Workplace
French for work — the week at the desk, not another meeting drill
Work French is most of the day that is not the meeting: the Slack thread, the coffee before, the email that has to go out Thursday, the colleague who switched languages in the corridor. Meetings have their own page. This one is the rest of the job.
This is the page if
French showed up at work and you are surviving in English longer than you wanted.
- A French-speaking team, client, or office
- You can follow, then reply late or not at all
- You need the register of the job, not café French and not a phrasebook
A workplace lesson
Your documents first. You speak the line you will use. We correct. You retry.
- Live 1 on 1, 50 minutes
- Timezone-honest — say where you work
- Not a 30-person “professional French” webinar
Bring this week’s artefacts
A thread, a ticket, an email you sent in English because French felt risky. We rewrite it with you, then you say the spoken version. Vocabulary for your tools and your field — not “synergy,” not a unit called “at the office.”
Small talk is not optional
The two minutes before the call often decide whether people keep speaking French with you. We practise that: weather is allowed; so is a real sentence about the project. Stiff silence is how teams switch to English for your sake.
What sits next door
A scored interview is a different drill. A formal meeting with a deck is a different drill. Legal French is a different drill if the text is actually a contract. Say which one is this month. We will not pad the hour with all four.
Next step
Twenty-five minutes, free, then you decide.
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