Marion Sokhi

Short lessons built around one useful thing at a time, with a learner in the room asking the questions you'd want to ask yourself.

Ordinary people answering questions on the street, with French and English subtitles running, so you hear how the language sounds outside a classroom.

The week's news read at a pace you can actually keep up with, and every episode comes with a transcript to read along.

Elsa slows her French to a pace you can hold on to, and spends it on everyday life in France rather than textbook situations.

Johan explains everything in French and never falls back on English, which trains you to stay in the language instead of translating.

Omar Sy's gentleman-thief thriller, plotted tightly enough that you keep following the story even when the French runs ahead of you.

A Paris friendship comedy carried by fast, slangy dialogue, the register you'd hear from friends your own age rather than on the news.

Agents at a Paris talent firm talking over each other at full speed, about as close as television gets to standing in a French office.