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.
Feeling shaky? Step back to Le Travail at C2.
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)
Show answer
bourre
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