, short stories, café culture, the news, the Sunday market.
CEFR level
A2.2 → A2.3
Covers
Lessons 6.1 – 6.8
Exercises
20 · read · listen · speak
Answers
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Read
Read each French text twice — skim for the gist, then for detail. Don't translate every word.
Listen
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Speak
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PARTIE A
Lire malin
Lesson 6.1. Skim for the gist, scan for one fact, guess from context — and never trust a faux ami just because it looks like English.
PARTIE B
Deux histoires
Lessons 6.2 & 6.4. Follow a narrative in the past — the passé composé for what happens, the imparfait for how things feel — and read between the lines for the day's order and the characters' feelings.
PARTIE C
La culture en textes
Lessons 6.3 & 6.5. Read a cultural text by its structure — café rituals by idea, the calendar of fêtes by date — and order a coffee or join a tradition like a local.
PARTIE D
Lire l'info
Lesson 6.6. Mine a news article's lead paragraph for the whole story, and tell a fact from an opinion using the guillemets « » and the reporting verbs as your signals.
PARTIE E
Au marché & textes mêlés
Lessons 6.7 & 6.8. Read a scene through the senses at the Sunday market, then match the right strategy to any everyday text — a message, a menu, a note — and fix the classic slips.
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Module 7 — Listening Skills
Practice companion — follow French at real speed: voicemails, numbers, station announcements, café chatter, and accents.
CEFR level
A2.3 → B1.1
Covers
Lessons 7.1 – 7.8
Exercises
20 · listen & speak
Answers
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Listen
Play a clip, then note the facts. Use “Slow” if you need it — but push for the natural pace.
Speak
Click the mic and say it aloud. The check shows what it heard.
Check
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PARTIE A
Prédire, noter & les chiffres
Lessons 7.1–7.2. Predict before you listen, note the load-bearing words on the Qui / Quand / Où / Quoi / Action grid, and catch numbers, times and dates at speed — the 70s, 80s, 90s, and the deux/douze trap.
PARTIE B
Annonces & café
Lessons 7.3–7.4. Decode a station announcement by its fixed slots and the two words that matter most — direction and status — then follow fast, filler-heavy café speech where the ne drops and on means “we.”
PARTIE C
Récits au passé
Lesson 7.5. Take down a past-tense narrative — the passé composé (‑é /e/) for events, the imparfait (‑ait /ɛ/) for background — and get the homophones right (a/à, on/ont, est/et).
PARTIE D
Podcast & accents
Lessons 7.6–7.7. Hold the thread of a longer monologue by tracking its connectors, and map an accent back to the words you already know — the southern -ng, the voiced e's, and the Belgian/Swiss numbers.
PARTIE E
Tout ensemble
Lesson 7.8. Identify the audio type in the first second and reach for the right tool — and trust the newest information when a voicemail and an announcement disagree.
LANGIVO FRANÇAIS · PRACTICE COMPANION
Module 8 — Writing & Expression
Practice companion — write French with control: cohesion, journaling, emails, messages, paragraphs, travel, and argued opinions.
CEFR level
B1.1 → B1.2
Covers
Lessons 8.1 – 8.8
Exercises
20 · write · listen · speak
Answers
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Write
Type your answer, then check. Watch the accents — in writing, most spelling errors are sound errors.
Listen
Play a model or a minimal pair. The sound decides the spelling.
Speak
Click the mic and say it aloud — the same sentence, two registers.
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PARTIE A
Des phrases qui coulent
Lesson 8.1. Cohesion isn't more words — it's better joints. Coordinate equals, subordinate causes, relate with qui / que / où, and pick a connector by its job: add · contrast · cause · conclude.
PARTIE B
Le journal & le passé
Lesson 8.2. The imparfait paints the set (weather, feelings, habits); the passé composé fires the action. On the page, that whole choice is the final vowel — ‑é /e/ or ‑ait /ɛ/.
PARTIE C
Écrire à quelqu'un
Lessons 8.3 & 8.4. A formal email is a fixed frame in vous, with politeness carried by the conditional; a text runs on tu, dropped ne's, and shorthand. The skill is flipping cleanly between them.
PARTIE D
Paragraphes & récits
Lessons 8.5 & 8.6. A paragraph is one idea, built: a topic sentence, supporting details, a close. A travel story marries the imparfait to the passé composé, ordered by time markers and reaching back with the plus-que-parfait.
PARTIE E
Opinions & révision
Lessons 8.7 & 8.8. State a view, justify it, and concede a point for nuance — with doubt, necessity and concession flipping the verb into the subjunctive. Then revise: tenses, homophones, agreements, register, connectors.
LANGIVO FRANÇAIS · PRACTICE COMPANION
Module 9 — Speaking & Pronunciation
Practice companion — speak French out loud: the problem sounds, the melody, liaison, reductions, and holding the floor with confidence.
CEFR level
B1.2 → B1.3
Covers
Lessons 9.1 – 9.8
Exercises
20 · speak & listen
Answers
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Speak
Hear the Model, click the mic, say it aloud. The check shows what it heard.
Listen
Play minimal pairs, liaison sounds, and model dialogues — the ear trains the mouth.
Note
The voice is standard-accent French; recognition scores you, and the self-check covers the fine detail your mouth feels.
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PARTIE A
Les sons & la musique
Lessons 9.1–9.2. An accent lives in a handful of sounds — the u /y/, the throat r, the nasals with no landing N, the silent letters — and in the melody: even syllables, a rise to continue, a fall to finish.
PARTIE B
Enchaîner & réduire
Lessons 9.3–9.4. French glues words into chains — a sleeping consonant wakes as [z], [n] or [t] — and casual speech crushes the rest: dropped ne, swallowed mute e, reduced pronouns (chuis, y a, t'as).
PARTIE C
Raconter
Lesson 9.5. A spoken story has a frame: set the scene in the imparfait, run the events in the passé composé, and land on a reaction — connectors carry it so you never stall.
PARTIE D
Donner son avis
Lesson 9.6. State a view in the indicative, deny one in the subjunctive (soit, ait, fasse, puisse), back it with a reason and example, and concede a point so you sound credible, not blunt.
PARTIE E
Tenir la parole
Lessons 9.7–9.8. Hesitate in French, not in English; reclaim the floor after a cut; and hold a full minute on a map — open → two points → one nuance → close.
LANGIVO FRANÇAIS · PRACTICE COMPANION
Module 10 — Mastery & Review
The capstone — every tense, every register, every skill from Modules 1–9, put to work under real pressure.
CEFR level
B1.3 → B1.3+
Covers
Lessons 10.1 – 10.6
Exercises
20 · everything, together
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Choose
Pick the right tense, register, or word on the fly — that's the whole skill now.
Listen
Play model exchanges from real situations and answer.
Speak
Run the mini-dialogues out loud — these are your exam rehearsals.
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PARTIE A
Tous les temps
Lesson 10.1. Match the tense to its job — passé composé for the photo, imparfait for the film, futur for the plan, conditionnel for the wish or the « if », subjonctif after que when there's doubt, will or necessity.
PARTIE B
Tout le vocabulaire
Lesson 10.2. Fluency is speed of access, not size of vocabulary. Cross from work to food to travel to feelings in one connected thought — with bridge verbs and connectors keeping the momentum.
PARTIE C
En voyage
Lesson 10.3. A trip that goes wrong: state the problem in the past, ask for a fix in the conditional, confirm the detail, thank and close — all in the register the counter calls for (vous).
PARTIE D
Au travail
Lesson 10.4. The professional register: the conditional turns orders into offers, and disagreement stays safe when you acknowledge first, then diverge — often with a hedging subjunctive (je ne suis pas sûr que ce soit…).
PARTIE E
En société
Lesson 10.5. Reading the codes: accept warmly, decline gently, know when to switch to tu, compliment with measure, and always bounce the question back — « Et toi ? ».
PARTIE F
Prêt pour l'examen
Lesson 10.6. The last reflex: an error you talk through is invisible; a silence is not. Buy time in French, go around missing words, self-correct out loud, and hold the map — flow beats perfection.