Learn French:

Basic French Lessons For Beginners

Welcome to LearnFrenchVideo.com! My name is David. On this site learning how to speak the French language is fast, fun and easy with video and audio podcast lessons. This is a course where beginners can learn French online with tutorials covering basic vocabulary words, grammar rules, phrases, verbs and conjugations tables, numbers, pronunciation and songs, basic conversations and much more! Start exploring my site and enjoy! A great place to start is my French lessons overview page. You can also read my tips for learning French!


Phrases, Greetings & Expressions

Here you will learn a wide variety of basic phrases and expressions which you can use in everyday life while speaking the French language. I’ll teach you how to greet people, ask people basic questions about themselves, about language difficulties and basic phrases of politeness.

How To Say Hello How To Say How Are You
Nice To Meet You What Is Your Name?
Excuse Me And Sorry Please And Thank You
Goodbye - Au Revoir How Are You
Telling Time Language Difficulties
Love And Romance Common Phrases And Expressions
Do You Speak English? Conversation Dialogues: Greetings
Pick-Up Lines Emergency Phrases
Dates in French - Telling the Date Daily Routine
Classroom Phrases Telephone Phrases

French Vocabulary Lists

In this section of the website I will teach you vocab words that are important to know. You can learn the words for food, clothing, sports, hobbies, the days of the week, months of the year, animals, shapes, feelings, counting, members of the family, weather, shopping and much more!

French Numbers - Les Chiffres Je T'aime - I Love You
Food - La Nourriture Fruit - Les Fruits
Family Members - Les Membres de la Famille Animals - Les Animaux
Clothing _ Les Vêtements Body Parts - Le Corps Humain
Colors - Les Couleurs Feelings And Emotions - Les Sentiments
Countries - Les Pays Restaurant Vocabulary - Vocabulaire Restaurant
Nature - La Nature Cheers - Santé!
Shapes - Les Formes Sports - Le Sport
Weather - Le Temps / La Météo Jobs And Professions - Les Professions
Days of the Week - Les Jours de la Semaine Months of the Year Les Mois de l'Année
Asking Directions - Demander Les Directions Hobbies - Les Loisirs
Hungry And Thirsty - Avoir Faim / Avoir Soif Time Words - Vocabulaire Pour le Temps
To Be Right - Avoir Raison To Need - Avoir Besoin
You're Welcome - De Rien To Kiss - La Bise
To Be Lazy - Paresseux Okay - D'accord
Really - Ah Bon vs. Vraiment Nationalities
Furniture - Les Meubles Wine - Le Vin
Christmas - Noël Rooms in the House
School Subjects Health & Illnesses
Desserts - Les Desserts Music - La Musique
Banking - La Banque Bathroom - La Salle de Bains
Kitchen - La Cuisine Education - l'Éducation
Musical Instruments -Les Instruments de Musique Jewelry - Les Bijoux
Makeup - Le Maquillage Car - La Voiture
Baby - Le Bébé Seasons - Les Saisons
Happy Birthday - Joyeux Anniversaire Where - Où
Ordinal Numbers - les nombres ordinaux Valentine's Day - Le Saint Valentin
Personality Vocabulary

French Grammar

French grammar is often very challenging for non-native speakers. Here you will learn all the important basic grammar rules including definite and indefinite articles, personal pronouns, possessives, prepositions, demonstratives, negation, basic sentence structure and much more.

French Grammar Overview Sentence Structure / Word Order
Definite Articles Indefinite Articles
Personal Pronouns Negatons - Ne + Pas
Adverbs Demonstratives
Possessive Pronouns Prepositions
Question Words To Be Doing Something - En Train De
I Just - Je Viens De Ago - Il Y A
Since - Depuis To Want - Avoir Envie De

Audio Lessons

One of the best ways to learn French is by listening to audio lessons. The lessons in this section cover basic vocab words, phrases, the alphabet, numbers, verb conjugations and travel. Just click on any of the words in the lessons and you can listen to an MP3 file. NOTE: Make sure that the pages are completely finished loading in your browser for the audio to work.

Essential Vocabulary Salutations And Greetings
Alphabet - L'alphabet How To Count
Love Phrases Travel Phrases
Verb Conjugations

French Songs

One of the easiest and fastest ways to learn new languages is to use songs and music. Indeed, by using a melody or be you will be more likely to memorize what you’re trying to learn much faster. When we were children this is how he learned in school and we can continue to learn this way as adults. I have gone through several YouTube videos which I believe to be very helpful and informative for my students and will post them here. I am not much of a singer myself and I do not want to make you go away from my website and my unattractive singing voice. So, there are many other people online who do great job by teaching with songs you can follow them here!

French Alphabet Song French Days of the Week Song
French Happy Birthday Song Mrs. Vandertramp Verbs Song
Frère Jacques Lyrics La Vie en Rose
French Christmas Song - Petit Papa Noël Kids French Song - Bonjour Monsieur, Bonjour Madam
New Years Song French Colors Song
French Numbers Song

 

French Verbs + Conjugations

For many people one of the most challenging things about learning French is the verb conjugations. Indeed, there are many ways to conjugate the verbs. However, there are many patterns which you will see it make it much easier. There are three kinds of regular verbs: firms that end in ER, IR and RE. You’ll find that these all follow the same conjugation patterns. There are also a number of irregular verbs. These have different conjugation patterns that are equally important to learn.

French Verb Conjugation Tables With Audio French Verb Conjugation Guide
Regular ER Verbs Regular IR Verbs
Regular RE Verbs Verbs Using Être In The Past Tense
Past Tense - Irregular Verbs Future Tense - Le Future
Conditional Tense - Le Conditionel Imperfect Tense - L'imparfait
Subjunctive Mood - Le Subjonctif Être - To Be
Aller - To Go Avoir - To Have
Venir - To Come Faire - To Make or Do
Savor - To Know Vouloir - To Want
Prendre - To Take Devoir - Must
Essayer - To Try Reflexive Verbs
S'asseoir - To Sit Se Cacher - To Hide
Se Rendre Compte - To Realize Je Vais - I'm Going To