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Hey guys! Movies helped me a lot to improve my French. I love French movies and French cinema and now I wanna share a few of my favorite movies and must-sees with you! I hope they’ll help you!

La peau douce (a bit older, about a man who has an affair with a young girl, black&white, a bit dramatic)

La vie d’Adèle (LESBIANS!)

Sur mes lèvres (a very nice thriller about a deaf girl and a criminal)

Dans la maison (a high school student writes stories about the mother of his buddy and it escalates)

8 femmes (lesbians, bisexuals, drama, a dead man, nice clothes, takes place in the 50ies)

Swimming Pool (you see boobs sometimes, a British writer spends a few days in the South of France and writes about mysterious things that happen there)

Sagan (a biopic about Françoise Sagan, dramatic and a bit gay)

Le placard (a guy pretends to be gay so he doesn’t lose his job)

Poltergay (gay disco ghosts from the 70ies mess up a man’s life and relationship)

Une nouvelle amie (great movie about a trans woman)

Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (y’all know this one)

Belles familles (family drama about a house and feelings, a man falls for his very young step sister)

La femme d’à côté (a man discovers that his new neighbour is his ex girlfriend, a lot of amour fou, sad film, dramatic)

Le dernier Métro (a Jewish theater director hides in his theater and his wife falls for an actor, during WW2, nice clothes, 2 gay characters (not main characters but still...))

L’enfer (1994 version) (a jealous man turns his wife’s life into a real nightmare, very interesting film)

L’homme qu’on aimait trop (based on a true story, takes place in Nice, crime, mystery)

Lila dit ça (drama, 2 teenagers living in Marseille, sad love story, a bit nsfw, about a writer)

La belle saison (Lesbians in the 70ies, unshaved arm pits for the win, cute yet sad, takes place on a farm)

Rien à déclarer (a very funny film about French and Belgian ppl and stereotypes)

Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (y’all should know this one!!! a classic! watch it with French subtitles!!!!)

Persepolis (animation film, an Iranian girl tells us about her life in Iran, France and Austria, very moving, based on real events)

Les innocents aux mains sales (older movie, with Romy Schneider!! a woman kills her husband but he’s not as dead as she thinks he is)

A la folie... pas du tout! (You think this is a cute romatic lil film? you are SO wrong!!)

i’m so glad you decided to get in touch, thank you!! 

i’ve linked all resources in a small icon that looks like this: (x)

first of all i reccomend learning some french phonics and the rules of the french alphabet. learn the way each letter is pronounced - especially accents as that can really help you in spelling and pronunciation. (x) i’d reccomend, following some of the studyblrs that i’ll leave at the bottom of this post, to find some french notes in your feed - the studyblr community is so helpful when it comes to learning languages - not to mention, you’ve got the whole langblr community too! go ahead, start following some french and langblr tags!

then move on to learning basic phrases, vocab and words, so you can start forming sentences. learn words like ‘mais’, meaning ‘but’, and ‘parce que’, meaning ‘because’. for learning these basics, i reccomend looking through my pinterest board dedicated to the french language! (x)⇢ as you learn vocab, learn the gender with the word - it will help you so much in the future!

as you learn more, you’ll need to start learning about verbs, start off by learning verb endings: the -er endings, the -re endings and the -ir endings for the present tense; do the same for the other tenses. ⇢ you will find that quizlet (and the internet in general), will be your best friend for this!THERE YOU GO! YOUR FIRST RULE COPLETED :)

once you’ve learnt the basics, start learning some more rules, BUT DON’T LET THE RULES OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE SCARE YOU - admittedly they can be hard to get your head around, but they’re some of the most important things to learn - it’s the difference between someone who is grammatically correct, and someone who is not - and we all love to sound smart don’t we!

find someone to practise with, make an internet friend who studies french; one that is french, would be even better! if you’re not into making internet friends with random people, try speaking to some of the french studying studyblrs, that i’ll leave at the bottom of this post. or perhaps, just talk to me! i’ve only been learning french for two years, but i’m top of my year / grade, and i have some decent conversational skills, to say the least.

REMEMBER:⇢ do it because you love it, learn a few more phrase and vocab lists, because they interest you - it’ll become more and more motivational - trust me!⇢ get in the mood to learn french: learn about their culture, eat some of their food, listen to some of their music etc. 

AN HONORABLE MENTION:@studiyng​ wrote an amazing masterpost on how to learn a new language, which could be ever so helpful to so many people, so i’ll just leave this here! (x)

STUDYBLRS WHO STUDY AND POST FRENCH CONTENT:@getshitdonetbh​ @acadreamic​ @frenchaise​ @kaz-studies​ @in-search-of-paris​ @studyoblivion​ @thewritersblock707 @hystorically @smallstudyblrsunite @intelliqents @juliasacads @studyingsian @alistudys @womenstudy @etudiebee @cypherstudys @julesstudyblr

I saw a few masterposts like this going around in the langblr community, but some genres are left out sometimes, and also I wanted to give my own perspective on it so here’s a little list of some french artists that I like (and that sing in French) by genre, with a link to one of their songs on Youtube. I left the most famous french artists out cause I don’t want to repeat what you have already seen, some here are quite well-know, some not, and also some are pretty old but idc. And also some are nsfw, especially in the rap and punk section.

PS : Imma add a metal/hardcore section but I’m gonna ask some friends first because I personnally don’t know of any bands that sing in french in this category

indie pop/rock

Requin Chagrin

Vendredi sur Mer

Baden Baden

Éléphant

Feu! Chatterton

La Femme

Odezenne (ps : this song is totally nsfw)

Isaac Delusion

Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Merci Beaucoup

variété

(it’s what we call kind of pop or folky songs with an emphasis on lyrics)

Yépa (you’ve gotta watch this music video)

Arman Méliès

Da Silva

Laurie Darmon

Laurent Lamarca

Ridan (I linked this music video cause so french)

Clarika (my mom loves her)

Renan Luce

Autour de Lucie

Émilie Simon

punk

Justin(e)

No one is innocent

Guerilla Poubelle

Bérurier noir

Les Sheriff

pop rock

Al.Hy

Eiffel

Alcest

Dolly

Louise Attaque

Noir Désir (keep in mind : it is seen as controversial for some people in France to listen to them since the frontman killed his girlfriend by beating her up in the head (yeah...). I think liking music is detached from that, but if you don’t well I warned you)

rap

Lucio Bukowski (gosh this song has probably the meanest lyrics in all french rap but it’s soooo good)

Deen Burbigo

Virus

Damso

Fixpen Still

Luni (trap)

Columbine (I don’t really like them but lots of people do so)

other genres/miscellaneous

Odeurs (80′s upbeat synthpop)

Camille (I would say vocal pop but she has her very own style really)

Christophe (70′s psychedelic rock)

Essaie Pas (weird electro artsy shit + I think they’re french canadians)

Sylvain Chauveau (classical)

Ibrahim Maalouf (also classical/jazz)

Zoufris Maracas (”world music” I guess ? though I dislike this name of genre)

Fatals Picards (it’s parodical music with funny/ridiculous lyrics)

Hellooo :) I did a langblr masterpost before you can check it out here

Here are some active studyblrs who study german:

@languagetrash - studying German

@mikiloveslanguages - Miki, studying German B2

@talen-en-regendagen - native German speaker

@suplanguages - native German speaker

@athenastudying - Meike, native German speaker

@hstrystdyblr - Chloe, studying German

@watashiwahaksaeng - studying German

@langaesthetic - Jana, native German speaker

@byaliciagrace - Alicia, studying German

@rahaflearns - studying German

@languagemoose - Hannah, nativeGerman speaker

@love-letters-from-the-linguist - studying German

Here’s a post with all MY ressources to learn italian. Meaning there’s not everything you would need, it’s only the websites, apps, tools I use to learn. I’ll try to update often with new ressources.

Le Présent

ER         IR           RE

e            is            s

es          is            s

e            it 

ons       issons    ons

ez         issent      ent

Common Verbs, Irregulars and Stem Changers

Aller; vais, vas, vas, allons, allez, vont

Avoir; ai as a avons avez ont

Être; suis es est sommes êtes sont

Faire fais fais fait faisons faites font

e.g. I speak       Je parle

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Le Imparfait

To describe things in the past that use to happen

Use the ‘nous’ verb of the form (ons)

Remove the ons

Then add

ais ais ait ions iez aient

EXCEPTION

Être- Êt+ Etais, Etais, Etait, Etions, Etiez, Etaient

e.g I used to speak      Je parlais

Parler - Parlons - (-ons) - Parl - (+ais) - Parlais

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Le Passé Composé

To talk about things that have happened

ER  IR  RE

é      i    u

Used with the present tense of either Avoir or Être

Avoir; ai as a avons avez ont

Être; suis es est sommes êtes sont

Common Verbs, Irregulars and Stem Changers (with Avoir)

Avoir; eu

Etre; éte

Faire; Fait

e.g. I have spoken       J’ai parlé

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Le Conditionnel

to say I would

Add the following endings on the infinitive of any verb ending

ais ais ait ions                           *the same endings as in the imperfect* iez aient

Common Verbs, Irregulars and Stem Changers

Aller - Irais (not allerais)

Avoir - Aurais (not avoirais)

Être - Serais (not etreais)

Faire - ferais not faireais

e.g. I would speak

      Je parlerais

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Le  Future Simple

Use the present form of‘Aller’ followed by a verb in the infinitive

e.g. I am going to speak       Je vais parler

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Le Futur

Add the following verb endings onto the infinitive of any

ai as a ons                        *the same endings as the present tense of AR verbs* ez ent

Common Verbs, Irregulars and Stem Changers

Aller - Irai (not allerai)

Avoir - Aurai (not avoirai)

Être - Serai (not etreai)

Faire - ferai not faireai

e.g. I will speak       Je parlerai

German is my native language and I wanted to make a short list with books I enjoyed. Of course, “important”/classic or your favorite ones might be missing because I haven’t read everything and I only wanna recommend books I have read and liked. Reading is important when you learn a language, so this list might help you! Most of the books are rather “modern” ones, so if you don’t like reading older books, this list is perfect for you!

Die Häupter meiner Lieben by Ingrid Noll (crime, fun)

Die wilden Hühner (1-5) by Cornelia Funke (kids)

Die Apothekerin by Ingrid Noll (crime, fun)

Rotkäppchen muss weinen by Beate Teresa Hanika (drama)

Die Physiker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (classic)

Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (classic)

Ehrenwort by Ingrid Noll (crime, fun)

Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig (classic)

Halali by Ingrid Noll (crime)

Über Bord by Ingrid Noll (crime, fun)

Plötzlich Shakespeare by David Safier (fun)

Lila, Lila by Martin Suter (love, drama)

Das Parfüm by Patrick Süskind (classic)

Freche Mädchen, Freche Bücher by various authors (teenager)

Die Wolke by Gudrun Pausewang (drama)

Small World by Martin Suter (drama)

Hey guys! Movies helped me a lot to improve my French. I love French movies and French cinema and now I wanna share a few of my favorite movies and must-sees with you! I hope they’ll help you!

Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources (takes place in the 1930s, tragic story about 2 families, that plot twist tho) 

Naissance des pieuvres (teen love, a girl falls for another girl) 

Jeune & Jolie (nsfw, might be triggering for some people!!, a girl has sex for the first time, it’s very unpleasant and then she starts to sleep with men for money)

Le prénom (choosing the wrong name for your baby might end up like in this movie)

Tomboy (the title says everything! very good film!)

17 filles (17 high school girls decide to get pregnant at the same time)

Nathalie... (a woman wants a prostitute to sleep with her husband because she wants to find out if he’s really able to cheat on her)

La famille Bélier (lots of singing, about a girl and her family - everyone is deaf except for that girl, her dream is to sing but her family isn’t that supportive at first, also involves teen love and a latex allergy)

Respire (2 best friends who don’t stay best friends for the entire film and things escalate)

La cérémonie (lesbian vibes, a woman who doesn’t tell anyone that she cannot read and write gets into trouble, a bit bloody at the end)

L’homme de Rio (old movie, adventure and love in Rio de Janeiro, very cute main actress)

Les demoiselles de Rochefort (movie about 2 sisters, lots of singing and dancing)

Paulette (a racist granny starts to deal with drugs and turns into a nice person, awesome comedy)