Came across a reel teaching from this book, with a clickbait caption to find the free ebook in their bio, but then you don’t find it.

Selon un nouveau classement, les M&M’s sont les bonbons les plus populaires pour Halloween aux États-Unis. CandyStore a utilisé les données de ventes des 18 dernières années pour faire le classement 2026. Les Sour Patch Kids sont deuxièmes, suivis des Skittles à la troisième place. Les Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups sont quatrièmes, et les NERDS Gummy Clusters sont à la cinquième place. Le classement prend en compte les bonbons que les Américains achètent avant Halloween chaque année.

Vocabulaire : selon = according to / classement (m) = ranking / bonbons (m pl) = candy / données (f pl) = data / ventes (f pl) = sales / deuxièmes = second / suivis = followed / troisième = third / quatrièmes = fourth / cinquième = fifth / prendre en compte = to take into account / acheter = to buy

English translation

M&M’s is the number one Halloween candy

According to a new ranking, M&M’s is the most popular Halloween candy in the United States. CandyStore used sales data from the past 18 years to make the 2026 ranking. Sour Patch Kids are second, followed by Skittles in third place. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are fourth, and NERDS Gummy Clusters are in fifth place. The ranking takes into account the candy Americans buy before Halloween each year.

You can read more news stories at Le News, In Easy French

Is it correct to say

"Il est le chanteur le plus célèbre"

Today my professor said its not correct.

He said it has to be either

"Il est chanteur, il est célèbre"

Or

"C'est le chanteur le plus célèbre"

Most language-learning lists of resources are to either entry-level, or are standard/broadcast French which lends itself to the intermediate spectrum of learners.

But for those studying or striving for a C1 and C2 level, it goes beyond standard/broadcast/textbook/classroom French. It overlaps with how people speak to each other in the street, with their informal usage of language, and with how different tiers of society converse. It involves grasping jokes, degrés of irony cultural and regional irony, and clarity of vocabulary which support its grasp.

Most people find it difficult to identify digital resources which can provide such input. Alothoug movies, films, and television shows/sitcoms can be good sources help move one towards C1/C2 levels, they are often too rigid or choreographed to offer the same colloquial level and spontaneous manner of speech that reflects how people really talk to each other off screen.

Below is a list of links I put together which offer the normal day-to-day style speaking that isnt taught in classes, and that is of a level that help support C1/C2 Canadian/Québec language acquisition. It’s mostly comprised of REELs, because they often are some of the best reflections of how people speak in real life, both in terms of vocabulary, and style.

This list can help transform your algorithm to so you’re blast you with mega-input content to work towards getting you towards, and honing your C1/C2.

Bonne chance !

Listen to as much media as you can. There are two types of media… 1. broacast media (standard international broadcast French, like Radio-Canada), and 2. common speech (colloquial French).

People the phone talk like the latter, not like the former. Broadcast French is good to an extent, but don’t just rely on that. You’ll need lots of other input to get better with colloquial French.

For standard, international French spoken everywhere in the world (in Canadian/Quebec accents of course):

• Hundreds of podcasts from Radio-Canada OHdio: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio

• Live Radio (ICI Radio-Canada Première): https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere (And if you’re driving across Canada, you can click through the various city versions as you drive through them in all provinces)

• QUB Talk Radio: https://www.qub.ca/emissions - hundreds of past shows. It’s a less formal than Radio-Canada level French, but is still a step above street-talk level French.

• And if you want accent listen exercises, explained in slower in standard French that you can repeat to work your accent, this guy has your reels.

For street-level Canadian French (colloquial / registre vulgar French), how people talk in their daily lives and in their homes:

• Talk Radio - https://radiox.com/# (click through the émissions heading to access many weeks worth of archived shows). This is a politically conservative radio station, and some shows can get political, like Maurais Live, which are not to everyone’s liking. But many others, like the Spacecast, le sexploratrice, le show du weekend, Le last call, etc are non-political and are just chat. However, it is common-man/woman, often crude street-level French. It’s one of the rare sources of 24hr daily new content from Monday-Friday (weekends are music), with how the masses speak every day.

  • You can watch many of their shows on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@radioxquebec
  • Daily highlight segments of the show, Ouillet en direct: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1cEmQ7iMy2/
  • Daily highlight segments of the call-in nighttime show, Last call. Let’s just say it doesn’t attract the brightest callers, but can sometimes be worth a dumb laugh: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19huYRaPUt/

• Here are segments from Canada’s most-watches Television program. Tout le monde en parle, with 1.5 million viewers when it broadcasts every Sunday evening. It covers the most talked about events and goings-on of the week: https://www.facebook.com/ToutlemondeenparleRC/reels/

• If you like over a hundred prank calls on the radio that will leave you in tears, Radio Énergie is a radio station that pranks the public live on air. You can access many of them here: https://www.facebook.com/MarioTessierOfficiel. My favorites are the kinds like this, like this, and like this. I’ve spent hours listening to them, p#ssing my pants in my car, or walking around wearing earbuds while looking like a crazy man laughing to myself.

  The comedian radio hosts pose as fake customer service reps, and so many of the things brought up will be as they’re said in customer service calls.

• If you like fishing, check out the reels by l’ADN du pécheur: https://www.facebook.com/DNdupecheur/reels/

  • and here’s another guy’s fishing reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19UhNejP1r/

• if you like cars, and working on cars, who moonlights as a liquidator, check out the reels by Mechanic Guillaume Loiselle: https://www.facebook.com/guillaume.loiselle.2025/reels/

  • and here’s another mechanic’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14vLD9B5QbX/

• If you like working out/nutrician:

  • check out this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.gariepy.2025/reels/
  • and here’s another guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1UKEd7E6kj/
  • and another’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DZVEjVEoi/
  • and another’s (this guy breaks down nutrician into nutrician 101 for dummies): https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CQxHDoSix/
  • and another’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19shtUDqRF/
  • and a trainer/bodybuilders’s / father’s / businessman’s reels from a guy who moved to Edmonton: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EBxuveBHk/
  • and another trainer’s videos: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FugwDSLAM/
  • and another’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GxJavMth6/

• If you like business and want to listen to a business influencer talk about all sorts of things, check out this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/mike.nhmaisonneuve/reels/. And here’s the same guy, but through his company’s official corporate reels: https://www.facebook.com/belleflamme.ca/reels/

• And in other related business themes:

  • a landscaping company’s guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1F3Fn6hHgZ/
  • and another landscaper’s reels: (his personal reels - https://www.facebook.com/vincent.picard3/reels/), (and his Professional reels - https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19ouPhaqov/),
  • a guys on client/customer building: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EZZ5RshEz/
  • This guy has reels on leveling-up business through scaling and marketing: https://www.facebook.com/hackmancharles11/reels/
  • A construction company/contractor’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1KUzpjyhsc/

• If you like agriculture, and want to listen to a farmer/rural-like talk about his daily stuff, here’s a young farmer’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/alexandre.bisaillon.5/reels/

• If you like politics, and want something that’s middle ground (centre), this young guy has hundreds(?) of reels that break complex political subjects down into simple explanations (Note, he recently put his name in to run for political office at the provincial level): https://www.facebook.com/FarnellMorisset/reels/

• If you want a life-hacks tips and tricks guy, this is your man: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FhST5LXNV/?mibextid=wwXIfr

• If you want to learn about blacksmithing and hear a guy talk about it, this guy has lots of cool reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/1HMxeobKai/?mibextid=wwXIfr

• If you want an Eastern Ontario French accent, you’ll get it from this renovation guy from Embrun, east of Ottawa.

• If you want an accent from the north coast, you’ll get it with this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FV9ftZyim/?mibextid=wwXIfr

• If you want a Brayon accent from Northwest New Brunswick (from Edmundston, which is different from Acadian accents, found in Eastern/Southern New Brunswick and elsewhere in the Atlantic provinces), then she’s your point person. She’s a beauty-product seller, so often talk about beauty products, and just a mish-mash of other stuff: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19YRAkQmhx/

  • and here’s another Brayon accent, again from the Edmundston area, a dad who just blah blah’s about anything: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CBvSnYcip/

• If you want to listen to a young guy just blah blah’ing about his life (relationships, other people, losing weight, work, etc), you can listen to this guy’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/frank.perron.207544/reels/. He speaks with a very colloqual register from St-Hyacinthe.

• if you want to hear a guy who clears snow and does road maintenance for a living, just blah blah’ing about everything, check his reels: https://www.facebook.com/LeGroupeDumar/reels/

  • and here’s another guy who just blah blah’s: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BisVzVZ2b/

• If you want to hear opinionated rants in a hard-core back-woods accent from the Beauce (in which f’s, ch’s, sh’s, j’s, and g’s are pronounced with an “H”), you can listen to this anti-union anti-woke super-conservative construction worker’s reels: https://www.facebook.com/Jocleconstruction/reels/

• If you ever wondered what C3 French humour would ever sound like, if such a thing ever existed, check out this normal guy’s endless combo of dad jokes and politically incorrect jokes (on his autobody shop’s Facebook page): https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1E2RxJzh1G/

• If you want to learn about nature’s going’s-on in forests, she’s your person: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DF2ij8r9Y/

• If you want reels in Chiac (accent / Frenglish-like French), from Southwest New Brunswick around Moncton, this is your guy: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CRY1i1DgY/

• A comedian’s reels that he just creates as he’s out and about doing things: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19vUNFLpch/

• Here’s a life coach / business motivator: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1J8kVWsKjF/

Anyway, this gives you many thousands of hours of content to choose from, and that you can stream while doing your drive, laundry, shopping, cooking, etc. Hopefully this helps in your language learning journey :)

I fear this may be too niche. But I've seen it too many times for it to not be a coincidence. Theres a comedy/lifestyle/ pop culture podcast i listen to called "Le Pigeonnier", where they coo at the beginning of the podcast. Theres also this parisian fashion guy on insta who organizes community free for all fashion watch partys who dressed up as a pigeon to attend shows. There seems to be this shared theme of like representing ordinary people between the two - do pigeons represent this in paris? I guess because pigeons are mass flocks and everywhere in paris they might symbolize the public/common people in some way .. (?) I swear Ive seen graffiti of pigeons in the recent student protests too but I mightve hallucinated that. PLEASE if someone knows the answer lmk 😭

Okay, what did I do right and wrong here?( been practicing regularly, and I am on lesson 47 out of 90 in a class called the fluency factory) 🍒🍎

I'm lower intermediate in Spanish but my vocabulary is pretty solid (I can listen to and understand native content with some effort). I know a lot of which gender nouns are intuitively e.g. endings that are ción are feminine. I wondered how easy it would be, other than the general rule and exceptions, for me to kind of guess accurately in French based upon this knowledge? Are French endings that have the 'ion' principle also feminine? Or is there basically no correlation, and this is a risky method?

I'll try and learn it all in its own right anyway because I can usually remember these things fairly well. But I wondered if Spanish would be a help or mostly a hindrance that will interfere with learning this. Merci!

My kids are in a magnet school that teaches foreign language starting in kindergarten, mine was assigned French (there are four language options). Because it has to cover K-8, they use Rosetta Stone for an easy-to-track homework option, but it's not a developmentally good match for 5 to 8-year-olds (they are aware, there just aren't a lot of options that also give the teacher a report on their minutes). Unsurprisingly, getting my 7yo to sit through RS is like pulling teeth. I'd love to find some programs geared toward younger kids that are more fun so she continues to enjoy learning French. She still has to do her homework, but it's nice to have an alternative on other days.

And just to brag about her amazing school, I learned this morning that they had two kids who just completed 6th grade last year who were transferring to a selective enrollment middle school for 7th grade, so they needed to test their French to place them. One tested into the 11th grade French and the other was placed directly into AP French. At 12! They get an hour a day in language, it's not immersion, so that seems amazing to me.

Obviously, the program is working, I just want my kiddo to keep enjoying the process in these early stages.

Hi, I am making a goodbye/encouragement card for a mint themed gift bag. The recipient does not speak French, but has enthusiastically supported me and listened patiently as I have learned, and also fumbled the language for nearly two years. I Googled, but I can’t find a decent translation for Encourage “mint” as a pun. I’m getting lots of mint translations, but I was hoping for a one word blend as it would be in English-Encouragemint. Doesn’t need to follow grammatical rules, just simple and fun. Thoughts, ideas?
Edit: Could also be along the lines of a little encouragemint as you begin something new.

So i am beggining my french journey and i have finished a1 grammar and i can also use it but the main difficulty for me is listening. i can listen to alice ayel and understand her but whenever i try to watch other videos then i just cant get the meaning of the sentence even if i understand individual words please help me with tips

Salut !

Je suis Français et avec un ami, on aimerait réunir des apprenants pour parler français, s’entraider et progresser ensemble dans une ambiance sympa.

Demain, vendredi, on commence avec des jeux en vocal, histoire de parler un peu et faire connaissance en s’amusant.

On proposera aussi d’autres activités et ateliers pour pratiquer ensemble.

Ça tente qui ?

Soo hi, I am looking for more an accountability partner who is also learning French (A1).

My goal is to write the TCF exam by mid next year.
I have not gone that far yet, but I am a fast learner and I feel it would be a great opportunity to bond and build with a fellow learner like me.

Soo incase you are also in need for an accountability partner who ready to build their French vocabulary . I’ll be available!!

Thank you.

Hey guys, I’m a French beginner. Chinese is my mother tongue, and English is my second language.
However, as a Chinese student, I don’t think the educational system of learning English during my school years is reasonable.
But when I taught myself, I always unconsciously imitate the way of learning English.
What I did most was just memorizing words and their Chinese meanings. Therefore, I find it hard to think in foreign language when I’m learning that one. I always translate sentences into Chinese first, think about my answer in Chinese, and then translate it back into another language to express what I want to say.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

j'aurai une DELF B2 par ce Novembre, cependant mon Écrit capacité n'est pas encore parfait ou prêt pour PE avec 250 mots minimum parce que je suis entrain d'en face au problème quand developper une idée ou paragraphe. je suis à court d'idées

Salut, un peu un question bête mais j'ai un peu mal à gorge, qui me fait du mal quand j'avale, mais en gros ce n'est pas grand chose. Pourtant, ce n'est vraiment pas confortable de dire les "r"s en français. Surtout pour les natifs, vous notez ça ?

Hey I want a friend that can practice french speaking with me. My level is around A2-B1. I have various interest on which we can talk about like anime, movies, series, etc

I’d like to get a tattoo in French. Any recommendations of your favourite French phrases would be appreciated <3

Preferences
\- I wouldn’t like it to be too small or too long. I’d rather an average sentence. The placement would probably be on my ribs or under the chest
\- Extra points if it’s a phrase from a book or poem
\- I wouldn’t like it to be too cheesy or too corny or like these inspirational posts of boomers on fb. I’m not a particularly happy person either so I probably wouldn’t like something too hopeful

Thanks !!