Read French. Actually enjoy it.
Two short stories a week, written to be understood — not decoded. Every one comes with the audio, a quiz, the full English translation and a grammar lesson.
Plus the entire archive of more than a hundred stories, and a 52-page printable kit that lands in your inbox the moment you join.
No charge for 14 days. Cancel any time.
More than a hundred stories, open from day one
Every story published since 2024, yours to read in any order. Each one is a few hundred words of everyday French set somewhere real — a market in Nîmes, a pétanque game in Marseille, an oyster hut on the Atlantic coast — with the audio, a five-question quiz, the full English translation and a short grammar lesson underneath.
Nothing to install. It all arrives by email, and it all stays on the website for whenever you want to go back.
Le Kit du Membre — 52 pages, made to be printed
This is not a PDF you skim on a screen and forget. It is designed for paper: large type, generous margins, one idea per page. Print the whole thing, or just the pages you like. A printer and a pair of scissors will do.
What's inside
Ten stories, set for paper
Ten favourites from the archive, typeset properly, with the vocabulary printed in the margin beside the line it appears on. You never have to stop reading to look a word up.
Forty-eight flashcards
Cut them out, fold once, and you have a double-sided deck. French on one side, English and a real sentence from a story on the other.
Six sheets for the fridge door
The present tense. The passé composé. Numbers, dates and the time. Ordering in a café. Bonjour, and when to use vous. And the false friends that catch everyone.
Puzzles built from your own stories
Two crosswords, two word searches and a fill-in-the-blank — every answer a word you have already met in one of the stories. Answer keys at the back.
There is also a reading log to tick off as you work through the archive, and answer keys for every puzzle at the back; so nothing is left unresolved.
Four things underneath every story
The audio. Recorded at natural pace, with a speed control if you want it slower.
A five-question quiz. Quick, no marking, just to check it went in.
The full English translation. For the sentence you couldn't quite crack.
A short grammar lesson. What just happened, and why — in plain English.
And once a week, a longer intermediate story for when you're feeling braver.
Why this works
You learn a language by understanding things, not by memorising them. That is the whole idea behind La Minute Française: stories pitched just below the edge of your ability, so you follow them without a dictionary and pick the language up on the way.
Ten minutes a day, comfortably understood, beats an hour of struggling.
Fourteen days, free
The archive opens the moment you start. The kit arrives in your inbox the same day. If it isn't for you, cancel before day fourteen and you won't be charged a thing.
$7 a month, or $64 a year. Cancel any time.
