Mastery
339 self-paced lessons: Legal, medical and business French, idioms and proverbs, humour and wordplay, rhetoric, debate and negotiation, and writing about history, science, art and ideas.
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Le Français Juridique et Administratif, Part 1 of 7
Who is who in a legal document (le soussigné, le bailleur, le preneur, le mandant, le mandataire, l'ayant droit) and the frozen formulas that open and close it.
Le Français Juridique et Administratif, Part 2 of 7
The French courts (tribunal judiciaire, cour d'appel, Cour de cassation, Conseil d'État) and the people of justice, from the magistrat and the procureur to the greffier, the notaire and the commissaire de justice.
Transformations: Du Jargon Juridique au Français Clair
Turn legal sentences into plain French and plain French back into legal style without losing precision: nouns into verbs, il appartient à into c'est à vous de, nonobstant into malgré.
Le Français Juridique et Administratif, Part 3 of 7
Administrative acts from the loi to the circulaire, the anatomy of an arrêté (vu, considérant, arrête, article 1er) and the formulas of official letters (j'ai l'honneur de, je vous saurais gré de).
Word Web: Qui Est Qui dans un Procès
Sort the people of a trial: demandeur and défendeur in a civil case, plaignant and partie civile, prévenu vs accusé, mis en examen, témoin, juré and the lawyers on each side.
Mastery Check: Legal and Administrative French, Part 1 of 2
A demanding check on parties, courts and administrative acts, applied to three new documents: a summons, a municipal order and a contract preamble.
Contrast Clinic: Jugement, Arrêt, Ordonnance, Décision
Words a layperson uses as synonyms and a lawyer keeps apart: un jugement, un arrêt, une ordonnance, une décision, un verdict, and their verbs (rendre, prononcer, casser, interjeter appel).
Real-World Mission: Écrire à la Mairie
Write the formal letter that accompanies a déclaration préalable de travaux: objet, references, je soussigné(e)... ai l'honneur de, justification, pièces jointes and the full closing formula to Madame la Maire.
Unit 1 review: Legal & Administrative French
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "Legal & Administrative French", then translate three sentences.
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