Personal information: name, age, family, where you live

Your own life, in French. Everything this week should be true about you.

Colours live this week

6 of 10 in play

Noun

A thing, a person or a place.

Verb

An action or a state — what is happening.

Pronoun

Stands in for a noun — I, you, he, it.

Articlenew

the / a / some — and possessives like mon, ma.

Prepositionnew

Links words together — to, in, of, for.

Fixed chunk

Learn it whole. Do not take it apart.

Articles join as grey, carrying gender through bold and slanted. Conjunctions like et arrive in Week 4 and stay plain for now.

Je m'appelle…My name is…
Je m'appelle David.My name is David.
J'habite à / en…I live in…
J'habite à Wateringbury.I live in Wateringbury.
à before a town, en before many countries — en France.
J'ai … ans.I am … years old.
J'ai soixante ans.I am sixty years old.
Literally: I have sixty years.
un filsa son
J'ai un fils.I have a son.
say: fiss — the l is silent
une fillea daughter / a girl
J'ai deux filles.I have two daughters.
un maria husband
Mon mari s'appelle…My husband is called…
une femmea wife / a woman
One word does both jobs — context decides.
un petit-filsa grandson
un petit-enfant is a grandchild of either sort.
une petite-fillea granddaughter
la famillethe family
Ma famille…My family…
Feminine — la, and ma rather than mon.
un ami / une amiea friend (m / f)
C'est un ami.That's a friend.
Add -e for a female friend. It sounds the same.
le travailwork / job
Je travaille à la maison.I work at home.
à la retraiteretired
Je suis à la retraite.I am retired.
Worth having ready — it comes up constantly.

1
Je m'appelle name, j'habite à place.
I'm ___, I live in ___.
2
J'ai number ans et je suis à la retraite.
I'm ___ and I'm retired.
3
J'ai un fils / deux filles et number petits-enfants.
I have ___ and ___ grandchildren.

Listening this week

YouTube

Clear, warm, repeat-after-me pacing. Well suited if you want thinking time between phrases.