📖LearnModule 14 · Lesson 17 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, continuedUnit 4 · Les langages professionnels
La médecine
Module 14 of the free French course (CEFR C2, continued), lesson 17 of 30: You will read medical French before you ever write it, a result, a leaflet, a discharge letter. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 17.
The words
French
English
Say it
le traitement
the treatment
luh treht-MAH(n)
le diagnostic
the diagnosis
luh dyahg-nohs-TEEK
les effets secondairesplural
the side effects
lay zeh-feh suh-goh(n)-DEHR
la posologie
the dosage
lah poh-zoh-loh-ZHEE
le bilan sanguin
the blood test
luh bee-lah(n) sah(n)-GA(n)
bénin
benign
bay-NA(n)
malin
malignant
mah-LA(n)
la notice
the patient leaflet
lah noh-TEES
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
You will read medical French before you ever write it — a result, a leaflet, a discharge letter. Le traitement, le diagnostic, les effets secondaires, la posologie (the dosage), le bilan sanguin.
Et aussi · And also
Bénin and malin are the pair that matters and they are not intuitive: bénin is harmless, malin is malignant — and malin also means clever in ordinary French, so context does all the work.
Attention · Watch out
bénin is harmless and malin is malignant — but malin also means clever in everyday French (il est malin), so read the context. la notice is the patient leaflet, not a notice.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with le traitement.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 17 in Module 14 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.