📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 27 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 6 · Les tâches B2
La lettre de protestation
Module 9 of the free French course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 27 of 30: The protest letter is the complaint from Module 2 grown up. 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 27.
The words
French
English
Say it
je me permets de vous signaler
I wish to point out to you
zhuh muh pehr-meh duh voo see-nyah-LAY
de bien vouloir
to be so kind as to
duh bya(n) voo-LWAHR
dans l'attente de votre réponse
awaiting your reply
dah(n) lah-tah(n)t duh vohtr ray-POH(n)S
la protestation
the protest
lah proh-tehs-tah-SYOH(n)
signaler
to report (a fact)
see-nyah-LAY
le règlement
the regulations
luh rehgl-MAH(n)
la demande précise
the specific request
lah duh-mah(n)d pray-SEEZ
courtois
courteous
koor-TWAH
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
The protest letter is the complaint from Module 2 grown up. It states the facts, names the rule that was broken, and asks for one specific thing, in that order and in the formal register.
Et aussi · And also
Je me permets de vous signaler que... opens it without aggression. Je vous demande de bien vouloir... makes the request. Dans l'attente de votre réponse closes it before the formula.
Attention · Watch out
je me permets de vous signaler opens a protest without aggression; de bien vouloir softens the request; dans l'attente de votre réponse comes before the closing formula.
vouloir, futur simple — the table
je voudrai · tu voudras · il/elle voudra · nous voudrons · vous voudrez · ils/elles voudront
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with je me permets de vous signaler.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out vouloir, futur simple 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.