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- Session 11 — The questions you actually needWho, when, why, how and how much — the words that turn you from somebody answering questions into somebody asking them. Nearly all of it slots into the question opener you already have, so it costs almost nothing.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free6 min
- Session 10 — Somebody who is not youEvery sentence you have built so far has been about you. Swap one word at the front and they are all about somebody else. Includes the word French actually uses for “we”, which is not the one in the textbooks.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free6 min
- Session 9 — Where things areTwo small phrases that between them let you hold a real exchange with a stranger: how to ask where something is, and how to answer. Plus the word for “the”, which is two words, and shrinks to one letter in front of a vowel.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free7 min
- Session 8 — Asking for thingsEverything so far has been something you do. Now something you can want: naming words, the two little words for “a”, and the one phrase that turns a demand into a request. You end it ordering a coffee properly.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free7 min
- Session 7 — What you are going to doThe future, for free. It is a fourth opener with the same rule as the other three, and you have already said it once without knowing. Then everything from all seven sessions in one long sentence.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free7 min
- Session 6 — Saying what you didThe past, in one move. For every verb you already own, the past sounds exactly like the form you learned — so you can already say it. You get the have part, where it sits, and how the negative wraps around it without a single new rule.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free8 min
- Session 5 — When, and joining it all upThe last free session, and the one where it joins up. Now, today, tomorrow, this evening and here, all of which go on the end and change nothing. Then “and” and “but”, and a sentence with two halves.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free9 min
- Session 4 — AskingTwo ways to turn anything you can say into a question, and the word for “you”, so you can finally talk to somebody other than yourself. The first time a word changes on you — and the reason it does not matter.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free7 min
- Session 3 — Saying noHow to say no. French wraps two pieces around the opener rather than dropping in one word, and once you can do it every sentence you already own flips to its opposite. Plus what people actually say, which is shorter.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free8 min
- Session 2 — More to put after themSix more verbs and a third opener, so the sentences stop being a trick and start being a toolkit. Includes the one that looks exactly like an English word and means something else entirely.A new session is free every week. The whole course, and everything else in the Cocoon French Club, is at https://cocoonfrench.com/hands-free8 min
About Cocoon French — Hands-Free
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Most French courses hand you a phrase and ask you to say it back.
This one hands you the pieces, tells you the rule that joins them, then waits — properly waits — while you build a sentence nobody ever taught you.
No screen. Nothing to read. Nothing to look at. Just a voice in English explaining exactly how French fits together, and a French voice showing you how it sounds: once slowly, then at full speed.
By the end of the first session — six and a half minutes — you say a complete French sentence you were never given. By the fifth you are joining two halves together with “but”.
Built for the car, the gym, the washing-up and the walk to work.
A new session is free here every week. Or hear the whole course today at cocoonfrench.com.