Ordering a coffee (Advanced): The size of coffee you want.

💬 Vous faites ... ? "Do you do ...?" is an easy way to ask what's on offer. Try Vous faites du thé ? "Do you do tea?"

🇫🇷 Traditional cafés often have no size menu at all. Large takeaway cups are mostly found in chains and newer coffee shops.

🇫🇷 Chains like Starbucks are where you'll find small, medium and large sizes. In a neighbourhood café, the menu goes by drink type instead.

💬 Putting le in front of plus grand turns "bigger" into "the biggest." It works the same way with other describing words: le plus fort "the strongest."

💬 French often names the topic first and then picks it back up with c'est. For example, Le moins cher, c'est le café "The cheapest is the coffee."

💬 Both p sounds are spoken, but the final s is silent: (ah puh pray).

💬 The plural s is silent, so deux expressos sounds just like the singular apart from the z link: (duh-zex-preh-so).

💬 Tasse is a feminine word, so grand becomes grande with an added e. That e makes the d audible: (grahnd).

💬 L' means "it" and goes before the action word, not after it. It joins the next word and never appears alone.

🇫🇷 This is about as close as a traditional café gets to a large black coffee. It's a useful order to know when there's no size menu.

💬 Ce serait possible ? is a soft, polite way to ask for something extra. You can tack on any request after it with avec "with."

💬 After un peu, use de and drop du or le. So you say un peu de lait, never un peu du lait.

💬 The t in pot is silent: (poh).

🇫🇷 Cafés commonly bring milk for a black coffee this way, served on the side for you to add yourself.

🇫🇷 The price can differ depending on your answer, and in a traditional café, drinking at the counter is cheapest. You can reply with just sur place or à emporter.

🇫🇷 In a sit-down café you usually pay at the end, and this is how you'd ask. You may need to catch the server's eye first, since the bill rarely arrives unprompted.

💬 Prices drop the word for cents: trois euros quarante is €3.40. The s of trois links to euros: (trwah-zuh-roh).