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Day One French | Beginner News-Focused French Course

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

July 24, 2026 · 7 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 6 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 6 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 6 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 6 min

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…

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

July 24, 2026 · 5 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 5 min

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…
Episode 9 — Prices are high and people have less money

July 24, 2026 · 5 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 6 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 5 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 5 min

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…
Episode 1 — The new president is 62 years old

July 23, 2026 · 6 min

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…

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About the show

French Day One is a 20-episode beginner French podcast for absolute beginners who want to understand slow French news. No prior French is needed. Visit https://linguawire.com/dayone/french for all learning materials and homework to test your knowledge. --- In five minutes a day, learn the essential French words, verbs, phrases, grammar patterns, and listening skills you need to start listening to our main podcast - LinguaWire A1 French News. In that feed, we post a new episode every day discussing the latest real news stories in simple A1 French. -- This podcast is perfect for learners who are just beginning French, learning French for the first time, starting French A1, or looking for slow, basic French lessons. -- LinguaWire podcasts use AI support, including translations and multilingual recording, under native-speaker scripting and supervision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.