🇫🇷 French
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Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)
Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.
What matters most
Tu (informal) vs vous (formal/plural).
- When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
- Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
Tu es ici.
You are here. (informal)
Vous êtes ici.
You are here. (formal/plural)
On va au café.
We're going to the café. (common spoken French)
Est-ce que vous parlez anglais ?
Do you speak English? (formal/plural)
Mini challenge
Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).
Mini‑quiz
Mini-quiz
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Which sentence matches “You are here. (informal)”?