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Les Faux Amis — 5 French phrases in 20 seconds
French-English false friends · 5 phrases
A 20-second drill built from our Les Faux Amis chart.
🎬 Watch: 5 phrases from « Les Faux Amis »
🎧 Narrated by a native French speaker · every line read aloud
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🎬 About this short
A 20-second drill on « Les Faux Amis » (French-English false friends): five real phrases, three seconds to guess, then the meaning. Every phrase comes straight from our Les Faux Amis vocabulary chart — open it for the full word list, audio on each line, and a practice quiz.
🔊 The five phrases
Actuellement, j’habite à Paris.Currently, I live in Paris.
Vous avez de la monnaie ?Do you have change?
On va rester à la maison ce soir.We’re going to stay home tonight.
actuellementcurrently (NOT actually = en fait)
attendreto wait (to attend = assister à)
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