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Phone calls in French are hard. Not because your French is bad, but because every support you normally rely on disappears: no body language, no facial expressions, no time to think. Even learners who have lived in France for years still describe picking up the phone as the moment everything falls apart.

In this video, I'm sharing the 4-part structure that every French phone call follows, the phrases that keep you grounded when your comprehension starts to slip, and three complete real-life calls you can listen to and practice with: booking a restaurant, recovering a lost item from a hotel, and warning a gîte host that you're running late. Once you know the structure, you stop feeling like you're at the mercy of wherever the call goes, and you start feeling in control of it.

À très vite !

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0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Why phone calls are so much harder
2:38 - The anatomy of a French phone call
4:10 - The essential phone phrases
16:14 - Phone call 1, Booking a restaurant
19:45 - Phone call 2, Retrieving a lost item from a hotel
23:50 - Phone call 3, Warning a gîte host you'll arrive late

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Géraldine

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