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Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Most French courses hand you a phrase and ask you to say it back. This one hands you the pieces, tells you the rule that joins them, then waits — properly waits — while you build a sentence nobody ever taught you. No screen. Nothing to read. Nothing to look at. Just a voice in English explaining exactly how French fits together, and a French voice showing you how it sounds: once slowly, then at full speed. By the end of the first session — six and a half minutes — you say a complete French…
Episodes
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 11 — The questions you actually need
Who, when, why, how and how much — the words that turn you from somebody answering questions into somebody asking them. Nearly all of it slots into the…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 10 — Somebody who is not you
Every sentence you have built so far has been about you. Swap one word at the front and they are all about somebody else. Includes the word French actually…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 9 — Where things are
Two small phrases that between them let you hold a real exchange with a stranger: how to ask where something is, and how to answer. Plus the word for “the”…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 8 — Asking for things
Everything so far has been something you do. Now something you can want: naming words, the two little words for “a”, and the one phrase that turns a demand…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 7 — What you are going to do
The future, for free. It is a fourth opener with the same rule as the other three, and you have already said it once without knowing. Then everything from all…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 6 — Saying what you did
The past, in one move. For every verb you already own, the past sounds exactly like the form you learned — so you can already say it. You get the have part…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 5 — When, and joining it all up
The last free session, and the one where it joins up. Now, today, tomorrow, this evening and here, all of which go on the end and change nothing. Then “and”…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 4 — Asking
Two ways to turn anything you can say into a question, and the word for “you”, so you can finally talk to somebody other than yourself. The first time a word…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 3 — Saying no
How to say no. French wraps two pieces around the opener rather than dropping in one word, and once you can do it every sentence you already own flips to its…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 2 — More to put after them
Six more verbs and a third opener, so the sentences stop being a trick and start being a toolkit. Includes the one that looks exactly like an English word and…
- Cocoon French — Hands-Free
Session 1 — Your first French sentences
Where the course starts. The ending that means “to”, taught through words you can half guess already, then two openers you can park any verb behind. You finish…