
Learn to rapidly build practical French vocabulary from the ground up, focusing on the most relevant terms for beginners and busy professionals, taught by Herman.
Explore a quick French vocabulary guide for busy beginners, with 36 modules and 144 lectures, covering greetings, family, love and emotions, body terms, and practical phrases.
Learn essential French phrases for saying thank you and you're welcome, and explore facial vocabulary focusing on the forehead, eyelashes, eyebrows, eyes, and nose.
Choose this course to learn French vocabulary efficiently through short video lessons and gain confidence with exact words and phrases across more than one hundred and fifty vocabulary contexts.
Master formal French greetings by using bonjour during the day, bonsoir after sunset, and addressing others with monsieur, madame, or mademoiselle; you can add a name after bonjour for familiarity.
Explore informal French greetings through two dialogues between friends, showing an informal relationship and two levels of casual greeting and responses like how are you and I'm fine.
Learn how to answer 'comment vas-tu?' in French with common responses like I'm well, I'm doing well, not bad, not very well, so-so, and not that great.
Learn four informal French expressions to ask what's up and how it's going, used with close friends in a low-key street style, at your own risk.
Explore how informal French hinges on tu versus vous in dialogue, and how greeting with a first name signals familiarity and informal address in everyday talk.
Discover how to use formal French address with vous, monsieur, madame, and mademoiselle, contrasted with informal tu, through dialogues that illustrate polite communication.
Discover when to use vous in French: with strangers, when addressing madame or mademoiselle, with authority figures, and when showing respect to older people.
Learn four safe criteria for using 'tu' in French: address a child, address peers or same age adults, address animals or pets, and when unsure, default to 'vous'.
Master essential French expressions for taking your leave and saying goodbye, including bye-bye variations, and preview context-based forms explored in upcoming lessons.
Learn how to say 'see you soon' in French and use it when you expect to meet someone again soon, with examples of farewell usage.
Learn how the French word salut functions as both hi and goodbye, used informally with friends and relatives, and avoid using it with a boss or stranger.
Learn to say see you later in French with 'à tout à l'heure' and its colloquial abbreviated form, plus practical usage for common farewell situations.
Learn to say see you on Monday, next week, or tomorrow in French by using à plus the time marker, with clear, easy examples.
Discover three formal ways to introduce yourself in French, using bonjour, je m'appelle, or on m'appelle, with examples such as my name is Herman.
Explore four informal ways to introduce yourself in French, using phrases like hi my name is, salut, and they call me, with nickname options.
Master formal French introductions by using phrases like 'let me introduce you to' and 'pleased to meet you,' and learn how 'have you met' structures help people meet.
Learn to introduce others informally in French by using first names, phrases like 'let me introduce you to' and 'have you met,' and when to use formal forms.
Learn how French greetings differ from hugging, with cheek kissing as the norm, varying by region—three kisses in Paris, four in the north, two elsewhere—when meeting or saying goodbye.
Explore gender-based greeting norms in France: girls kiss both men and women, while men kiss women and shake hands with other men; cheek kissing is common.
Learn a few French expressions around social gestures, including how to shake hands, kiss on the cheek, hug, and say hello or goodbye.
Learn essential French expressions for welcoming someone, including how to say welcome and to welcome, with examples for home or office greetings.
Learn four key welcoming expressions in French to greet guests, invite them in, offer seating, and manage formal and informal address.
Discover how to say to congratulate in French, including the word for to congratulate and the word for congratulations, with examples like my biggest congratulations to my sister.
Learn to express happiness for others in French, including 'happy for you' and 'truly happy for someone' phrases. The lesson covers gender variations and previews how to say well done.
Learn how to say well done in French using bravo and bien joué for performances across physical, artistic, athletic, or cognitive feats.
Learn a standard French expression to congratulate a friend on a wedding or engagement, meaning all my wishes of happiness or our best wishes for your future happiness.
Master how to politely request help in French by catching attention with excuse me, using could you, and adding please (s'il vous plaît), with formal and informal examples.
Learn how to form polite formal requests in French using the three essential elements, with practical sentence examples like 'excuse me', 'can you', and 'please'.
Learn how to ask for help informally in French using the tu form, with either inversion or intonation, and optional s'il te plaît, contrasting with formal requests.
Master three ways to express gratitude in French: from merci and merci beaucoup to the formal vous form, plus a written form for very formal thanks.
Learn how to say you're welcome in French in informal and formal contexts, including 'de rien' as the common response and formal alternatives with 'vous' for different relationships.
Learn how to give well wishes in French for different times of day and weekends, including formal and informal forms for day, afternoon, evening, night, and weekend.
Learn to give well-wishes for specific life events in French using phrases such as bon voyage, bon appétit, bonne chance, and happy birthday, plus merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Come with me on a journey to quick mastery of more than 175 French vocabulary video lectures… in less than 6 hours!
Over 5,000 followers on Youtube have already provided excellent feedback on my direct teaching method of French and about 800 Facebook fans and 2,500 Yahoo Group members have trusted my online teaching platforms since 2007 to quickly boost their French skills.
Have you heard of my French vocabulary "Quick-Learning Secrets"?
For many years, I've been working hard every day online to help students acquire FASTER LEARNING SKILLS IN FRENCH and become more efficient, because it can save them a lot of time and tons of money.
French, like any other language, evolves in a context-based system. To be really good at it, a student must be able to learn the words and phrases that really matter, and ask relevant questions or give practical answers to request or give information needed. So I started to experiment with what REALLY works and develop a curriculum that will cut the learning time in more than half.
My experiments have really paid off both offline in my regular University French courses and online where thousands of French learners have entrusted me with their French studies. You can check for yourself these excellent feedbacks on my Youtube channel “Frenchtastic1" or the comments left by my own students at the RateMyProfessor web site. I am now revealing these methods here on Udemy for the first time.
A student enrolled in my French vocabulary lesson now spends ONLY 10-15 minutes or less of video learning time TO COVER A COMPLETE MODULE! That's about 1 or 2 minutes for each video tutorial, which will save you many hours or days and even weeks of study time if you were enrolled in a traditional French course.
Each one of my vocabulary lesson has been trimmed down to its core --- I only kept the most essential words and sentences you have to know to pass the introductory level.
Students enrolled in my French courses are more likely to remain (self-) engaged and have a higher word retention rate than others who go through lengthy textbooks and superfluous content material.
So, I know this quick teaching method works – especially for those who just can't afford the time and money to enroll in the *typical* costly French vocabulary classes, which, as experience has amply shown, tend to be a poor investment – (a study showed that more than 80% of regular college students taking a 4 semester French class could not use or even remember more than ¼ of what they had learned the previous months.)
Every single French word or expression which I teach in this course is easy to put into real-life situations and even easier to apply in seconds in French dialogs - That's instant satisfaction right there.
Nothing is kept secret - I reveal all I know in the simplest format possible ... and as I discover even more useful French expressions you can use (or if the students suggest new words they need to know), I will gladly add them to the course - at no extra cost to you! This is a course that will continue to grow and grow.
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What this course is not:
I do not cover “extra" items that can be complementary but non-essential to a particular module. These can be obtained in any French class you take or textbook you purchase (or I may create another course for these additional items if time and interest are shown by many students). What I present you here are concrete and practical French terms that you can use in SPECIFIC real-life situations.
I will not "look at your essay or paper" Doing this for hundreds or thousands or online students will seriously cripple my productivity and divert attention to more pressing questions other students have regarding this vocabulary course. This course teaches you to be resourceful and to have a “Less Is More" attitude when it comes to French learning. The French words and phrases presented here are the most common and practical French people themselves use in the situations portrayed in each module. It is up to you to learn how to conjugate the verbs used here and apply them in your particular sentences.
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This course is not backed or produced by Udemy - it's all my own work ... but the excellent Udemy staff are there to help you, too, of course!
But, if you want my personal "insider" information - remember I'm in the business of helping students online quickly build their French skills in no time from absolute beginners to full-fledged, accomplished learners. I dedicate almost all of my working hours doing just that and I became extremely good at it. If you want to cover quickly but extensively French vocabulary topic and save yourself the drama, money or time issues, you therefore need this course right now …right this minute
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