Speak French fluently: free and fun way to learn how to count in French. Look, listen and repeat to learn French numbers pronunciation.
Numbers 1 to 10 in French
Learn French numbers from 0 to 10 in the video below.
French numbers up to 100
The best way to learn French is only learning the numbers from 0 to 10 in one day or week if you only have little time daily to learn French at home.
Learning French numbers should be done in stages, as counting in French is a bit odd.
French language schools will give you a list of all French number to memorize. Unfortunately, your memory will get stuck pretty fast when you need to learn French words without any context. Praise yourself once your learned how to count in French from 0 to 10 and stop there!
If you want to say and speak French numbers to 100 or to any amount, just read each French number separately. That explains why we added 0 to the list of French numbers 1 to 10.
Learning French numbers : Words sound different than how they are written
You will notice that only now we will show you the French spelling of the French numbers. This is because you will notice that not all written letters in the French language are pronounced:
How to count in French from 0 to 10 :
zéro = 0
un = 1
deux = 2
trois = 3
quatre = 4
cinq = 5
six = 6
sept = 7
huit = 8
neuf = 9
dix = 10
Written letters you don’t pronounce:
de ‘x’ in the number dix is pronounced as an ‘s’ and you won’t hear it at all in the French number deux
you don’t hear the ‘p’ in the French number sept
you don’t pronounce the ‘s’ in the French number trois
Why do the French write letters they don’t pronounce?
Because French spelling still looks like how it was around the 1600’s. However French pronunciation has evolved since, especially more letters have been "swallowed" but still need to be written.
That’s why you best learn how to speak French by first listening and repeating the French words, before you go into the spelling. This method will ensure you to learn French quickly, more quickly than starting to learn French based on a textbook.
Today in your online French course you learned how to count to 10 in French. You will learn all French numbers in our future free French courses.
People will always write down French numbers on your bill, on a price tag, so we cover more French numbers in our future French language lessons about going to the restaurant and going shopping.
Polite: Bonjour. Comment allez-vous? Goodday/hello, how are you?
Casual: Salut. Comment vas-tu? Hi, how are you?
Pas mal. Not bad.
Learn how to speak French by simply listening and repeating the above French words as good as you can.
Casual hi, how are you in French.
In this online French class you will learn the difference between the formal and casual French language.
When talking to friends or family, the French say: Comment vas-tu? These French words literary translate to English as:
comment : how
vas : you go (casual)
tu : you (casual)
When the French become more formal and start talking to people they respect or meet for the first time, the French say Comment allez-vous? These French words literary translate to English as:
When talking to friends or family, the French say: Comment vas-tu? These French words literary translate to English as:
comment : how
allez : you go (formal)
vous : you formal)
Casual ‘tu’ – formal ‘vous’
The French have 2 ways of translating the word "you":
When talking to friends, they will use tu when they want to point to one person.
When talking to people they never saw before or in any case they want to point to more than one person, they will use vous.
French language courses will give you an extensive list when to use ‘tu‘
or ‘vous‘ but:
Rule of thumb: always use vous!
The first time you meet a French person, he will address you with "vous". When you get to know each other better (after a few bottles of French wine or after a few days interacting with each other on a more personal level), suddenly the French person will start using "tu".
Once that happens, you can safely start using "tu" as well. As usual follow the golden rules:
Look and listen how in the video French friends say hello how are you in French:
Hello, how are you : Salut, ça va?
"Fine" : Ça va.
Listen and look for the basics in any conversation
There are 2 ways learning how to speak French:
learn to speak French only using your memory to learn French words and phrases
learn to speak French using your whole body: your eyes, ears, imagination and gut feeling!
Even when you don’t understand any French words, or you switch off the volume of the above French video:
your gut feeling tells you that these French people are greeting each other
your imagination tells you that they are most likely asking how are you, and you, and what do we do next?
When you want to learn French fast: your imagination is your best friend. Both when it comes to learning French online, offline and especially when you follow French language courses in France:
although languages use different words,
people do communicate the same things over and over!
In most situations:
you will be able to imagine and guess what the other person is saying, and
your guessing will improve once you learn to recognise some basic French words.
Look back at the French greetings video above. Knowing that ça va literary means: it goes, try to figure out what the girl called Charlotte at the end is saying to the guys?
without understanding any words, you see that they are all leaving together…
when you did understand the girl saying "On y va?", you recognized the word va, which means ‘go’
so what do you guess she said? Right, Charlotte said: "Let’s go!".
Better than French language courses in France
Yabla French provides a great way to practice your guessing and listening skills.
In stead of following French language courses in France where people speak and speak and speak, Yabla French offers you French videos from native French people with a "guess the missing word game"
All you need to do is look at the French video, listen to the French words and guess the missing French word. It’s a great way to improve your guessing skills and trust me: no other French course will teach you the importance of guessing.
Before reading the French words below, your best way to learn the French language is watch the French video again and guess what they are trying to say.
Improving your guessing skills by watching peoples body language increases understanding the French words for 90%!
Salut! Ça va? (Hi! It goes?, meaning ‘How are you?’)
Ça va. Et toi? (It goes, meaning: ‘fine’. And you)
Ça va. (I’m fine)
Ça va?
Ça va. Et toi?
Salut!
Salut Charlotte!Ça va?
Ça va bien et toi? (I’m very well and you?, bien means well)
Très bien… (very well, très means very) Salut Miloud …Ça va?
Ça va. Et toi?
Très bien. On y va? (Shall we go?, literary translated: one there go?)
D’accord. (OK.)
If you want to remember anything from today’s French lesson is that you need to improve your imagination and guessing skill in order to learn French quick. You will learn how to speak French much quicker than when you only would rely on reading words in French language courses.
French kissing
Again, people all over the world want to express the same things but do it in different ways.
In Rome, do what the Romans do. In France, do what the French do. When it comes to French greetings, the French tend to kiss each other twice (one left, one right). If you don’t want to ruin a French girl’s make-up, do kiss the air left and right!
La bise, translated to ‘the kiss’, is the usual way French friends greet each other. When you visit France and get to know French people better, they could ask: on se fait la bise? Shall we kiss?
Again, listen for the basic word "bise", and you will know what they are trying to say or do 🙂
If you are not fond about giving and receiving kisses, you can equally well shake hands in France. Just be prepared for la bise when you decide to study French in France :-).
French greeting tips
The easiest way to greet anybody in France is starting out with a simple ‘Bonjour‘ which translates to "GoodDay" (listen to the French audio for Bonjour at our previous online French course: How to say hello in French)
Even when entering a waiting room or boarding a bus, the French will mutter bonjour as a general greeting to everyone within earshot.
How are you in French summarized
I can hear you saying: ‘eh, we hardly didn’t learn any new French words nor French phrases today’. (did you notice you learned the very useful French phrases for ‘very good’, ‘let’s go’ and OK – have a look again at the video!)
In this second of our French language lessons I wanted to emphasize that there is more to learning French than memorizing words out of a French course book:
look and listen to the French person
try to understand basic French words
imagine what he or she wants from you or tries to say to you
act accordingly
answer accordingly when you learn more French words and French phrases in our next course
The only mistakes when speaking and learning French are: closing your ears, mouth and imagination! Other than that: communicate in any way possible!
Listen to the 2 most used words in French and learn how to say hello in French.
This introduction to our free French lessons will teach you about French pronunciation, the French ‘u’ and the French nasal sounds.
Hello in French
In order to help you in learning to speak French well, you need French audio. We recommend the French tapes / French cds from Rocket French (99.95$ with Money Back Guarantee). Listen to the snippet below to say hello in French:
you have to pucker your lips as if giving a kiss and then pronounce the u.
How are you is translated with saying literary : It goes? Ça va?
Notice that Ç , (a c with a 5 underneath) is one of the French ways of depicting an S sound.
Hello how are you in French?
Try to repeat the French audio as is without looking at the transcript of the French audio because… the French writing will confuse you in the beginning! We will explain more in detail below.
Transcript of the French audio:
Good day madam : Bonjour Madame.
Good day sir : Bonjour Monsieur.
Hello Paul, is it going well today : Salut Paul, ça va bien aujourd’hui?
French nasal sounds
French people use "their noses" not only to eat their delicious French food, but also to pronounce what is called "nasal sounds".
Nasal sounds are like trying to speak without opening your mouth and you will feel a kind of humming vibration in your nose!
When a French vowel (a,e,i,o,u) is followed by m or n, the ‘m’ or ‘n’ is silent and the vowel should be pronounced in your nose :
the sound made when kids close there noses to act as if they are speaking on the phone.
Listen and repeat as good as you can, open your mouth as little as possible:
French nasal sounds like un :
un (1)
French nasal sounds like in :
cinq 5), quinze 15), vingt (20)
sounds like en :
trente (30), Henri, Jean, comment (how)
sounds like on :
onze (11), bonjour (good day, hello), bonsoir (good evening), Simon
French greetings
French greetings are the first phrases you can use immediately when learning French.
Equally important are the responses to the greetings. When you have a sharp ear are a master parrot, you French greeting could be just repeating the same phrase as the one you heard when a French person greeted you.
When you learn French in France or travel to France for holidays, you will hear French greetings on a daily basis, so you will internalize them fast. Just go greeting every French person you see in the streets!
How to say hello in French summarized
Casual ‘Hi", ‘Hello’ : Salut
Casual and formal : Bonjour
Notice that what the French write doesn’t look the same as what you hear.
Be aware of French nasal sounds written like "an", "in", "en", "on" and "un".
