Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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💡 There are many ways of asking questions in French, some more formal than others. When learning French in school, you were probably told that one of the easiest ways to ask questions is to simply invert the sentence by the subject pronoun after the verb.

But did you know that using this in everyday spoken French is an easy giveaway that you’re not a native speaker, or even that you probably haven’t had much opportunity to speak French in a non-formal setting? I’ll explain why in this lesson, and what you can do instead to instantly sound more fluent in your everyday conversations.

0:00 - Intro
0:54 - “Correct French” grammar: inversion
2:39 - Everyday spoken French: never say “As-tu”
4:43 - Four Questions: Practice and exceptions
10:06 - Between formal and informal: “Est-ce que”
13:02 - Practice: Cathedral

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