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Le travail in real spoken French

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Le taf, le boulot — how work sounds in the street.

📓 Le vocabulaire de tous les jours

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work (slang)

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to work

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the boss

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a company (slang)

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to graft (very slang)

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to be running late

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the daily grind

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to take a day off

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to be fed up

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pay / money (slang)

🔊 Example sentences

Je vais au taf à vélo.I bike to work.
Il bosse dans une boîte de jeux vidéo.He works at a video-game company.
Chuis à la bourre, on se rappelle !I’m running late, call you back!

💡 Your Native goal

This is how the French actually use it day to day — including what textbooks skip. Absorb the real patterns and let go of over-correctness.

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J’en ai ras le bol de ce boulot.I’m fed up with this job.

✍️ Practice

Je vais au ___ . (work, slang) (taf)

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taf

Il ___ chez Renault. (works, slang) (bosser)

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bosse

Je suis à la ___ ! (running late) (bourre)

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bourre

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