Professional French for the Workplace (L5)

By the end

What you'll build

• Hold the professional register — vouvoiement, conditional politeness, and the formulas that signal competence
• Contribute to a meeting: give an update, interrupt politely, disagree with a superior, and ask for clarification
• Write French work email that reads as native — openings, attachments, requests and the right sign-off
• Handle customers and colleagues: apologise, push back, and say no while protecting the relationship
• Answer the standard French interview questions, including the salary and weakness questions
• Give a three-minute spoken project update and survive an unscripted workplace roleplay

Curriculum

What's inside

6 modules · 29 lessons

1. 01

   The Professional Register

   5 lessons
   • Why French Work Language Is More Formal Than Yours
   • Word Power: The Professional Coreword power
   • Formal or Too Direct?fill blank
   • Listening: The First Daylistening lab
   • Checkpoint: Registerquiz
2. 02

   Meetings

   5 lessons
   • How a French Meeting Actually Runs
   • Listening: A Project Meetinglistening lab
   • Meeting Phrases in Placefill blank
   • Speaking Lab: Give a Status Updatespeaking lab
   • Checkpoint: Meetingsquiz
3. 03

   Written French at Work

   5 lessons
   • The Anatomy of a French Work Email
   • Writing Lab: A Professional Emailwriting lab
   • Email Formulasfill blank
   • Listening: Voicemail and Replylistening lab
   • Checkpoint: Written Frenchquiz
4. 04

   Customers, Requests and Saying No

   5 lessons
   • Apologising, Refusing, Pushing Back
   • Word Power: Difficult Conversationsword power
   • Refusing and Apologisingfill blank
   • Speaking Lab: Handle an Unhappy Clientspeaking lab
   • Checkpoint: Difficult Conversationsquiz
5. 05

   Interviews and Career

   4 lessons
   • The French Job Interview
   • Interview Languagefill blank
   • Writing Lab: A Lettre de Motivationwriting lab
   • Checkpoint: Interviewsquiz
6. 06

   The Workplace Capstone

   5 lessons
   • Flashcards: The Professional Kitflashcard sr
   • Listening: The Difficult Meetinglistening lab
   • Roleplay Capstone: A Day at the Officeinterview lab
   • Final Checkpoint: Professional Frenchquiz
   • Course Review — Spaced Recallflashcard sr

The shape of it

How this course works