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French · Fluency Level 1
Leo Explains Verlan
Hear the French teenagers speak, understand four words of verlan, and learn how the French flip a word back to front.
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French · 12 levels
Fluency Level 1 Audio instruction: English 30 lessons
Five years in, Emma's French is good enough to be funny, and she applies to become French. Learn French as the French speak it: slang, irony and verlan.
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Fluency Level 2 Audio instruction: English 30 lessons
Emma helps save a class at the village school, sits her citizenship interview, and Mamie Jeanne turns ninety-five by the sea. Learn to persuade, and to hear the French of books.
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Fluency Level 3 Audio instruction: English 30 lessons
Seven years after she arrived with one suitcase, Emma becomes French and goes back to where it all began. The last level: say anything, the way the French do.
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