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French, to the standard of the room you will stand in.
Liaison, and the price of a wrong register.
French is the language where a single dropped liaison announces that you learned it from an app. Corrections arrive in writing here by default, so you can see the shape of the sentence before you have to say it in front of anyone. Marguerite takes the salon; Vésinet takes the meeting.
The traps
- the liaison you skip and the one you invent
- vous against tu in a room that has already decided
- the conditional used as politeness rather than doubt
The rooms
A dinner where you must compliment and decline
Compliment the host sincerely, decline the second helping without insulting the kitchen.
A market and a price
Ask the price, question it politely, and settle without irritation on either side.
A phone call with poor line quality
Keep a call alive when you cannot hear, without apologising for existing.
The tutors
Marguerite
AI tutorSalon, literary
Dry, precise, quietly amused
Corrects: Written correction preferred
Vésinet
AI tutorCommercial, boardroom
Cool, brisk
Corrects: Blunt but never shaming