Learn French: Conflict Resolution

French Learning Accelerator

This episode exposes you to phrases, repeated in English and French, to improve your French vocabulary and help you to express yourself in French.

These episodes are meant to accompany and accelerate your existing French language studies, whether you're using an app like DuoLingo, or you're enrolled in a more formal French class. The more you expose your brain to French audio, the faster you'll learn.

View the full list of English and French phrases in this episode.

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Phrases in this episode:

• I’m really sorry about what happened.
• I take responsibility for my side of the problem.
• I want to resolve this with you.
• I just wanted to see if we can get on the same page about this.
• Let’s take a minute to calm down together.
• Let’s sit down at the table and talk.
• Can you help me to understand what the problem is, as you see it?
• Let me repeat back to you what I heard you say.
• I just want to make sure I’m understanding you.
• I think I understand where you’re coming from.
• Let’s start with what we agree on.
• I just wanted to clarify some things I didn’t understand.
• I think we both feel the same way about this.
• Maybe there’s a way to work this out so we can both get what we want.
• I agree with you about this, but not about that.
• Thank you for helping me to understand your point of view.
• I’m sorry that you feel that way.
• Do you have a suggestion of what we can do differently going forward?
• I really value your friendship, and I don’t want this to come between us.