Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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💡 You’ve probably already picked up on this if you’ve been engaging in French conversation or watching French TV shows, but spoken French is almost an entirely different language than technical written French. And that “different language” has its own set of unwritten rules!

If you want to see the fastest possible improvement in your French fluency — specifically your ability to speak and understand French — it’s important to learn the specifics of spoken French… and ignore pretty much everything else. That’s why my lessons are focused on teaching you everyday spoken French, including shortcuts to help you make progress faster.

In this lesson, I’ll tell you more about one of those unwritten rules: the fact that we drop the “ne” in spoken French (most of the time). Learning these rules is one thing, but adapting them is another. That’s why we’ll also do plenty of practice exercises together!

0:00 - Intro
0:44 - “Correct” grammar : ne… pas
2:51 - Informal French: Drop the “ne”
4:00 - Informal French: Cutting “Je” and “Tu”
5:37 - Practice with me
7:45 - Final test

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At Comme une Française, we specialize in everyday spoken French. We focus on three unique aspects that are different from school French, self-study books, Duolingo, etc:
1. We focus only on the specifics of speaking/understanding/being understood in everyday French and have unique ways to help you learn it properly & faster.
2. We focus on shortcuts to help you make progress faster, which also means we tell you exactly what you can stop learning to prioritize what’s really important.
3. We use French culture as the subject to make it fun and interesting for adults.

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😘 from Grenoble, France.

Géraldine