Learning path
Culture and media
French beyond France, humour and wordplay, literary tenses and fast radio and podcasts, through real tasks.
4 lessons, about 45 minutes in all. Take them in order.
This district opens when you clear French at work. You can still explore it, or beat its boss below to clear it now.
- Mission: reply to a Montréal colleague and a Brussels client, and brief your team lead 13 min
Varieties of French. Read what a Québécois colleague and a Belgian client really mean, then write to each in the right French and give your lead a short glossary.
- Mission: explain three jokes to a new colleague and write a punning headline for the staff newsletter 11 min
Humour and wordplay. Read what a pun or an ironic line really says, explain it clearly, then write a clean one of your own.
- Mission: put a classic-style passage into modern French and explain one sentence for your reading club 11 min
Literary tenses. Read the imperfect subjunctive, the pluperfect subjunctive and the passé antérieur, and keep what they say when you retell the passage in modern French.
- Mission: turn a fast radio extract into a note for your team 10 min
Listening to natural speech. Rebuild the written meaning of a fast, mixed-accent radio extract, with its regional words, its pun and its literary quotation, and say what you could not hear.
Boss challenge
12 mixed questions from this district's lessons. Score 80% or more to clear it and open Exam level. No timer: take your time, and try as often as you like.