Practise speaking French out loud
Free French conversation practice with an AI partner that responds to what you actually say. No subscription, no paywall, and no payment details.
Ordering at a café, start to finish
A real conversation in the app: order a coffee, ask for something to eat, request the bill. The objectives tick off as you say them.
Turn sound on to hear it.
The bit that trips people up: what you read is not what you hear
French spelling and French speech agreed to disagree centuries ago. Endings vanish, words run together through liaison, and there are nasal vowels English simply does not have. This is why so many learners can read a French menu and understand nothing when a waiter reads it aloud. The fix is ear and mouth, not more vocabulary.
Conversations you can practise in French
- Ordering in a restaurant where the waiter switches to English
- Buying a train ticket and asking which platform
- Asking for a specific cut at a boulangerie or boucherie
- Apologising for your French without stopping the conversation
- Making small talk with a neighbour
Not on the list? Describe the situation and ConvoLive builds it.
Situations
Three phrases worth being able to say
Every learner needs these before they need anything clever.
- On peut continuer en français ?
- Can we keep going in French?
- Je ne suis pas sûr de comprendre
- I'm not sure I understand
- Vous pouvez parler plus lentement ?
- Could you speak more slowly?
French questions people ask
- Will ConvoLive help with my French pronunciation?
- It gives you the two things pronunciation needs: a model to imitate at whatever pace you want, and the chance to say it back repeatedly with nobody waiting on you.
- How do I stop French people switching to English?
- Usually by answering fast enough that switching is not worth it. That is a fluency-under-pressure problem, and it responds to rehearsing the specific exchanges you keep losing.
French speaking exams
The topic changes every time and the format never does, which is what makes these the most rehearsable thing in language learning.