A French slang conversation 📱 – analysed

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There’s nothing worse than learning standard French for months and realise only when you arrive in France that you can’t understand because they don’t use standard French.
 
So here is a short French slang conversation, with 4 important French slang terms you should know if you are learning French.
 
But it’s not any slang. It’s slang that YOU can use without fearing being rude. What I like to call ‘ok-to-use’ slang. 
 
You can use those in a conversation, with friends, without fearing being too much.
 
Imagine….
 
PS: I brought my phone banana A-game in this article! Don’t be too impressed…
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Quoi de neuf?

Your friend is calling you, you haven’t spoken to each others in a few weeks, and you’re glad to get a call from her.
 
After the initial ’Salut! Comment ça va? Ça va bien et toi?’
 
She asks:
 

‘Alors, quoi de neuf?’

 
It doesn’t look like a normal French question, it’s a bit too short. Must be slang… What does it mean?
 
Well it means ‘What’s new?’
 
Quoi de neuf?
 
Literally : What of new?
 
You can then answer this question by everything that is new in your life since the last time she called.
 
Like your brother’s new girlfriend, or your own romantic adventures.
 
Or a new pickle recipe.
 
Or something new you did at work.
 
Or a project you are about to start.
 
Let’s say you have nothing new to say.
 
And you can then answer back:
 
Et toi? Quoi de neuf?

Une meuf / un mec

Let’s say your friend doesn’t have news about herself.
 
But about someone else.
 
 
About:
Julien, le mec de ma cousine.
 
Who now?
 
 
Julien, le mec de ma cousine.
 
Julien, ok
 
Cousine, ok
 
But mec?
 
 
Mec is slang for man.
 
The feminine equivalent being meuf.
 
 
It can either mean : a man. 
 
Or : her man.
 
In other words, her boyfriend.
 
Le mec de ma cousine.
 
Is my cousin’s boyfriend.
 
 
Aaaah yes! You remember now, you talked about him last time.
 
You friend told you that her cousin was engaged to a rich man.
 
Must be him!

Le fric.

Yes, so what about him?
 
What happened?
 
 
Well.
 
Il a perdu tout son fric.
 
Perdre : to lost.
 
Now, what did he lose?
 
 
Fric?
 
What’s that?
 
Fric is money.
 
Cash.
 
It’s one of the many words French people use to refer to money.
 
 
Oh no, so he lost all his money!
 
Il a perdu tout son fric.
 
How should you react?

La vache!

I would opt for La Vache!
 
La vache!
 
Means literally – the cow.
 
And it’s the equivalent of the English – holy cow!
 
 
La vache!
 
You can say this when something sounds very big, very surprising.
 
Positive or negative, it doesn’t matter.
 
But it needs to be a reaction to something big.
 
 
In our situation, if someone rich loses all his money – it is!
 
 
La vache!

Read again this French slang conversation

Salut! Ça ca?
Ça va et toi?
Ça va, quoi de neuf?
Rien, et toi? Quoi de neuf?
Julien, le mec de ma cousine a perdu tout son fric.
La vache!
 
 
Now that’s a good introduction, but what about all the other French slang?
 
If you want to get serious about learning informal French – I have something for you.
 
A few months ago, I had a student who was learning French slang. BUT She had trouble finding the balance between what was rude and what was ok to use.
 
So I put together a list of French slang for her, where I gave her 99 French slang that are ok to use.
 
It’s not rude slang, or anything like this and most of the sentences you can use with friends.
 
I decided then to package it, adding audio to it, and it’s now on the school.
 
It’s a sentence pack of French slang. A sentence pack is really an ebook and audio files with sentences.
 
It’s designed for intermediates who want to become fluent, and who want to use and understand casual and informal French.
 
This week, you can get it with a $10 discount. But only until the 31th of October.

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