Day One French | Beginner News-Focused French Course

Episode 2 — The prime minister has two children and lives in the capital

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:19:00 GMT

Episode two of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Today you learn the verb avoir (to have), the apostrophe that welds j'ai into a single sound, the family words, and yesterday's promised secret: French people don't say how old they are, they say how many years they have. J'ai trente ans, I have thirty years. Today's real news sentence: La Première ministre a deux enfants et habite dans la capitale.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/2🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 3 — The government, the police and the army are on the streets

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:00 GMT

Episode three of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. The day every French learner remembers: the words for 'the'. You'll meet le, la and les, plus l', the apostrophe French uses to smash words together, complete the verb être, learn the word aujourd'hui, and discover why the moustache is feminine. Today's sentence: Le gouvernement, la police et l'armée sont aujourd'hui dans les rues.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/3🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 4 — More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:17:00 GMT

Episode four of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. News is obsessed with counting, today you unlock the big numbers: cent, mille, dix mille. And you meet the most gloriously mad thing in the French language: there is no word for eighty. The French say quatre-vingts, four twenties, and seventy is soixante-dix, sixty-ten. Plus the two words for people and the crowd vocabulary of every protest story. Today's sentence: Plus de dix mille personnes sont à la manifestation dans la capitale.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/4🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 5 — The doctors and the teachers are on strike today

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:16:00 GMT

Episode five of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the week-one finale. Today: fifteen professions, the silent plural (ten doctors sound exactly like one, the article does all the work), the most French phrase in all of news, and your first full regular verb: travailler. Today's sentence: Les médecins et les professeurs sont en grève aujourd'hui.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/5🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 6 — The election is on Sunday and the polls are very close

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:15:00 GMT

Episode six of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Week two begins: one news domain a day, starting with the biggest, politics. Today: the election, the word-family trick (learn one root, unlock the whole family), the polls, and the day French refuses to say 'on'. Today's sentence: L'élection est dimanche et les sondages sont très serrés.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/6🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 7 — It is forty degrees in the south and there is no rain

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:14:00 GMT

Episode seven of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Every news broadcast on earth ends the same way, the weather. Today: it is forty degrees (French says 'it makes forty degrees'!), hot and cold, the four compass directions, and il y a, the three tiny words that mean 'there is' and unlock a thousand sentences. Today's sentence: Il fait quarante degrés dans le sud et il n'y a pas de pluie.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/7🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 8 — The trains are full and the airport is closed

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:13:00 GMT

Episode eight of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Transport chaos is a news perennial, today you learn the trains, the station, the airport, open and closed, plus a name-check for the TGV. And the loveliest sound-trick in French: the liaison, when a silent letter suddenly wakes up to link two words. Today's sentence: Les trains sont pleins et l'aéroport est fermé.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/8🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 9 — Prices are high and people have less money

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:12:00 GMT

Episode nine of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. The story that never leaves the front page: the cost of living. Today: prices, money, more and less, expensive and its very French opposite, the verb coûter, and the delightful fact that l'argent, the French word for money, literally means silver. Today's sentence: Les prix sont élevés et les gens ont moins d'argent.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/9🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 10 — The French national team plays tonight in front of 80,000 fans

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:11:00 GMT

Episode ten of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, you're halfway! Sport closes every bulletin: today you learn l'équipe de France, Les Bleus, to play, to win, to lose, the match and the goal, and quatre-vingt mille, the four-twenties number that terrified you in episode four, now casually decoded. Today's sentence: L'équipe de France joue ce soir devant quatre-vingt mille supporters.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/10🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 11 — The minister says: bread and milk are more expensive this year

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:10:00 GMT

Episode eleven of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Week three is the verb week, and it opens with the single most-used verb in French news: dire, to say. Plus the news colon, the breakfast table, bread, milk, water, coffee, eating and drinking, your first comparison with plus cher, and a one-line love letter to the baguette. Today's sentence: Le ministre dit : le pain et le lait sont plus chers cette année.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/11🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 12 — Thousands of people are coming to France for the festival

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:09:00 GMT

Episode twelve of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. People moving, to festivals, to borders, to safety, is half the news. Today: venir and aller, the map of the world, nationalities, des milliers de, and the quirk that French countries have genders, which is why you say en France, au Canada, aux États-Unis. Today's sentence: Des milliers de personnes viennent en France pour le festival.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/12🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 13 — The summit begins on Monday and ends on Friday

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:08:00 GMT

Episode thirteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Every news story is pinned to a date. Today: the seven days of the week, Monday is the moon's day, Tuesday belongs to Mars, plus the verbs that start and finish every event in the news, and the four diary phrases that place any story in time. Today's sentence: Le sommet commence lundi et se termine vendredi.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/13🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 14 — In the north there is no electricity and the schools are not open

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:07:00 GMT

Episode fourteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Bad news is news, and bad news is full of negatives. Today's quirk is the most French piece of grammar so far: the negation sandwich, one little word before the verb, one after, plus the great collapse that turns any noun into no-noun. And the fixed phrase you've been saying since weather day finally gets decoded. Today's sentence: Dans le nord, il n'y a pas d'électricité et les écoles ne sont pas ouvertes.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/14🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 15 — Who is the new minister and what does she want?

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:06:00 GMT

Episode fifteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the week-three finale. News exists to answer questions, so today you get the question kit: qui, que, où, quand, pourquoi, comment, plus vouloir, the verb of wanting, and the three ways French asks any question: raise your voice, bolt on est-ce que, or flip the verb like a newsreader. Today's sentence: Qui est la nouvelle ministre et que veut-elle ?▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/15🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 16 — The president said yesterday: the war is over

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:05:00 GMT

Episode sixteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Final week. News is mostly about things that already happened, so today you learn to recognise the French past: avoir plus a past participle. He HAS declared, she HAS said, one pattern moves your whole vocabulary into yesterday. Plus war and peace, the vocabulary of the biggest stories. Today's sentence: Le président a déclaré hier : la guerre est finie.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/16🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 17 — An earthquake hit the region in the night

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:04:00 GMT

Episode seventeen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. A milestone: your first full two-sentence news story, exactly as breaking news is written. Today: the earthquake, un tremblement de terre, an earth-trembling, drama built from plain words, plus the past tense going plural: one earthquake hit, many people have lost. Today's story: Un tremblement de terre a frappé la région dans la nuit. Beaucoup de gens ont perdu leur maison.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/17🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 18 — The company is going to build a new factory and create 3,000 jobs

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:03:00 GMT

Episode eighteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Yesterday the past, today the future, and in French the future is just going: aller plus a verb in its dictionary form. Plus the business kit (the company, the factory, jobs, to build, to create) and the going-verb's double life: with a place it's motion, with a verb it's the future. Today's sentence: L'entreprise va construire une nouvelle usine et créer trois mille emplois.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/18🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 19 — The prime minister in Washington

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:02:00 GMT

Episode nineteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the penultimate episode. Headlines don't speak full French; they speak telegram: the verb deleted, the heavy words left standing. Today you learn to expand them back into sentences you already know, drill three real headlines built entirely from series vocabulary, and pick up the diplomacy kit. Tomorrow: graduation, a full French news bulletin.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/19🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 20 — Graduation: your first French news bulletin

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:01:00 GMT

The Day One French finale, with Louis and Claire. Graduation day: a full French news bulletin, election, heatwave, strike, sport, built entirely from the last twenty days, read twice like real radio. Then the handover: you're ready for LinguaWire A1 Daily French News, a new episode every day, real news stories in slow, clear A1 French. Subscribe via the link in the show notes and your first real daily episode arrives tomorrow morning.▶ Practice this episode free, lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/french/20🇫🇷 More free French lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/frenchLearn French for beginners · A1 French podcast · real French news made simple.#LearnFrench #FrenchForBeginners #A1French #FrenchPodcast #LanguageLearning

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Episode 1 — The new president is 62 years old

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:20:00 GMT

Day One French takes you from absolute zero to listening to news in simple French — including our A1 news podcast, LinguaWire A1 Daily French News — in four weeks. Twenty episodes, five minutes a day, with Louis and Claire. In episode one you learn the verb être (I am, he is, she is), the word le président, the official news formula for saying someone's age — and the first great French quirk: the silent letters French writes but refuses to say. By the end you'll understand and say a real French news sentence: Le nouveau président est âgé de soixante-deux ans. Your lesson sheet (full verb table, all pronouns, numbers 0–20) and the ten-minute interactive homework are at LinguaWire.com/DayOne — link below.

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