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French Basics: Greetings, Numbers, Days, and Personal Information

Bonjour et bienvenue. We begin with a no-aid baseline check: it is not a lesson to memorize from and it is not graded. Its purpose is to find out whether you already recognize any French and to avoid teaching you things you know.

For this check, please do not use Google Translate, a dictionary, videos, notes, or AI assistance. If you are unsure, guess and add a confidence mark:

  • C = confident
  • G = guess
  • ? = I do not know

You may answer in Arabic or English. Spend about 12–15 minutes, then send your answers in one message.

Learning objective

By the end of this diagnostic segment, we will have an initial measure of your ability to recognize:

  • basic greetings and polite expressions;
  • French numbers;
  • days of the week;
  • common personal-information words used in forms and introductions.

This vocabulary will become essential for real-life situations in Canada: appointments, forms, phone calls, registrations, and early TCF-style comprehension tasks.

Diagnostic: greetings and polite expressions

Write the meaning of each expression in Arabic or English. Add C / G / ?.

  1. Bonjour
  2. Bonsoir
  3. Salut
  4. Au revoir
  5. Merci
  6. S’il vous plaît
  7. Comment allez-vous ?
  8. À demain !

Diagnostic: numbers

Write the numeral represented by each French number. Add C / G / ?.

  1. trois
  2. sept
  3. douze
  4. seize
  5. vingt
  6. trente-deux
  7. soixante
  8. quatre-vingts

A small note for later: French number spelling and pronunciation can look unfamiliar even when the number itself is easy. For this baseline, recognition is all that matters.

Diagnostic: days of the week

Match each French day with its English or Arabic equivalent. Add C / G / ?.

  1. lundi
  2. mardi
  3. mercredi
  4. jeudi
  5. vendredi
  6. samedi
  7. dimanche

Diagnostic: personal information

Translate each word or expression into Arabic or English. Add C / G / ?.

  1. le prénom
  2. le nom
  3. l’âge
  4. la nationalité
  5. le pays
  6. l’adresse
  7. le numéro de téléphone
  8. la profession

How to reply

Please copy this compact format and fill it in:

1. ...
2. ...
3. ...
...
31. ...

Optional note: Have you encountered French before? If yes, where and for approximately how long?

What happens next

I will mark each answer as:

  • known
  • partly known
  • unknown
  • false friend / confusion to track

I will also distinguish a genuine vocabulary gap from a spelling-recognition issue. We will then begin targeted instruction rather than treating this diagnostic as a score to judge you by.

In the next diagnostic segment, we will check a few foundational grammar forms: subject pronouns, articles, and the verbs être and avoir.

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