Conversation Starters ☕️ Phase 2
Intermediate French conversation practice — 40 real dialogues
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Conversation Starters ☕️ Phase 2 — Intermediate French Conversation Practice
🌿 Level: Intermediate (B1) · 🎧 40 episodes
Intermediate French conversation practice, one real question at a time: Phase 2 is 40 B1 dialogues about your worst holiday, your dream job, the last time you got in trouble at work. Longer, more personal exchanges at natural speed, each with a full transcript and colloquial notes. Many episodes are open free — start reading today.
🎧 A word from Amélie
Press ▶️ — 30 seconds, in my voice.
« Bienvenue dans la phase deux des Conversation Starters ! Ici, on passe aux choses sérieuses — enfin, sérieuses... on parle de tes vacances ratées, de ta glace préférée et de la dernière fois que tu as eu des ennuis au boulot ! Les conversations sont plus longues, l’audio est plus rapide — comme dans la vraie vie. C’est exactement le niveau où on arrête de traduire dans sa tête et où on commence à penser en français. Prêt ? Prête ? Allez, viens, on papote ! »
☕️ The level where French becomes a habit
Phase 2 is my favourite moment to watch in a student: it’s where French stops being a subject and starts being a habit. The questions get more personal — your dream job, the last time you got in trouble at work (we’ve all been there) — and the dialogues stretch out and speed up to how people genuinely talk. Somewhere around the middle of this phase, something quietly magical happens: you catch yourself understanding a whole exchange without translating it in your head first. That moment is the entire point of this series.
I like trying to understand real conversation, and that in itself is interesting. I can see you put a lot of time in to make this interesting, and I enjoy it. Thank you.
— Sharon
👀 Who this series is for
You’ve done the basics — Phase 1, French 101, or their equivalent elsewhere — and you can hold a simple exchange. Now you want range: opinions, stories, past tenses that come out on their own.
Who should skip it: brand new to French, or still building your first sentences? Start one level down with French 101 🇫🇷, then come back here.
Not sure this is your level? Find where you fit in a couple of minutes at the 🌱 Start Here page.
📚 What you’ll learn
Every dialogue leaves you with real, spoken French you can drop into your next conversation — the kind that rarely makes it into textbooks. A taste of what’s inside:
métro, boulot, dodo — the Parisian way of describing the daily grind: commute, work, sleep.
bien dans sa peau — feeling content, good about oneself (literally “well in one’s own skin”).
j’ai le cafard — to feel down, to have the blues.
laisse tomber — forget it / never mind.
je m’en fiche — the colloquial way to say “I don’t care.”
pas mal — “not too bad”, used anywhere and everywhere in conversation.
Bref… — in short / anyway — the very French way to cut a long story short.
🧭 How to take this course
Roughly in order — the turns get longer and quicker as you go.
Tell your own version. After each dialogue, answer the question with YOUR story, out loud or in the writing prompt. Borrowed sentences become yours that way.
Lean on the slow audio less and less. By the end of this phase, try natural speed first.
🎬 The episode guide
Forty dialogues of intermediate French conversation practice, roughly in the order they build. The free episodes are open without a subscription; the rest open with a trial.
40 episodes · 🌿 Intermediate (B1) · best taken roughly in order
🌱 Start free
You don’t need a subscription to begin — here are a few episodes to try free, transcript and colloquial notes included:
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✅ Lesson Series Tests
Finished the series? Prove it!
A Phase 2 test is on the way — one short check on exactly what these dialogues teach, so “I think I’m improving” becomes “I know I’m improving.” Watch this space.
🚀 Ready to start?
Finally understand real, spoken French — in months, not years. Phase 2 is where it stops being study and starts being second nature.
Here’s exactly what’s free and what members get:
À très vite dans la première leçon !
Ton prof, ton amie,
Amélie x
Last updated: July 2026 — new episodes join this guide as they publish.