French for the life you live in Québec
The SAAQ counter. The Hydro-Québec phone line. Your child's teacher. The lease. The letter you carried around all week. 162 real conversations, rehearsed out loud before they count.
The conversations nobody teaches
The counter where they hold the power
The SAAQ at month five of the six-month rule: originals not copies, a certified translation, the counter that says « vous » in a province that says « tu » — and a precise list to leave with, every time.
The phone, with nothing to point at
Hydro-Québec, by voice alone: your name spelled down the line, the first winter bill that triples, the payment arrangement you negotiate yourself — and confirmation numbers that only exist if you said them back.
Your child's school — you're the parent
The bulletin decoded page by page, the orthopédagogue explained before the word can scare you, the sortie scolaire form you sign knowing what you signed — and the hard meeting you asked for, held without backing down.
The lease
From the viewing to the bail: what's included, what heating costs in January, the deposit rules — a six-mission housing arc with Lorraine, the landlady who respects tenants who ask.
Getting INTO French class — in French
Registering for francisation is itself a French conversation: full-time or part-time, the allocation nobody told you about, and the government letter you finally read to the end.
The French no textbook mentions
« Tu veux-tu un café ? » The double-tu, the dépanneur, pantoute, c'est correct — the living Québécois of the café and the corner store, from locals who never slow into teacher-voice.
- 162 conversations in French
- 67 of them in Québec City
- First words to full stories — A1 to C1
- 🇨🇦 Québec
- 🇫🇷 Paris
The whole map of a life here
Not a vocabulary list — places, with a local behind every counter. Every realm below is missions you can walk into today.
- 🏛️ Government counters
- 📞 Phone calls
- 🏫 Your child's school
- 🏠 Housing & the lease
- 🍽️ Cafés & brasseries
- 🏪 The dépanneur
- 📮 The post office
- 🔧 The garage
- 🏥 Clinic & pharmacy
- 🚇 Métro & taxis
- ✈️ The airport
- 💼 The job interview
- 🛍️ Shops & markets
- 💈 Haircuts
- 🏨 Hotels
- 🎟️ Tours & days out
Type what you need — « school », « licence », « heating » — and land in the scene that teaches it.
It meets you where your French is
Every scene has rungs from first words to full stories. The same counter that asks five words of a beginner asks a negotiation of you a year later.
The conversation that never switches to English
In the real Québec, one hesitation and the whole conversation flips to English — and your French never gets its turn. Here, it can't happen.
Coaching in your language
The conversation is in French. The help — hints, corrections, what that word meant — arrives in yours.
- Kreyòl ayisyen 🔊
- Español
- العربية
- Українська
- English
- 中文
- Português
- हिन्दी
- and more
The locals who will teach you
Not tutors — AI locals with jobs, counters, opinions and nineteen years at the same wicket. They tutoie you at the café, vouvoie you at the counter, and never, ever switch to English.
Salut ! Tu veux-tu une table ?
Tu veux-tu un sac ?
Your French life in Québec starts out loud.
Practise the SAAQ before the SAAQ, the teacher before the teacher, the phone before the phone. Free to start — no card, just your voice.
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