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Écrire pour être lu vite
Module 15 of the free French course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 18 of 30: Most professional French is skimmed. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 18.
The words
French
English
Say it
lu vite
skim-read
lew VEET
la demande en première ligne
the request in the first line
lah duh-mah(n)d ah(n) pruh-myehr LEENY
mettre en avant
to put up front
mehtr ah(n) nah-VAH(n)
savoir quoi faire
to know what to do
sah-vwahr kwah FEHR
s'arrêter après trois lignes
to stop after three lines
sah-reh-tay ah-preh trwah LEENY
le lecteur pressé
the hurried reader
luh lehk-tuhr preh-SAY
professionnel
professional
proh-feh-syoh-NEHL
la décision de registre
the register decision
lah day-see-zyoh(n) duh ruh-ZHEESTR
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
Most professional French is skimmed, and writing for a skimmer is a register decision. Front-load: the request in the first line, the reasons after.
Et aussi · And also
Une demande, un délai, une pièce jointe — in that order, in the first three lines. Everything else can be read or not read, and a reader who stops after three lines still knows what to do.
Attention · Watch out
Une demande, un délai, une pièce jointe — in that order, in the first three lines. mettre en avant is to put up front; lu vite (skim-read) uses lu, the past participle of lire.
relever — the table
je relève · tu relèves · il/elle relève · nous relevons · vous relevez · ils/elles relèvent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with lu vite.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out relever in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
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.