Want to speak quicker French? Try something you’re already doing in English: shorten your words!

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0:00 Intro
0:44 Four shortened words
3:41 Everyday French abbreviations
6:21 Guess the shortened version
7:40 Real French conversation
12:51 Quiz

You’ll often hear me say that spoken French is almost an entirely different language than written French. But honestly, that’s not only true for French! There are certain things you do when speaking English that make it quite different from written English, or the English someone might learn in a school setting — perhaps even without realizing it!

For example, you may shorten words for convenience (or simply because it’s second nature to you). “Ad” instead of “advertisement”... “sec” instead of “second”... “pic” instead of “picture”... “info” instead of “information”... there are tons of examples.

Well, we do the exact same thing in French. Learning when and how we cut letters or shorten words is a great, underrated way to improve your fluency, so you can better understand spoken French and speak it better yourself.

Watch today’s lesson to learn more about this, so you can speed up your progress with spoken French.

Take care and stay safe.
from Grenoble, France.

Géraldine