150 Essential French Crime, Police and Public Safety Words You Need to Know
French vocabulary for crime and public safety: le crime, la police, le policier, l'enquêteur, le suspect, la victime, le témoin. Covers news coverage, the legal terms behind it and reporting an incident.
French vocabulary for environmental topics: le changement climatique, le réchauffement climatique, l'environnement, la pollution, la durabilité. Covers recycling, renewable energy and the terms used in the news.
French vocabulary for music: la musique, la chanson, le chanteur, le groupe, le concert, la guitare, le piano, la batterie. Covers genres and instruments plus everything around a live show, tickets to encore.
French vocabulary for getting around by road: la voiture, le conducteur, le moteur, le pneu, la roue, le volant, le frein. Plus road signs and traffic rules and the phrases for a petrol station or rental desk.
French vocabulary for everyday technology: le smartphone, l'ordinateur portable, la tablette, le chargeur, la batterie, l'écran, le clavier. Plus apps and accounts and the words for a fault or a setting.
French phrases for situations where hesitation costs time: aidez-moi s'il vous plaît, appelez la police, appelez une ambulance, c'est une urgence. Plus describing what happened and answering the operator.
French academic vocabulary for studying at a French university: université, étudiant, professeur, cours, campus, semestre, diplôme, bourse. Covers lectures and essays plus enrolment, deadlines and campus admin.
French words and phrases pulled from films and series people actually watch: Dix pour cent, Les Choristes, La Haine, Engrenages, Le Bazar de la Charité. Each with the context of the scene it appears in.
French words learners regularly get wrong — beaucoup, croissant, restaurant, heure, oeuf, oeil, fille, famille — grouped by the sound causing the trouble: silent endings, nasal vowels and disappearing liaisons.
French vocabulary for journalism: le journaliste, le reporter, le correspondant, l'envoyé spécial, le rédacteur en chef. Covers press and broadcasting formats and the words for attributing a source in a report.
French vocabulary for international relations, where wording is deliberately precise: la diplomatie, l'ambassadeur, l'ambassade, le consulat, le ministère des Affaires étrangères. Plus treaties and negotiation terms.
French legal terminology as it appears in practice: le droit, la loi, le Code civil, le Code pénal, la jurisprudence, le décret. Covers court procedure, recurring contract clauses and criminal against civil vocabulary.
Whole French sentences from conversations that actually happen: salut comment ça va, je vais bien merci, enchanté, à plus tard, bonne journée. Ready to use as they stand, each with a translation and its context.
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