About Day One French | Beginner News-Focused French Course
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.
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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.
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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.
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LinguaWire podcasts use AI support, including translations and multilingual recording, under native-speaker scripting and supervision.
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Episode 2 — The prime minister has two children and lives in the capital
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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24 Jul 2026
Episode 3 — The government, the police and the army are on the streets
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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24 Jul 2026
Episode 4 — More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration
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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