French With A Twist
Jacob and Claire host a podcast where Jacob learns conversational French from scratch with the help of his French friend Claire, all while enjoying cocktails. The show follows Jacob's journey to fluency, blending language lessons with casual, friendly conversation.
Episodes
50. Brittany Plans & "Modal Verbs (PT1)"
In this week's episode, Claire talks about her plans in Brittany, we announce the brand new LWAT app, and start going through modal verbs in French!---App (for iOS)LeafletsYouTubeWebsiteGoogle Docfrench@languageswithatwist.com
49. School Holidays & "Present Perfect"
In this week's episode, Claire talks about how her school holidays are going so far, we learn how to say "which means", and get stuck into how to use the present perfect in French!---LeafletsYouTubeGoogle DocWebsitefrench@languageswithatwist.com
48. Claire In The Mountains & "Conjunctions"
In this week's episode, Claire talks about her trip to the mountains, we learn how to make imperatives with reflexive verbs, and learn all the most essential conjunctions in French!---LeafletsYouTubeGoogle DocWebsitefrench@languageswithatwist.com
47. Bali Beach Bars & "Prepositions (PT3)"
In this week's episode, Claire gets ready for summer, Jacob talks about his Bali beach life, and we finish off our essential French prepositions!---LeafletsYouTubeGoogle DocWebsitefrench@languageswithatwist.com
46. Claire's MacBook Neo & "Prepositions (PT2)"
In this week's episode, Claire gets a new laptop, Jacob experiences a thunderstorm, and we learn some more essential French prepositions!---LeafletsYouTubeGoogle DocWebsitefrench@languageswithatwist.com
45. Bali & "Prepositions (PT1)"
In this week's episode, Jacob is in Bali and talks about meeting lots of French people in Australian hostels, and we start going through our list of essential prepositions! Hope you enjoy!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc:
44. Horse Riding & Finishing Off Participles
In this week's episode, Claire talks about taking her daughter horse riding and we finally finish off all the participle pairs! You can find notes of everything from this episode in the Google Doc below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc:
43. Skiing In Italy & "The Five Wents"
In this week's episode, Claire goes to Italy, Jacob is moving back to Australia, and we learn five essential uses of "go" in French! You can find all the notes from this episode in the Google Doc below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc:
42. Walking The Dog & "Comparatives (PT2)"
In this week's episode, Claire goes for a walk with her dog in the snow, Jacob gets back from Spain, and we finish off comparatives and superlatives, learning how to say "by far/much/way"! You can find all the notes from this episode in the Google Doc below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click
41. Sleepless Nights & "Comparatives (PT1)"
In this week's episode, Jacob didn't sleep at all thanks to some old ladies getting him drunk, we learn a few more participle pairs, and learn the rules of how to make comparatives and superlatives in French!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: C
40. Claire's Favourite Present & "What Comes Next"
In this week's episode, we talk about Claire's favourite present she got for Christmas, and learn what happens when you have a noun/adjective/preposition + verb!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click HereWebsite: Click Here
39. French Christmas & "Pour"
In this week's episode, we talk about Claire's Christmas, and learn how to use "pour" in the meaning of "in order to" in French!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click HereWebsite: Click Here
38. Passive & Impersonal Sentences
In this week's episode, we learn how to make passive and impersonal sentences in French, as well as have a little chat about Jacob's time in Koh Samui. Hope you enjoy and find the notes of the vocab from this episode in the Google Doc linked below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGo
37. Reverse Perspective Verbs & Participles (PT2)
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire start off with a little chat talking about Jacob's time in Australia, then move on to looking at how to use reverse perspective verbs (e.g. I miss you) in different tenses, and finish off with a few more participles!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
36. Claire's Dog & "Participles" (PT1)
In this week's episode, Jacob is in Bali, Claire talks about her dog, and we learn how to say participle pairs like "disgusted/digusting" in French! As always you can find all the vocab from this episode in the Google Doc linked below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc:
35. More Maldives & "Gerunds (PT2)"
In this week's episode, Jacob tries to tell Claire about his bad hotel experience in the Maldives, and we learn all about what we would say in French when we would use gerunds (ING) in English. It's actually an important topic despite the name so make sure to listen to the whole thing!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click
34. Using "En" & "Y" As Pronouns
In this week's podcast we do a deep dive into how and when to use "en" and "y" as pronouns - which is something used all the time in real life French so we hope you find it useful! You can find all the extra vocab that came up in this episode in the Google Doc, and a summary of all the grammar in our beautiful summary leaflet - both linked below!---Leaflet:
33. Jacob's Trip To England & "Gerunds (PT1)"
In this week's episode, Jacob attempts to tell Claire about his trip to England, we learn how to say "I can't wait to do something" and we learn about French gerunds! You can find all the vocab from this episode in the Google Doc linked below and a summary of all the grammar in our leaflet!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
32. Reverse Perspective Verbs
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire practice making some sentences in different tenses, and learn how and when to use reverse perspective verbs! You can find all the vocab from this episode in the Google Doc below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
31. Reflexive Verbs (PT2)
In this week's episode, we have a deep dive (maybe a bit too deep) into reflexive verbs, and spend way too much time on weird rules about agreement that really don't matter at this stage. But it's all part of the journey! ---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
30. Would, Imperatives & Reflexive Verbs (PT1)
In this week's episode, Jacob learns how to say "would" in French, as well as how to make imperatives. We finish off with a quick intro to reflexive verbs! You can find all the notes from today's episode in the Google Doc linked below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
29. First Ever Conversation & StoryTime
In this week's episode, Jacob attempts to have his first ever mini conversation, then we do some practice of making Perfect Past sentences, and lastly finish off with a bit more of Bob and Bernadette's banana story! You can find the vocab from today's episode in the Google Doc linked below.---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
28. Practice With -RE Verbs & StoryTime
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire practice conjugating some -RE verbs, then continue with StoryTime! You can find all the notes from this episode in the Google Doc below.---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
27. Practice With -IR Verbs
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire practice conjugating a bunch of regular -IR verbs, which Jacob really needed to get the conjugation pattern in his head! A bit of a dry episode, but sometimes that's what's needed to get something in your head!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
26. A Lot Of Swearing & "Falloir"
In today's episode Jacob has a hangover from hell, Claire says "fuck", and we learn how to use "falloir" in every tense!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
25. Imperfect (PT3) & StoryTime
In today's episode we practice making more sentences in the imperfect past, and start our first ever "StoryTime" - turning a silly English story into French using everything we've learnt so far!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
24. Imperfect (PT2) & The Future
In today's episode we learn more imperfect past, as well as learn how to make the future tense! Things are getting real!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
23. Imperfect (PT1)
In this week's episode, we start the imperfect past! We look at how to form it, when to use it, and look at examples with To Be and our key verbs. Hope you enjoy!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
22. Perfect Past (PT3)
In this week's episode, we go through all the verbs we've learnt so far and look at how to make more perfect past sentences with them! A bit dry but so essential to get used to making past tense sentences! We also look at how the perfect past works with a bunch of irregular verb. Hope you enjoy!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click He
21. Perfect Past (PT2)
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire make a bunch of sentences in the perfect past, learn how to use "to be" and "to have" in the past, and even learn the verb "to go" in both present and past. You can find all the sentences in today's episode in the Google Doc below! ---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
20. Perfect Past (PT1)
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire review the top eight verbs you need to conjugate, and practice making sentences that have two verbs next to each other. In the second half of the episode Jacob finally learns the past tense, which is super exciting yay!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
19. This/That, Gender & Prepositions
In this week's episode, we bang through a bunch of easy grammar topics such as "that/that", "prepositions" and how to say "the" - then in the second half of the episode practice making a bunch of sentences!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
18. Relative Pronouns & Making Sentences
In this week's episode, we briefly cover how to say "something that" and "someone who", and then practice making a bunch of sentences using grammar we've already learnt. It's a fun episode so we hope you find it useful!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
17. Stressed Pronouns & Verb Practice
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire go through all the use cases of stressed pronouns, then go through a bunch of verbs seeing how they conjugate and practice making some basic sentences! ---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
16. Irregular Verbs & Restaurant Vocab
In this week's episode, we learn four of the most useful irregular verbs, learn how to say "crazy AF" in French, and go through a bunch of practical restaurant vocab! ---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click HereGoogle Doc: Click Here
15. Possessive Adjectives (PT2), -IR & -RE Verbs
In this week's episode we learn some more basic greetings, learn more possessive adjectives, and learn how to conjugate -IR and -RE verbs as well as learn a bunch of new verbs and practice making sentences with them!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
14. Possessive Adjectives (PT1) & -ER Verbs
In this week's episode we learn how to use possessive adjectives (my, your, his/her etc) and also how to conjugate -ER verbs like "parler". Things are heating up and we're almost able to start saying things so we hope you enjoy!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
13. Indirect Object Pronouns (PT3)
In this episode we finally finish off indirect object pronouns, and thank god for that. You can get the summary of this topic in our awesome leaflet (linked below) and check out the nice condensed videos of this topic on our YouTube page!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
12. Indirect Object Pronouns (PT2)
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire continue going through when and how to use indirect object pronouns, learning a bunch of verbs that are used with them, as well as learning how to add peoples names to sentences that use them! ---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
11. Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns (PT1)
In this week's episode, Jacob and Claire go through how to use direct and indirect pronouns - which is super important to understand properly so we're going to take our time on it and spend the next couple of episodes just fully understanding this topic! You can find the summary of all French pronouns in our beautiful summary leaflet linked below!---Leaflet: Click HereYouTube: Click Here
10. Can & Have To
In this episode we learn how to use "can" and "have to" in French in positive, negative and question sentences. We also learn some essential verbs that you can use with them! You can check out a summary of these topics in our awesome leaflet linked below!---Leaflet: Click Here
9. How To Say "A" in French
This week on French With A Twist, Jacob and Claire go through how to say "a" in French in positive, negative and question sentences and Jacob tries and fails to pronounce "copine" properly.
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8. "À Qui vs De Qui" & Intro To Nouns!
In this episode Jacob and Claire do a final bit of clarification on how to say "whose" and get started with how nouns work in French!
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7. Which One, Whose & What Kind Of
In this episode Jacob and Claire finally finish off the question words by learning how to say "which one/ones", all the ways to say "whose" and also the many version of "what kind of" - plus a lot of other awesomeness. You can see everything in Chapter 1.8 of the Google Doc linked below!
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6. Quoi, Qu'est-ce Que & Comment Ça
In this episode Jacob and Claire go over all the question words again, focusing on ones like "quoi" and "how come" that we haven't covered yet. Find everything in the Google Doc linked below!
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5. Catch Up Week
In this episode Jacob and Claire go over everything we've learnt in the first chapter, do a few more example sentences, and make sure that Jacob understands everything we've done!
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4. There Is/There Are & Question Words
In this episode we learn how to say "there is/there are" in French, as well as the top 12 most frequently used question words and how to use them in real sentences! You can find everything from the episode in the Google Doc linked below!
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3. Questions & "Everybody/Somebody/Nobody"
In this episode we learn the three ways to make questions in French, and also how the words "everybody/somebody/nobody" work in French! Find everything from this episode in the Google Doc linked below!
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2. "To Have" & Negative Sentences
In this episode Jacob learns the verb "Avoir", learns how to speak informally, and learns how to make negative sentences! Find everything from this episode in the Google Doc linked below!
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1. Intro & "To Be"
In the very first episode of French With A Twist we get to know Jacob and Claire and take a deep dive into how to say "to be" in French! Find everything from the episode in the Google Doc linked below!
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