Yabla French

Come learn some animal idioms with Manon and Clémentine! They'll show you how cats, dogs, and wolves can help you to improve your everyday French.

Are you a first time Yabla user? Manon and Clementine will walk you through the program and show you how easy it is to use.

Margaux and Manon are playing shop. Margaux is the lucky customer buying shoes and Manon settles for second best, playing the shopkeeper. Now you're all set to go shoe shopping on your next trip to France!

Margaux and Manon recite "The Crow and the Fox," a famous fable by the French poet Jean de La Fontaine, and explain some of the more difficult lines for us. It's a good poem to memorize to improve your French!

Human rights are an important world issue, and children's rights are no exception. In this Yabla exclusive, Marie and Sakhoura list the key points of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Faire (to make or to do) is one of the most basic verbs in the French language, and it is used in a large number of expressions and idioms. Margaux and Manon give us some colorful examples of the uses of faire in this video.

Our charming teachers, Margaux and Manon, will inflict the verb "faire" on you. They did their best to make this grammar lesson on conjugation relatively painless.

Lionel is a true Renaissance man: not only is he a tour guide and a stand-up comedian, but he's also a teacher. In this video, he'll show you how to conjugate the verb avoir (to have) in the present indicative.

Take a class with Lionel as he teaches you colors in French. You'll even learn how to say all the different shades of blue!

In "Dernier jour à San Francisco" (Last Day in San Francisco), the French singer Bertrand Boulbar shares his impressions of the "city by the bay."

Moving further westward, Bertrand Boulbar takes us through the deserts of Nevada in this video for his melancholy song "Je cherche ta voix" (I Seek Your Voice).

The French singer Bertrand Boulbar takes Las Vegas in this music video for his song "De paquebots en épaves" (From Liners to Wrecks). His smoky, deep voice is reminiscent of one of France's most iconic singers, Serge Gainsbourg.

Lionel, the stand-up comedian, punster extraordinaire, surpasses himself with his long string of puns. Catch them if you can! The long-suffering husband of Éléonore, he is not shy about making her the butt of all his jokes.

Bertrand Boulbar has been spending a lot of time in his car lately, traveling across the United States. In "Motor Hotel," he gives us some impressions of the highway: gas stations, truckers, power lines, bad coffee....

Rémy de Bores, an author and publisher, is a very busy man. In this video, he explains the intricacies of his profession and discusses his own books.