Welcome! I'm so excited to help you start your French journey. To make sure we tailor this session perfectly to you, let's start with a quick question.

What is your current experience level with French, and what is your main goal for learning it?

That's fantastic! Knowing even a few words is a wonderful head start, and wanting to chat with family and friends is the absolute best motivation to keep things practical and fun.

To kick off your journey, we have designed a customized learning path. We will start with daily greetings and courtesy, move into basic sentence structures, practice essential verbs, expand your vocabulary, and wrap up with conversational rules so you can speak confidently with your loved ones.

Let's dive right into our first milestone: French Greetings and Essential Courtesy.

In France and French-speaking cultures, greeting someone isn't just polite; it's practically a sacred social contract. Walking into a bakery or greeting a family member without a warm greeting is considered a major faux pas. Let's start with the absolute classic that you might already know: bonjour.

You can use bonjour all day long. But once the sun starts setting (usually around 6:00 PM), French speakers naturally switch to another beautiful word: bonsoir.

Now, because you are learning this to talk to family and friends, you'll love this next one. When you are in casual settings with people you know well, you can skip the formal greetings and use salut.

Think of salut as the perfect casual 'hey' to use with close cousins, friends, or young children. An extra perk: you can also use it to say 'bye' when you leave!

Ready to see how these feel in a real scenario?

I would love to! Practicing what you've just learned is the absolute best way to make it stick before you try it out on your family and friends.

I've put together a quick, practical worksheet for you to test your memory on bonjour, bonsoir, and salut.

Give it a go, and let me know how you do!