Meeting date's friends: Introducing yourself to your date's friends

💬 French uses the present tense here: literally "You know Léa since a long time?". With depuis, something still going on stays in the present.

💬 Le lycée is a false friend: it means high school, not a university or college.

💬 After de you use toi, not tu: parler de toi "talk about you". Same with moi: de moi "about me".

💬 Literally "ah good?", but Ah bon ? just means "Really?" or "Oh yeah?", showing mild surprise.

🇫🇷 A light, playful reply when told someone's been talking about you; it's the expected bit of teasing modesty in this moment.

💬 T'inquiète is a spoken shortcut for Ne t'inquiète pas "Don't worry"; the "not" part is simply dropped.

🇫🇷 Very casual, fine among friends at a party but too relaxed for formal settings.

💬 The final s is silent: (vyan).

💬 Putting d'où at the end is how people actually ask this in conversation. The textbook version, D'où viens-tu ?, sounds stiff.

💬 Unlike most French words, the final t here is usually pronounced: (oh-fet).

💬 Nationalities take no capital letter and no un here. A woman says Je suis anglaise, with the s now sounded.

💬 Use à before a city: J'habite à Paris. Countries usually take en instead, as in en France.

💬 Te goes before the verb: je te présente is literally "I to-you introduce". Swap in a name: Je te présente Marc "This is Marc".

🇫🇷 Your date's friend taking you round to meet everyone is a warm sign of welcome; expect a round of greetings or cheek kisses with each person.

💬 Sympa is short for sympathique and means nice or kind, not sympathetic.